Today, I am speaking with trade teacher from Bundaberg High School Greg Smith.

Greg runs the HPV Super Series which sees 200 human powered racing vehicles compete in 8 races across Queensland.

Now, I though this was going to be a good news story about a new competition starting soon, but it wasn’t to be. It is a talk about how COVID-19 has decimated one school sport this year and the difficulties that lie ahead. Our Kids missing out.

Thanks to Greg Smith for the chat.

 

HPV Super Series Website: https://hpvsuperseries.com.au/ Contact: Greg Smith Email: [email protected]

 

About the Bridge Building Podcast

“This is the place where we dissect and then discover the many ways ITD teachers all over this country are using their passion to create passionate students. We talk of measuring and manipulating a multitude of materials of design and divergent thought, of creation with our minds and with our hands. And most of all, we talk of growing great young people because of course that is what we do.”

So what does that mean other than I like to show off my alliteration skills? Since coming back to teaching a few years ago the thing that strikes me most, and frankly scared me most is how lonely this job is. How little we know about what is happening in our subject area. The classroom next door, a class in the next school, let alone the next town are a mystery to me. I know there are teachers out there doing incredible things and this (the podcast) is a way for me to find out and be inspired. I would like to invite you along to listen and learn, to be inspired by some of the sensational teachers I speak to on the “Bridge Building Podcast – from technology to the trades”

 

About the Podcast Host

Stephen Anderson is a Design Technology, Trade Training and accidental Science teacher at a small high school 2 hours North West of Brisbane.

 

Over To You

To keep this podcast going, I need your help.

If you know someone who is doing something spectacular or just great fun in design and tech or in trade training, I would love to know about them.

Contact me through my email [email protected]