SMart TRak: Innovation Generation
REGISTRATION FOR THE YOUTH SUMMIT IS NOW CLOSED
SMart TRak is a four day convention for gifted and talented students aged between 8 and 20 years. The program provides opportunities for creative thinking, critical thinking, problem solving and team work - all skills relevant in a world of dramatic change and possibility.
The first day will involve participants being inspired by an opening keynote speaker, Professor Nick Klomp who will share insights into the world of inventing, science and investigation. The students will have the opportunity to get to know each other and form project teams for the following days where the teams will begin to learn about the process of inventing.
Day two will see participants meeting inventors, learning the finer details of problem solving and investigating the process of inventing in a series of short seminars led by experienced inventors and creative thinkers.
By day three, the teams will be ready to invent - choosing a particular category of invention, identifying the problem they aim to solve and sharing critical review sessions that will refine their thoughts and provide both peer and mentor review.
On the final day, each team will present their invention to a panel of reviewers and an audience of local youth for review and comment.
Mixed in with the serious program will be sessions that challenge the humour and quick thinking of our gifted youth that place them in spontaneous inventing and build confidence in thinking.
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