Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
CIT happenings 7 Feb 2013
International Orientation
22 Feb 2013
CITSA Cricket Day
8 Mar 2013
CITSA Lawn Bowls
11 Mar 2013
Canberra Day
13 Mar 2013
CITSA Movie Night @ CIT Bruce
18 Mar 2013
CIT Business Awards Evening
20 - 21 Mar 2013
C100 - Music, markets and more
29 Mar 2013
Good Friday
1 Apr 2013
Easter Monday
5 - 6 Apr 2013
CITSA Sydney Trip
7 Apr 2013
Daylight Saving Ends
17 Apr 2013
CITSA Movie Night @ CIT Reid
25 Apr 2013
ANZAC Day
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Canberra Institute of Technology
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Represent CIT at UniGames The Eastern University Games is the largest of the three regional university games held simultaneously across Australia for Australian tertiary students. This year, the Eastern University Games will attract over 2,200 student participants across 16 sports and will be held in Wollongong, NSW from
7 - 11 July. Sports on offer this year include: AFL 9s, basketball, football, futsal, golf (individual), hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby league 7s, rugby union 7s, squash (singles), tenpin bowling, tennis (singles), touch, ultimate and volleyball. CITSA and CIT have
collaborated to send competitive teams away statewide for the last four years coming away with a number of titles. Register your interest now at your campus CITSA Office to secure your place! Or grab your classmates and form your own team in your favourite sport.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we are on Ngunnawal land.
See Gloria’s story cit.edu.au/gloria
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Gloria Davison
On sale now at all CITSA Bookshops
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FEBRUARY 2013
Are you the 2013 Australian training awards winner?
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Introductory Special
Have you got what it takes to represent CIT and the ACT on the national stage? Last year saw two CIT graduates, Gloria Davison and Sara Burke, wow the national judges and secure the top awards at the 2012 National Training Awards in Melbourne.
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CITSA welcomes new and returning students CIT Student Association (CITSA) welcomes students to Semester 1, 2013. As a new or re-enrolling student, it’s never too late to get involved in the campus community. CITSA hopes to make the experience all the more worthwhile by providing a range of activities for students to get involved in. Start thinking about how you would like to be involved in the campus community. Here are some ideas: – volunteer in the local community – join a sporting team (or
possibly compete in the July Eastern University Games - see above for more)
– participate in the autumn and spring student forums – volunteer for the CIT CEO’s Student Liaison Group – participate in reconciliation events and activities – get involved in social activities – join the online student forum (citsa.com.au/forum) and meet other students – nominate for CITSA Council and become one of the nine students representing
fellow students and raising awareness of the student experience.
Do you have any ideas that you would like developed? Let us know. No matter how, what or when you study at CIT, you are always welcome to visit a CITSA Office and share your opinions or seek advice. Want more? The CITSA website has lots of useful information for CIT students. Visit citsa.com.au. Looking for accommodation? Looking for a job? Our Classifieds section gets updated daily and lists current
accommodation and job vacancies in the region. Want to be kept up-to-date? Check out the latest news or peruse the calendar. CITSA has a free smart phone app, ‘citsa4u’. Available for both Android and iPhone. Stay up-to-date with what is happening at CIT with the news, keep your class schedule with the diary and find the best offers around Australia with discounts. CITSA has its very own Facebook page at facebook. com/citsa. Check out how much fun we have in our albums, enter our competitions and win great prizes throughout the year. CITSA also has a Twitter account. Got something to say, drop us a line in 140 characters or less. Follow us at twitter.com/citsa4u.
