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Today Australia is going through a 1000 year drought. Water is becoming a rare resource. How can we draw on the talents of our children to solve this problem? One day soon, for sure it will become their problem.

In April 2007 a group of 20 students and teachers give up a few days of their holidays to come together to design, build and implement their ideas to Re-use Grey water....
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In August 2007 the South Australia Museum hosted the second Water Saving   Project. Click here to download the slide show.

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lab3000 Melbourne Incubator

 

2nd to 5th of April 2007

 

15 students from year 5 to 10, 3 engineering mentor students from RMIT and 3 High School teachers

 

 

Design, build and program a working prototype model of a house with an implemented microchip controlled grey water system.

 

 

 

1: Training

  • Introduction to CoreChart and ezCircuit Designer to get everyone up to speed with programming microchips in the context of control for the Re-use of Grey Water.
  • Discuss the safety aspects of using Grey Water based on Victorian EPA regulations.
  • Discuss setting up of a News Room and PR team

2: Designing

  • Design and document control system with ezCircuit Designer 
  • Teachers, lecturers and industry mentors share experience of project management and team skills.

3: Building and Programming

  • Design and build model house 
  • Build electronics control system 
  • Program microchip with CoreChart

4: Presentation

  • Presentation of project from each team

 

 

The students gained skills in the fields of:

 

  • Electronics

  • Science 

  • Maths 

  • Hands-on Experience

  • Programming Microchips

  • Communication (Presentation)

  • Team work

  • Water/Energy Saving

  • Industrial Work

 

 

Supporters:
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
  • Victorian Government
  • Clipsal
  • Leader Computers
  • AEEMA
  • Engineer Australia
  • Coliban Water Utility
  • Bioscreen (Germany)
  • Anthill Magazine
  • ROWater
  • NASA Space Education
  • St Helena Sec College
  • Committee for Melbourne

 

 

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One of five working models

 

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