The Manufacturing Team Challenge was designed to focus on the importance of teamwork and the whole team dynamics that a real-life working situation involves. The challenge highlights the matching of individual’s skills within the team, as well as developing ‘soft skills’ such as communication, teamwork and problem solving to complete the exercise to various criteria. The competition places equal importance on both skill sets and shows MTC is a multi-faceted skill challenge that results in highly productive team players.

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Koori Job Ready run an eight-week intensive course in construction and hospitality for Aboriginal people in Darlington near Redfern. Beyond training, they negotiate jobs, traineeships and apprenticeships for their graduates and mentor them while they transition into the world of employment. 

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The Green Team project is a sustainability initiative which has been developed and implemented by WorldSkills Australia, the Dusseldorp Skills Forum and ARUP. The sustainability project was launched at the 2008 WSA National competition and then renewed at the 2010 Nationals in Brisbane.

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Noosa Flexible Learning Centre is spart of the Edmund Rice Australia group of flexible Learning Centres which cater for the growing number of young people who are seeking an alternative pathway to mainstream education. No school rules... just a set of four core principles that are the foundation of all Edmund Rice Flexible Learning  Centres. Listen to the students talk about why this works for them.

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Jack Thompson AM presents a new short documentary dealing with the hidden crisis of wasted potential with 16% of Australian teenagers not in full time education or work. More Australians leave school at 16 than in most other OECD countries. He introduces the school engagement program, Hands On Learning, the hook that that has kept hundreds of students at school. Early school leaving costs Australia over $2.6 Billion each year, so it's time to give schools dedicated funding so they can all run programs like Hands On Learning that we know work, to prevent kids dropping out of school and missing out on an education that holds the key to their successful futures.

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Central Coast Alesco is part of a small network of ALESCOs operating in NSW . The Central Coast program cater for Year 9 students at the Berkeley Vale campus and Year 10 students at Green Central at Kariong. It offers a smaller, supportive, and  non-competitive, environment. Listen to what the students have to say...

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A 3-minute video that explains how the igreen home sustainability program works: a snapshot of the training, the work experience and the benefits from a range of stakeholder perspectives.

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DSF is partnering with Dare to Lead and the Ernabella Anangu School to develop a form of industry / employment in a remote indigenous community that offers local jobs that provides real pathways from school to work.

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Under the guidance of the lead auditor, ARUP, the Green Team conducted interviews with each of the skill areas and gathered data that will become part of the Environmental Audit Report and establish benchmarks for improvement.

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Under the guidance of the lead auditor, ARUP, the Green Team conducted interviews with each of the skill areas and gathered data that will become part of the Environmental Audit Report and establish benchmarks for improvement.

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