School children to build sensors for PDA environment
Date published: 25 July 2016
Townsville school students will work with science, technology and industry experts next week to design and construct cutting edge sensors and learn how to monitor the environment in the CBD.
The Global Tropics Future Project is a partnership between Townsville City Council, Education Queensland and James Cook University to develop and enrich learning opportunities for regional and remote students in North Queensland.
The students will learn about a range of science, electronics and coding and data analysis to measure around the Townsville CBD Priority Development Area (PDA) environment.
Workshops with about 70 students from years 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 will be held on Monday and Tuesday, July 25 and 26 from 8am-4pm.
Participating schools are:
* Thuringowa State High School
* Townsville State High School
* Kelso State School
* Rasmussen State School
* Weir State School
* Willows State School
* Rollingstone State School
