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Our Programs

About our programs
What students learn

Ballarat Tech School is designed to engage, inspire and prepare students for lifelong learning in a changing, highly STEM focused world. Through partnerships and collaboration our programs equip students with transferable skills for STEM pathways, build capability andĀ  confidenceĀ in teachers and link both to emerging and future industry partners.

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Types of programs

How we teach

Our programs are free to attend onsite (including transportation) for partner schools and online and in 2024 will be available to book through our website, making the process easier and more accessible to more of our learning community.

Go Wide

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

These programs are designed to cover a broad range of curricula and student capabilities, inspiring curiosity in STEM skills and emerging technologies for all students. Go Wide programs are suitable for whole year level bookings, providing an accessible offering to every partner school student at least once a year, every year, from years 7 - 9.

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Go Wide

Go Deep

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

These programs and opportunities offer skill extensions and pathways for engaged students. They have a targeted future focus, introduce real world challenges and are best suited to elective style classes that can embed the learning at school. Specialist opt in opportunities are designed for students who want to learn more through repeat visits and industry exposure.

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Go Deep

Go Deep Special Opportunities

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

These programs and opportunities offer skill extensions and pathways for engaged students at set dates, times and formats. Specialist opt in opportunities are designed for students who want to learn more through regular and repeat visits and industry exposure. Registration for these events can be coordinated through schools or individually by students themselves.

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Go Deep Special Opportunities

Go Career

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

These programs have a post schooling pathways focus that targets VCE, VCE VM & VET requirements for further study and/or work readiness. They utilise our resources to improve student assessment and link to local and future industry pathways and opportunities.

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Go Career

Tech School at Your School

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

We understand that attending the Tech School is not always possible for a variety of reasons, so we have designed a range of options that can bring some of the Tech School programs, equipment and expertise to your school instead. These programs are designed for regional Non-Partner schools but can also be accessed by Partner Schools.

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Tech School at Your School

Teacher Professional Learning

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

Free, and available for teachers across a variety of content, pedagogy and technology areas, professional learning sessions will be regularly available each term and promoted through our eNews. Sessions can also be undertaken within onsite core program delivery and teachers are encouraged to reach out to co-design experiences that address specific skill or knowledge needs.

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Teacher Professional Learning

Coming in 2025

Audience
School
Duration
1 day

New programs coming in 2025.

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Coming in 2025

Program Guide 2025

Our 2025 program guide has been structured to reflect the types of programs we offer and their increasing complexity by year level, and also to showcase other specialist STEM learning opportunities that are available to both students and teachers outside normal program delivery.

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The Ballarat Tech School is a Victorian State Government initiative.

All Enquiries

ballarattechschool@federation.edu.au
03 5327 8080

Campus Location

MB John Building, Level 1 FedUni SMB Campus,
136 Albert St, Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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The Ballarat Tech School acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and waters where our campus is located, the Wadawurrung People. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Peoples.

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