To partner with the new facility and embed these skills, the College has rewritten significant parts of its curriculum. Students from particular year levels are provided ‘week-long immersive experiences’ where they are taught skills relating to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3D printing and animation. They are presented with real-world problems and given opportunities to apply their newly developed skills by solving them. Additional courses, with a more significant focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, are also available.
Key partnerships with the University of South Australia, corporate and other tertiary providers have been established. Mentoring programmes, where local industry experts partner with students to commercialise student led innovations, have begun.
Co-curricular use of the new resource through robotics, engineering, e-gaming and coding clubs are all incorporated into the new facility.
Trinity has embraced a path to clearly establish the qualities and capabilities they want their graduates to possess in order to flourish in society beyond school.
“We will embrace a teaching programme and provide school experiences which will deliver ethical values and capabilities for all. Our pedagogy will more seamlessly move beyond the silos of subjects and become more multi-disciplinary and project-based. Our aim is to provide students with an outstanding academic foundation and the skills to follow their passions at and post school. The Trinity Innovation and Creativity School will be a key component in enabling this reinvention.” Mr Hately said.
Many parents have come to explore the new building and all have been excited by the increasing opportunities available for their sons and daughters.
These are exciting times for Trinity College.