{"id":68449,"date":"2023-04-09T04:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=68449"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:36:47","slug":"students-try-crazy-ideas-to-solve-big-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/students-try-crazy-ideas-to-solve-big-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Students try crazy ideas to solve big problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUDENTS from three Geelong schools have pitched some of their crazy ideas to create some crazy good solutions to improve the community.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Crazy Ideas College, the second year of the Geelong Social Innovators program saw Year 9 students from Clonard College, Geelong High School and St Joseph&#8217;s College gather at Geelong Tech School for the two-day session last week.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with brainstorming on paper and creating prototypes with cardboard, string and tape, the small groups of students refined their ideas and pitched them to a panel of 11 community partners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98863 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_4562_51844-1-600x380.jpg?_t=1680694364\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A team from Clonard College work on their idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they&#8217;re doing is generating programs, products or services that enrich the lives of their fellow citizens or the community,&#8221; Crazy Ideas College founder Zoe Burrows said during the session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So they&#8217;ve started by thinking about &#8216;What&#8217;s something I care about or I&#8217;m interested in?&#8217; and then they&#8217;ve generated lots and lots of ideas that solve that challenge, and they&#8217;ve selected one of those ideas as their &#8216;Big Idea&#8217;, and we then scale those &#8216;Big Ideas&#8217; down into what we call a &#8216;Smart Start Experiment&#8217; to think about what we can do to get moving right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the Big Ideas typically fell into at least one of four themes: enhancing health and wellbeing, promoting care for the environment, fostering community connectedness and reimagining learning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98865\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_4605_09180-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students create prototypes for their Big Ideas &#8211; this is a team from St Joseph&#8217;s College with &#8220;The Chire&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crazy ideas generated this week include a hybrid chair\/bike for the classroom, a bin that tracks what is put inside it to better manage waste, an app that shows the affects of illicit drugs on the body, and a bus service to move young people around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know a lot of our young people essentially don&#8217;t have the blinkers on that adults do, and they come up with I guess you could say unusual solutions to really big problems,&#8221; Ms Burrows said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hence, they&#8217;re a great starting point for coming up with these big, innovative solutions to help us think a little bit differently about how we address challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crazy Ideas College will now work directly with each of the three schools to progress the Smart Start Experiments, which could ultimately become fully realised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In previous years, we&#8217;ve had a big focus on bringing these ideas to life,&#8221; Ms Burrows said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98859\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98859\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/IMG_4525_91186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Geelong Social Innovators program was held at the Geelong Tech School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, we have a team of girls that generated an idea about removing single-use plastic from supermarkets and using a compostable bag with seeds in it, you plant it and it grows &#8211; that&#8217;s in multiple IGA supermarkets in Ballarat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A team received $10,000 to bring a Pride Weekend to life, we&#8217;ve had a podcast launched, we&#8217;ve had a YouTube series, letter writing to nursing homes, an exercise program for primary schools&#8230; 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