Students attend boat show
Twenty-four Brisbane Water Secondary College Umina campus students attended a Boating Industry and Careers Day at the Sydney Boat Show on Friday, July 29.
Students spent the first two hours of the day looking at the 500 boats in the exhibition halls and the 200 boats on the marina.
Safety and education programs were available, as well as "performing fish" and fishing clinics.
There were also displays of workmanship by the Shipwrights and Boatbuilders Association.
Students involved themselves in an entire hall of stands covering all careers in the maritime world and saw Jessica Watson's around-the-world yacht.
The students also attended presentations and discussions about the careers available in the industry by representatives from TAFE, the Marine Teachers Association and the Australian Business Apprenticeships Centre.
They were told that the industry as a whole needed youth with a creative outlook to support experienced older people in the industry.
Newsletter, 16 Aug 2011
Frank Gasper, BWSC Umina