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Federation University Australia students will conduct a virtual exhibition this week to showcase projects they have developed in collaboration with community groups in Ballarat, Berwick and Gippsland. 

The projects were part of the Team Enterprise subject for fourth year Bachelor of Education students and required them to create projects to support local organisations of their choice. 

Students worked on projects in the areas of: 

• Education   

• Sporting organisations 

• Youth and arts programs/organisations 

• Health and wellbeing  

• Environment and sustainability 

• Community health and other services 

• Childcare/disability care services 

• Waste and resource recovery 

• Community business. 

The exhibition traditionally involves face-to-face presentations, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online until 12 June.  

The online delivery was not the only time students were required to change their approach as a result of the introduced pandemic restrictions.  

Many projects were affected, requiring students to develop strong lateral thinking, contingency planning and resilience skills in order to adapt to new conditions.  

These skills will be beneficial to students when they enter the workforce in 2021 as graduate teachers. 

The exhibition can be accessed via the link: tinyurl.com/EnterpriseExhibition 

Quotes attributable to Federation University School of Education Senior Lecturer and Team Enterprise Course Coordinator, Dr Monica Green 

“These projects aim to equip our graduating teachers with future oriented skills including creativity, collaboration, financial literacy and critical thinking, which they will take into their classrooms next year.  

“Throughout the project they have not worked for, but with, organisations to gain an understanding of what they need and how they can support the work those organisations are doing in the community.”