Yung Warriors
Music, markets and more at CIT CIT will get a sound shake-up this March when Indigenous hip-hop duo the Yung Warriors headline two days of music, markets and special events for Canberra’s Centenary and National Close the Gap Day. Since releasing their debut album in 2007, brothers Tjimba Possum-burns and Danny Ramzan D-Boy have proven to be the fastest rising stars in Australian Indigenous hip-hop, last year taking out the 2012 Deadly Award for Hip-Hop Artist of the Year. They
currently have five tracks from their 2012 album, Standing Strong airing on Triple J. Other special events include a performance by Hidden Desire showcasing CIT music graduate Belinda Whyte, markets featuring handmade goods, an art exhibition for reconciliation, a free barbecue and special activities and guest appearances in support of National Close the Gap Day. This event is supported by the Centenary of Canberra, an initiative of the ACT
Government with support from the Australian Government, Close the Gap, CIT Yurauna Centre and CITSA. CIT Reid - 20 Mar 2013 11am – 2pm: Yung Warriors, Hidden Desire, markets, free barbecue. 1:45pm: Close the Gap afternoon tea - CIT Restaurant
CIT Woden - 21 Mar 2013 11am - 2pm: Yung Warriors, Hidden Desire, markets, free barbecue.
22-year-old hairdressing apprentice Sara Burke, who took out 2012 Australian Apprentice of the Year, honed her craft with CIT and La Bimbi Hair salons in Belconnen, before moving to the UK where she now works in a salon in London. Nursing student Gloria
Davison won 2012 Australian Vocational Student of the Year. Like many CIT students, Gloria came to CIT as a mature aged student, leaving a lucrative career to follow her nursing dream. She thrived at CIT, and has gone on to further study as well as working in mental health. Nominations are now open for the 2013 ACT Training Awards for Vocational Student of the Year, Apprentice of the Year, Trainee of the Year, Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander of the Year, and Teacher of the Year. Visit cit.edu.au/trainingawards.
Sara Burke See Sara’s story cit.edu.au/sara
Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
Lesley Cioccarelli
Fashioning the best of Canberra LED lights, high-tech sports fabric and graffiti art are among the materials four CIT students have drawn on in a bid to capture the best of Canberra in a new fashion collection.
wearer for their city.The result is a collection that oozes street-wise youth, practicality and leisure with a touch of the futuristic.
Fashion students Philippa Soutberg, Melinda Standen, Georgina McWilliams and Melissa Pompeani – all entering their final year of the Bachelor of Fashion Design – have collaborated on a special collection that pays tribute to Canberra in celebration of the city’s centenary.
“We started by selecting places on the Canberra map that would appeal to our young confident consumer. As a group we then interpreted the map in different ways, taking shapes and lines of the map to design conceptual garments,” Philippa said.
The students wanted the pieces to both reflect the best Canberra has to offer and to instil a sense of pride in the
And in each piece, there is a story that is uniquely Canberra.
“We collaborated with local Canberra graffiti artist Abyss.607 to produce an original print for the collection. The image was screen-
printed by local printing studio Megalo, then the map was stencilled separately over the top in glow-in-the-dark paint.” The durable, high-performance fabrics chosen, including the high-tech sports material hydronaute, both reflect the resilience of the city now celebrating its one-hundredth year and the active lifestyle of its citizens. While the collection is edgy and exciting in concept and design, the creators started out with a very simple vision for the fashion pieces. “We would love for people to be as excited and appreciative about the city in which they live as we are,” Philippa said.
Eco lessons prepare migrant students for life in Australia Learning about the environment may seem like a surprising priority for a newly arrived migrant or refugee, but in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), lessons on being ‘green’ are seen as an important step in the process of settling in Australia. The AMEP is funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and delivered across Australia, including at the CIT Vocational College. It is an essential support pillar for new migrants and refugees, offering language and cultural support as they begin their lives in a new country. The program is designed so that while students learn and practise essential English language skills, they also learn about living in Australia through a wide variety of topics - from transport, health and emergencies, to the Australian education system, working in
Australia, housing issues and environmental issues. Alex Dodgson, an AMEP teacher at the CIT Vocational College, says learning to be environmentally-friendly is an example of a topic that may seem peripheral to settlement, but is critically important for the newly arrived. “Right from the beginning of the settlement program, our students are learning about energy and water saving measures - issues such as these are actually a part of learning what it is like living in Australia,” Alex said. “Some of our students come from refugee camps, for example, where access to water and electricity may have been very limited. They need to learn that yes, they might have easy access to these things now, but that there will be significant costs involved with using them too much,”
“We teach them about turning the lights off when they are not needed, turning the thermostat down, not leaving the tap running, those kinds of basics. These lessons are important for helping new migrants avoid paying hefty utility bills and perhaps falling into debt.”
