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    IMPRESSED: Soloman Sabbo of Stawell with Beacon Holiday Program’s Sara White, dive into the world of emerging technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality at The Station in Horsham. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Virtually solving problems on school holidays

Children learned to solve the world’s problems around sustainability through the use of emerging technologies in a school holiday virtual reality experience at Horsham’s The Station.

The Beacon Holiday Program was presented by Sara White across four days last week.

“The kids are exploring the sustainability goals from the UN, looking at real-world problems, trying to solve those real-world problems and creating solutions,” she said. 

“We use a variety of VR videos, we use augmented reality merge cubes as well, to look at content and then create content too. 



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“The kids are also using a program called CoSpaces, where they get to actually create their own virtual world.”

Participants used simple block coding and demonstrated their solutions in the realms of land, air and sea.

“We’re also showing the kids what a career in engineering could look like, while giving them a little bit of context of some of the sustainability goals and issues around the world.”

Nine-year-old Solomon Sabbo of Stawell said he wanted to do virtual reality experiences more often.

“I think it’s amazing – I just checked it out with the phone and it was like molten lava,” he said.

“I want to be an engineer, like a scientist engineer that does tech. I want to be able to make cool tech and have fun with it.”

The program was sponsored by Lumination in partnership with BAE Systems Australia.

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