About this opportunity
Our regular volunteering sessions are on Wednesday mornings from 9:30am to 12pm, at our nursery in Aranda. This group help out with seasonal nursery tasks such as weeding, propagating, and thinning our native seedlings. We also provide morning tea as a thank you and social catch up. If you are available to attend our Wednesday group, please see staff when you arrive and they will be able to show you around. It is also advisable to come along around 10am on your first day, so they have set up tasks for other volunteers and will then have the time to show you around properly. For safety reasons, it is a requirement to wear a hat and sturdy closed toe shoes to these sessions. Long pants and long sleeves, are also recommended. Some lifting and standing for long periods, may be required. You do not need any experience just a love of nature and the outdoors. If you come along to these sessions, there is also the potential to be able to join our Thursday 'Green...
St John ACT is partnering with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to provide services and support to help young people avoid the risk of late night alcohol fuelled violence in Civic. Operating every Friday and Saturday night from 10pm-4am in the bus interchange, CBR NightCrew tent provides a place where young people can rest their feet, hydrate, charge their phones, access first aid and arrange transport home. We will also have roving helpers in the nearby area. While first aid qualifications and experience are useful, they are not necessary for this volunteering role. A desire to support and help young people and an ability to engage with them is much more important. Some of the activities involved in a shift include: * roaming civic engaging with youth and others out at night * handing out thongs to those without appropriate footwear * providing drinking water * de-escalating situations by providing a listening ear * giving directions * manning a safe space where people can...
Rotary Adventure in Citizenship (RAIC) is an intensive and fun filled week-long program to help prepare young adults for full participation as citizens of Australia. Each year around 35 Year 11 students (the delegates) are sent by their local Rotary clubs to Canberra. They are taken out of their comfort zones into new places, set amongst new faces and asked to do new things. For a week, RAIC puts the delegates "inside" Canberra. Run in partnership with the Parliamentary Education Office the delegates are immersed behind the scenes in Parliament House. They view Parliament in action, including the Budget speech and Question Time, meet their Federal member of parliament and Press Gallery journalists. Through role play, delegates participate in law-making debates and explore the functions of the Parliament. One of the highlights is having morning tea with the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. And most importantly, they meet and make friends...
Crimson Education
New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory
The UNSW School Mathematics Competition has been run each year since 1962. It is open to participation by secondary school students in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is run in two divisions: Junior, up to and including Year 10; and Senior, Years 11 and 12.
The competition is designed to assess mathematical insight and ingenuity rather than efficiency in tackling routine examples. Students are encouraged to enter the competition if they are able to make some progress towards the solution of at least one of the past problems. The competition is a three-hour open-book exam. Entrants are allowed to take any books and materials, but not computers with Internet connections, into the examination.
Each year, about 700 students participate, 300 in each division, and prizes and/or certificates are awarded to about 60 in each division. In recent years, the UNSW School Mathematics Competition has served as one of the selectors for the Australian team in the...