“As our students progress through the program, the topics become more advanced,” Alex said. “With the Certificate III in Spoken and Written English,
CIT pastry chef goes for sweet success in France Vast sculptures made entirely of chocolate and sugar might be every sweet tooth’s dream, but it is a serious business for 66 of the world’s top pastry chefs, including CIT chef Dammika Hatharasinghe, who recently competed in the World Pastry Cup. Officially known as la Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, it is the Olympic event of the pastry world, bringing together the most promising talents of the moment in a competition held every two years in Lyon, France. As one of Australia’s top sugar specialists, CIT chef and culinary teacher Dammika Hatharasinghe helped lead Team Pastry Australia to a surprise win in the qualifying event, the Asian Pastry Cup in April 2012.
she said.
A stack of colourful posters in CIT Vocational College, where AMEP is delivered, is testament to the variety of environmental issues covered in the program - from saving water and electricity in the household, to recycling and composting, carbon emissions, climate change and renewable energies.
Dammika Hatharasinghe
we start looking at the environmental issues found in the newspapers and current affairs programs such as Behind the News and discuss these. For example, we’ve looked at the pros and cons of the plastic bag ban in the ACT, and we’ve talked at length about renewable energies and climate change,” she said. However, while the students may benefit directly from the bill-saving tips in the settlement program, Alex says they often come with a mindset from their
experiences after having very little, that we as Australians could learn from. “Our students tend not to spend money on anything superfluous, and are often very mindful of waste. For example, they’ll bring their own lunch and their own coffee in a thermos, and they will use up, rather than throw away, the leftover bits and pieces in the fridge,” she said. “These things naturally have flow on benefits for the environment.”
While Team Pastry France took the title to the world’s most demanding and prestigious pastry final, it is no small feat to qualify for the event or to successfully complete the demanding challenges of the day. Competition day, which took place on 27 January, was a gruelling 10 hours, in which each team created unique, intricate pieces that represented their country. These pieces included three frozen fruit desserts, three chocolate desserts, twelve desserts on a plate, an artistic creation made of sugar, an artistic creation made of chocolate, and an artistic creation made of sculpted ice. Team Pastry Australia recreated Australian icons from Sydney Harbour – including the Sydney Opera
House and Sydney Tower complete with New Year fireworks out of chocolate, and a water theme featuring a jumping marlin emerging from crystal clear water, out of sugar. In the final lead-up to the big event, the three-person team trained for up to 80 hours a week under the supervision of a coach and a manager. They also enlisted the help of worldrenowned chefs, practised constructing 1-2 metre high sweet sculptures, and carefully developed a top-secret game plan for the day. The competition aims to both reveal the world’s top masters of sweet creations, as well as to set the latest trends in the trade. It is judged by a jury of the world’s best known pastry chefs.
CIT Tuggeranong is relocating CIT Tuggeranong will be moving to a new location in February. The campus will relocate to Unit 8, 175 Anketell Street (Centrepoint Building), in Tuggeranong. The new CIT Tuggeranong is located on a much larger site, right in the heart of Tuggeranong, offering closer accessibility to transport. CIT Tuggeranong offers a
wide range of flexible courses, giving student the opportunity to study close to home. All CIT students also have access to the CIT Learning Centre, a large range of resources and other CIT facilities located on site. For more information and final moving dates, contact CIT Student Services on (02) 6207 3188 or you can email infoline@cit.edu.au.
From social media to the classroom Social media has created opportunities for education professionals to use personal learning networks to collaborate with others from all around the world. An increasing number of teachers use Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other online forums to learn from, and share ideas with, a huge network of colleagues from all over the world.
