By Lachlan Ellis<\/p>\n
Just 83 VCE and VCE VET design students have been selected, out of hundreds of entries, in this year\u2019s Top Designs showcase \u2013 and two are from Moorabool.<\/p>\n
John Cusmano and Cooper Pitts study Systems Engineering at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, and the two young men will have their work on display at the prestigious Melbourne Museum.<\/p>\n
Around 900 applications were received from public, independent, and Catholic schools across Victoria, making the two students\u2019 achievement an incredible feat.<\/p>\n
But despite both sinking more than 100 hours into their respective designs, both were humbled by their selection by the exhibition\u2019s expert panel.<\/p>\n
Mr Cusmano created a device which sweeps an area for precious metals using GPS location, while Mr Pitts designed a system that reduces vibration transfer from a shelf to a floating, self-levelling platform \u2013 a particularly useful system to stop record players from skipping when records are playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was watching a TV show and I saw people fossicking in the Australian outback\u2026I saw them dealing with heatstroke and safety concerns. I wanted to design a solution that made it safer for them, while maintaining the rush of discovering something and finding something special,\u201d Mr Cusmano told the Moorabool News.<\/p>\n
\u201cI map out a couple of points through GPS, and the brain of the device calculates where it needs to go. It traverses that path trying to detect for gold, and once it finds it, it\u2019ll drop a flag and continue on, so the person can come back later and dig it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lachlan Ellis Just 83 VCE and VCE VET design students have been selected, out of hundreds of entries, in this year\u2019s Top Designs showcase \u2013 and two are from Moorabool. John Cusmano and Cooper Pitts study Systems Engineering at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, and the two young men will have their work on display at […]<\/p>\n