Over the course of 2018, 16 FLEET members visited or hosted 22 schools, engaging students with relevant issues such as information and technology (ICT) energy use, how transistors work and the new fields of science studied at FLEET.
Our visiting scientists were kitted out with an outreach toolkit developed in-house, including mechanical digicomputers to demonstrate binary operations, two-dimensional (2D) material demonstrations, an electronics card game and virtual reality viewers.
FLEET hosted lab tours in a very fruitful partnership with the new Monash Tech School, which provides hands-on science experiences for participating secondary students. During 2018, over 200 teachers and students from 10 schools were shown through FLEET labs by
young Centre researchers.
Targeting students from remote schools, who do not get the opportunity to visit urban universities, FLEET also collaborated with others to create a virtual tour of FLEET labs.