As part of CamTESOL, which is one of the biggest events of its kind in South-East Asia, a program is run for companies to sponsor teachers from rural parts of Cambodia to attend the conference. CIT was able to raise enough money for five Cambodian teachers to attend. “It’s important that the Cambodian teachers get to go to events like this,” she says.
Lesley Cioccarelli, an English as a Second Language teacher from CIT Vocational College, was one of the first teachers in Australia to get involved.
“There are so many keen teachers who just want to learn – they wouldn’t be able to go to these kinds of events without sponsorship.
“There is a whole network of teachers from around the world. We chat on Twitter about once a week on different topics,” Lesley says.
“Some of these teachers may be the only English teachers in their school, and they may feel quite isolated,” she says.
“It’s also a place to share with the community if you’ve done something interesting, and you can get 24/7 support. “ Through her networks, Lesley formed a connection with Andrea Wade from Eastern International University in Vietnam. Having only so far shared a virtual relationship, the two will meet in person for the first time in February when Lesley attends CamTESOL Conference 2013, held in Phnom Penh. The pair will co-present a workshop at the conference focussing on connecting with teachers around the world, and how to develop a personal learning network. “We’re both living examples of how you can learn online through Twitter and Facebook,” Lesley says. “Even though we’ve never met, we’ve been sharing and learning online for years.”
Lesley has herself personally developed two learning networks; eltchat.org/ (#ELTchat) which is a global community of English language teachers, and auselt. com/ (#AusELT), which is an Australia-focussed space. “It’s really important to connect – and there are a lot of teachers looking to help people,” she says. Lesley has also created eVOCative, an eLearn space for teachers across CIT Vocational College to learn, share and exchange ideas and resources, help each other and ask for advice. “I learn so much through the networks, so I felt it was important to create a similar space at CIT – we share professional development ideas,” she says. “I’m just trying to help teachers by showing how simple it is to get support from around the world.”
Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
Lesley Cioccarelli
Fashioning the best of Canberra LED lights, high-tech sports fabric and graffiti art are among the materials four CIT students have drawn on in a bid to capture the best of Canberra in a new fashion collection.
wearer for their city.The result is a collection that oozes street-wise youth, practicality and leisure with a touch of the futuristic.
Fashion students Philippa Soutberg, Melinda Standen, Georgina McWilliams and Melissa Pompeani – all entering their final year of the Bachelor of Fashion Design – have collaborated on a special collection that pays tribute to Canberra in celebration of the city’s centenary.
“We started by selecting places on the Canberra map that would appeal to our young confident consumer. As a group we then interpreted the map in different ways, taking shapes and lines of the map to design conceptual garments,” Philippa said.
The students wanted the pieces to both reflect the best Canberra has to offer and to instil a sense of pride in the
And in each piece, there is a story that is uniquely Canberra.
“We collaborated with local Canberra graffiti artist Abyss.607 to produce an original print for the collection. The image was screen-
printed by local printing studio Megalo, then the map was stencilled separately over the top in glow-in-the-dark paint.” The durable, high-performance fabrics chosen, including the high-tech sports material hydronaute, both reflect the resilience of the city now celebrating its one-hundredth year and the active lifestyle of its citizens. While the collection is edgy and exciting in concept and design, the creators started out with a very simple vision for the fashion pieces. “We would love for people to be as excited and appreciative about the city in which they live as we are,” Philippa said.
