Location: | Wurundjeri Country, 33 Cooper Street, Epping VIC |
Status: | Complete |
Awards: |
Learning Environments Australasia Awards 2020 - Best New Facility under $8m Learning Environments Australasia (Vic Chapter) Awards 2019 - Best New Facility under $8m |
Whittlesea Tech School (WTS) is part of a 10-school initiative by the State Government, which is focused on developing critical STEM skills in Victorian secondary students. Located on the Melbourne Polytechnic Epping Campus, the new facility functions as an innovative learning hub, connecting 10,000 secondary students from 14 schools in the region to a technology-rich and industry-focused learning framework to prepare them for the jobs of the future.
WTS features outdoor and indoor, formal and casual, practical production and high-tech equipment spaces that are linked together to create a seamless project-based learning journey that prioritises exploration and presentation over repetition and examination.
When students walk through the front doors of Whittlesea Tech School they will enter a new world. A world of 3D printers and scanners, laser cutters, digital music composition equipment and all the other tools of tomorrow. A world where technology, imagination and innovation merge to create new solutions to old problems. A world where breaking with conventional wisdom is not only encouraged but it is expected. And a world where emersion in modern tech, gives rise to creative inspiration, unexpected discoveries and just as crucially an enormous amount of fun.