Bright ideas
Innovators, designers, futurists, and scientists will descend on Brisbane in March to inspire young Queenslanders to think big at the 2009 Ideas Festival.
Over two days students from years six to 10 will be invited to take part in the festival's first dedicated schools program. The Think Do Tank Program, to be held at the State Library of Queensland from 26 to 27 March, includes a range of panels, workshops and interactive media designed to inspire the people who will be our policy makers and leaders.
Thanks to a group of year six students from New Farm State School who have been helping to design the program, the activities and speakers are sure to engage young audiences. Member of the school's ideas festival student advisory committee, Declan, says kids need to learn about what they can do to help their community while students Margo and Jarra agree that individual action is the key to change. "I think an individual can change the way people think," Jarra says.
During the festival students will have the chance to hear from inspiring speakers including technologist Helen Greiner, bio-ethicist Peter Singer, city planner Charles Landry and human rights advocate Geoffrey Robertson.