Eco lessons prepare migrant students for life in Australia Learning about the environment may seem like a surprising priority for a newly arrived migrant or refugee, but in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), lessons on being ‘green’ are seen as an important step in the process of settling in Australia. The AMEP is funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and delivered across Australia, including at the CIT Vocational College. It is an essential support pillar for new migrants and refugees, offering language and cultural support as they begin their lives in a new country. The program is designed so that while students learn and practise essential English language skills, they also learn about living in Australia through a wide variety of topics - from transport, health and emergencies, to the Australian education system, working in
Australia, housing issues and environmental issues. Alex Dodgson, an AMEP teacher at the CIT Vocational College, says learning to be environmentally-friendly is an example of a topic that may seem peripheral to settlement, but is critically important for the newly arrived. “Right from the beginning of the settlement program, our students are learning about energy and water saving measures - issues such as these are actually a part of learning what it is like living in Australia,” Alex said. “Some of our students come from refugee camps, for example, where access to water and electricity may have been very limited. They need to learn that yes, they might have easy access to these things now, but that there will be significant costs involved with using them too much,”
“We teach them about turning the lights off when they are not needed, turning the thermostat down, not leaving the tap running, those kinds of basics. These lessons are important for helping new migrants avoid paying hefty utility bills and perhaps falling into debt.”
“As our students progress through the program, the topics become more advanced,” Alex said. “With the Certificate III in Spoken and Written English,
CIT pastry chef goes for sweet success in France Vast sculptures made entirely of chocolate and sugar might be every sweet tooth’s dream, but it is a serious business for 66 of the world’s top pastry chefs, including CIT chef Dammika Hatharasinghe, who recently competed in the World Pastry Cup. Officially known as la Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, it is the Olympic event of the pastry world, bringing together the most promising talents of the moment in a competition held every two years in Lyon, France. As one of Australia’s top sugar specialists, CIT chef and culinary teacher Dammika Hatharasinghe helped lead Team Pastry Australia to a surprise win in the qualifying event, the Asian Pastry Cup in April 2012.
she said.
A stack of colourful posters in CIT Vocational College, where AMEP is delivered, is testament to the variety of environmental issues covered in the program - from saving water and electricity in the household, to recycling and composting, carbon emissions, climate change and renewable energies.
Dammika Hatharasinghe
we start looking at the environmental issues found in the newspapers and current affairs programs such as Behind the News and discuss these. For example, we’ve looked at the pros and cons of the plastic bag ban in the ACT, and we’ve talked at length about renewable energies and climate change,” she said. However, while the students may benefit directly from the bill-saving tips in the settlement program, Alex says they often come with a mindset from their
experiences after having very little, that we as Australians could learn from. “Our students tend not to spend money on anything superfluous, and are often very mindful of waste. For example, they’ll bring their own lunch and their own coffee in a thermos, and they will use up, rather than throw away, the leftover bits and pieces in the fridge,” she said. “These things naturally have flow on benefits for the environment.”
While Team Pastry France took the title to the world’s most demanding and prestigious pastry final, it is no small feat to qualify for the event or to successfully complete the demanding challenges of the day. Competition day, which took place on 27 January, was a gruelling 10 hours, in which each team created unique, intricate pieces that represented their country. These pieces included three frozen fruit desserts, three chocolate desserts, twelve desserts on a plate, an artistic creation made of sugar, an artistic creation made of chocolate, and an artistic creation made of sculpted ice. Team Pastry Australia recreated Australian icons from Sydney Harbour – including the Sydney Opera
House and Sydney Tower complete with New Year fireworks out of chocolate, and a water theme featuring a jumping marlin emerging from crystal clear water, out of sugar. In the final lead-up to the big event, the three-person team trained for up to 80 hours a week under the supervision of a coach and a manager. They also enlisted the help of worldrenowned chefs, practised constructing 1-2 metre high sweet sculptures, and carefully developed a top-secret game plan for the day. The competition aims to both reveal the world’s top masters of sweet creations, as well as to set the latest trends in the trade. It is judged by a jury of the world’s best known pastry chefs.
CIT Tuggeranong is relocating CIT Tuggeranong will be moving to a new location in February. The campus will relocate to Unit 8, 175 Anketell Street (Centrepoint Building), in Tuggeranong. The new CIT Tuggeranong is located on a much larger site, right in the heart of Tuggeranong, offering closer accessibility to transport. CIT Tuggeranong offers a
wide range of flexible courses, giving student the opportunity to study close to home. All CIT students also have access to the CIT Learning Centre, a large range of resources and other CIT facilities located on site. For more information and final moving dates, contact CIT Student Services on (02) 6207 3188 or you can email infoline@cit.edu.au.
