February 23rd, 2009
Last Saturday 21st February, members, parents, friends and community members gathered at the Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse for the opening of the Exhibition “Through Our Eyes.”
The Exhibition was opened by Richard Wynn MP, member for Richmond and the Minister for Housing, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister for Local Government.
Gail Breslow, Director of the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network from Boston, USA spoke at the opening and awarded Certificates of Participation to the 12 members who participated in the exhibition.
Photos will be on display at the Fitzroy Learning Network for a couple of weeks as well as online. Please view our album on flickr, or view a random selection of images below. (Press refresh to see some more pictures, or visit the flickr page).
February 11th, 2009
Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse is hosting an open house to celebrate the photographic work of Clubhouse members.
Where: Fitzroy Learning Network, 198 Napier Street, Fitzroy
When: Saturday the 21st February 2009, 11AM - 1PM
About the Exhibition: “Through Our Eyes” is the visual response of 12 Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse members to the challenge – “photograph Melbourne’s culture”. Participants are aged 8-15 and come from diverse cultural backgrounds including Pakistani, Eritrean, Somali and Afghani. The exhibition will be on display at the Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse on Saturday, 21st February 2009 from 11am. Select images will be displayed at the Fitzroy Learning Network and online at
http://www.fitzroylearningnetwork.org.au/cclub/through-our-eyes
after the exhibition.
February 9th, 2009
We hope everyone has had a happy and safe holiday season and are excited about all the opportunities 2009 has to offer.
Clubhouse has been open for a week now, and we’re already off to a flying start. Some of the projects being worked on at the moment include-
- Lego robotics using NXT and the older Lego Mindstorms
- Interactive Programming with Picocrickets
- Building a website for youth performance group
- Planning a music video to accompany some tracks produced last year with the Adobe Youth Voices Program. (more news on this soon)
- Photography for our upcoming “Through Our Eyes” photographic exhibition next Saturday
Some new members have started, and we welcome two new volunteer mentors, Claire and Grant to the Clubhouse.
Grant has many interests and we look forward to taking advantage of his musical skills in the music studio as some of the members are interested in recording some raps.
Claire enjoys trying her hand at everything and her first day at the clubhouse involved finding lego pieces for our Clubhouse Members engineering masterpieces.
Gail Breslow, Director of the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network at the Museum of Science in Boston, USA is visiting us next week and will be at our exhibition “Through Our Eyes” on Saturday 21st February from 11am.
All members of the community are invited to attend.
