What’s Happening

16 August 2016

Sydney Repower Picnic

When: 11am-2pm on Sunday 18th September Where: Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Join us to celebrate the tremendous efforts and achievements made by high school students across NSW to Repower their Schools for a more sustainable and healthier future! We’ll be picnicking, playing games, sharing what students have done to lead the Repower campaign in their schools and what […]

16 August 2016

Melbourne Repower Fair

Join high school students from across Victoria who are participating in the Repower our Schools campaign.  A day filled with fun clean energy themed games and prizes to be won! When: Saturday 3rd of September Where: Argyle Square, Carlton VIC 3053 Time : 2.30 – 4.30 pm More information: Rachel – call: 0409132661, email: [email protected]

4 August 2016

Visions for the Valley

The Latrobe Valley has powered Victoria with brown coal for decades. Now they’re faced with the dual challenges of a warming climate and the transition away from coal to renewables. These high school students are getting on with the job and repowering their schools!

3 August 2016

Latrobe Valley Students Star On WIN News !

On the 28th and 29th of July 2016 over a 120 students came together for the first ever Latrobe Valley Switched on Schools Summit.  Their story made Win News Victoria – check it out !  #visionforthevalley

13 July 2016

SA: SCAN Holiday Workshop

We want to give high school students across Adelaide the opportunity to become a climate leader for SA with the AYCC SCAN Holiday Workshop on the 21st of July! We have been listening to your ideas since the Switched on Schools Summit, and have created this event to give you the power and the people […]

22 June 2016

Western Sydney Switched on Schools summit

Western Sydney came alive on the 7th and 8th June with 100 high school students converging at the Granville Town Hall for the Parramatta Switched on Schools summit. 8 schools from across Western Sydney came to learn more about climate change and the unequal impacts it is having on communities around the world. Students heard […]

20 June 2016

Repower our Schools Presentation

Check out this Repower our Schools presentation.  Use it to present to your school to explain the campaign, why you care about climate change and how they can get involved! Download Repower powerpoint presentation Download Repower presentation script

20 June 2016

St Aloysius college develop a plan to repower

Members of St Aloysius College’s Greenhouse Group attended the Switched on Schools Adelaide summit on 18 and 19th of May.  They joined 80 high school students from across Adelaide for 2-days of learning, sharing, planning and climate action!   They heard from the Adelaide Lord Mayor and SA Minister for Environment about the role of […]

20 June 2016

Student encourages hundreds of his peers to enrol to vote

Launceston College student and AYCC volunteer Monte is passionate about young people having a say in their future, and recently started a Twitter hashtag to raise awareness about the importance of young people enrolling to vote this election. Unfortunately, despite enrolling to vote just after he turned 16, Monte misses out on voting by just […]

20 June 2016

Repowering Brighton Secondary College

 By Matthew James Richardson I went to my first AYCC summit in September 2014 while I was a Year 11 at Brighton Secondary, Adelaide. I went because I cared about climate change and wanted to learn more, because my chem teacher encouraged me, and because, worst case scenario, two days off school! During the summit […]