From social media to the classroom Social media has created opportunities for education professionals to use personal learning networks to collaborate with others from all around the world. An increasing number of teachers use Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other online forums to learn from, and share ideas with, a huge network of colleagues from all over the world.
As part of CamTESOL, which is one of the biggest events of its kind in South-East Asia, a program is run for companies to sponsor teachers from rural parts of Cambodia to attend the conference. CIT was able to raise enough money for five Cambodian teachers to attend. “It’s important that the Cambodian teachers get to go to events like this,” she says.
Lesley Cioccarelli, an English as a Second Language teacher from CIT Vocational College, was one of the first teachers in Australia to get involved.
“There are so many keen teachers who just want to learn – they wouldn’t be able to go to these kinds of events without sponsorship.
“There is a whole network of teachers from around the world. We chat on Twitter about once a week on different topics,” Lesley says.
“Some of these teachers may be the only English teachers in their school, and they may feel quite isolated,” she says.
“It’s also a place to share with the community if you’ve done something interesting, and you can get 24/7 support. “ Through her networks, Lesley formed a connection with Andrea Wade from Eastern International University in Vietnam. Having only so far shared a virtual relationship, the two will meet in person for the first time in February when Lesley attends CamTESOL Conference 2013, held in Phnom Penh. The pair will co-present a workshop at the conference focussing on connecting with teachers around the world, and how to develop a personal learning network. “We’re both living examples of how you can learn online through Twitter and Facebook,” Lesley says. “Even though we’ve never met, we’ve been sharing and learning online for years.”
Lesley has herself personally developed two learning networks; eltchat.org/ (#ELTchat) which is a global community of English language teachers, and auselt. com/ (#AusELT), which is an Australia-focussed space. “It’s really important to connect – and there are a lot of teachers looking to help people,” she says. Lesley has also created eVOCative, an eLearn space for teachers across CIT Vocational College to learn, share and exchange ideas and resources, help each other and ask for advice. “I learn so much through the networks, so I felt it was important to create a similar space at CIT – we share professional development ideas,” she says. “I’m just trying to help teachers by showing how simple it is to get support from around the world.”
Canberra Institute of Technology – February 2013
CIT happenings 7 Feb 2013
International Orientation
22 Feb 2013
CITSA Cricket Day
8 Mar 2013
CITSA Lawn Bowls
11 Mar 2013
Canberra Day
13 Mar 2013
CITSA Movie Night @ CIT Bruce
18 Mar 2013
CIT Business Awards Evening
20 - 21 Mar 2013
C100 - Music, markets and more
29 Mar 2013
Good Friday
1 Apr 2013
Easter Monday
5 - 6 Apr 2013
CITSA Sydney Trip
7 Apr 2013
Daylight Saving Ends
17 Apr 2013
CITSA Movie Night @ CIT Reid
25 Apr 2013
ANZAC Day
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Canberra Institute of Technology
cit.edu.au
Represent CIT at UniGames The Eastern University Games is the largest of the three regional university games held simultaneously across Australia for Australian tertiary students. This year, the Eastern University Games will attract over 2,200 student participants across 16 sports and will be held in Wollongong, NSW from
7 - 11 July. Sports on offer this year include: AFL 9s, basketball, football, futsal, golf (individual), hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby league 7s, rugby union 7s, squash (singles), tenpin bowling, tennis (singles), touch, ultimate and volleyball. CITSA and CIT have
collaborated to send competitive teams away statewide for the last four years coming away with a number of titles. Register your interest now at your campus CITSA Office to secure your place! Or grab your classmates and form your own team in your favourite sport.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we are on Ngunnawal land.
See Gloria’s story cit.edu.au/gloria
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Gloria Davison
On sale now at all CITSA Bookshops
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
FEBRUARY 2013
Are you the 2013 Australian training awards winner?
CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Introductory Special
Have you got what it takes to represent CIT and the ACT on the national stage? Last year saw two CIT graduates, Gloria Davison and Sara Burke, wow the national judges and secure the top awards at the 2012 National Training Awards in Melbourne.
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CITSA welcomes new and returning students CIT Student Association (CITSA) welcomes students to Semester 1, 2013. As a new or re-enrolling student, it’s never too late to get involved in the campus community. CITSA hopes to make the experience all the more worthwhile by providing a range of activities for students to get involved in. Start thinking about how you would like to be involved in the campus community. Here are some ideas: – volunteer in the local community – join a sporting team (or
possibly compete in the July Eastern University Games - see above for more)
– participate in the autumn and spring student forums – volunteer for the CIT CEO’s Student Liaison Group – participate in reconciliation events and activities – get involved in social activities – join the online student forum (citsa.com.au/forum) and meet other students – nominate for CITSA Council and become one of the nine students representing
fellow students and raising awareness of the student experience.
Do you have any ideas that you would like developed? Let us know. No matter how, what or when you study at CIT, you are always welcome to visit a CITSA Office and share your opinions or seek advice. Want more? The CITSA website has lots of useful information for CIT students. Visit citsa.com.au. Looking for accommodation? Looking for a job? Our Classifieds section gets updated daily and lists current
accommodation and job vacancies in the region. Want to be kept up-to-date? Check out the latest news or peruse the calendar. CITSA has a free smart phone app, ‘citsa4u’. Available for both Android and iPhone. Stay up-to-date with what is happening at CIT with the news, keep your class schedule with the diary and find the best offers around Australia with discounts. CITSA has its very own Facebook page at facebook. com/citsa. Check out how much fun we have in our albums, enter our competitions and win great prizes throughout the year. CITSA also has a Twitter account. Got something to say, drop us a line in 140 characters or less. Follow us at twitter.com/citsa4u.
Yung Warriors
Music, markets and more at CIT CIT will get a sound shake-up this March when Indigenous hip-hop duo the Yung Warriors headline two days of music, markets and special events for Canberra’s Centenary and National Close the Gap Day. Since releasing their debut album in 2007, brothers Tjimba Possum-burns and Danny Ramzan D-Boy have proven to be the fastest rising stars in Australian Indigenous hip-hop, last year taking out the 2012 Deadly Award for Hip-Hop Artist of the Year. They
currently have five tracks from their 2012 album, Standing Strong airing on Triple J. Other special events include a performance by Hidden Desire showcasing CIT music graduate Belinda Whyte, markets featuring handmade goods, an art exhibition for reconciliation, a free barbecue and special activities and guest appearances in support of National Close the Gap Day. This event is supported by the Centenary of Canberra, an initiative of the ACT
Government with support from the Australian Government, Close the Gap, CIT Yurauna Centre and CITSA. CIT Reid - 20 Mar 2013 11am – 2pm: Yung Warriors, Hidden Desire, markets, free barbecue. 1:45pm: Close the Gap afternoon tea - CIT Restaurant
CIT Woden - 21 Mar 2013 11am - 2pm: Yung Warriors, Hidden Desire, markets, free barbecue.
22-year-old hairdressing apprentice Sara Burke, who took out 2012 Australian Apprentice of the Year, honed her craft with CIT and La Bimbi Hair salons in Belconnen, before moving to the UK where she now works in a salon in London. Nursing student Gloria
Davison won 2012 Australian Vocational Student of the Year. Like many CIT students, Gloria came to CIT as a mature aged student, leaving a lucrative career to follow her nursing dream. She thrived at CIT, and has gone on to further study as well as working in mental health. Nominations are now open for the 2013 ACT Training Awards for Vocational Student of the Year, Apprentice of the Year, Trainee of the Year, Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander of the Year, and Teacher of the Year. Visit cit.edu.au/trainingawards.
Sara Burke See Sara’s story cit.edu.au/sara