This week all our Young Eco Champions and some of our Young Farming Champions came to the farm for another workshop
The superstar attendees
Once again we hired the stunning Glenn Murcutt house on the farm and when the 43 degree heat hit we were certainly able to test out how well he had designed the ventilation. We were pretty impressed Glenn
Wow you don’t see houses like this on your average dairy farm
Victoria Taylor kicked off the weekend with a session for the team on writing scholarship applications and CV’s and job interview techniques. Our YEC’s and YFC all want to be in positions of influence sooner rather than later and we are determined to help them get there.
Heather for example has her eye on Tony Burke’s job and she is off to DAFF to help fast track this. Whilst I don’t think Tony Burke has anything to worry about just yet but a few years down the track I would be surprised if Heather makes her move
Heather (right) being interviewed by Tara
One of the highlights of the weekend was a number of sessions on working in front of the camera
– Camera techniques, skills and spills
– presenter techniques
– interviewee techniques
– unprepared speeches / responses
– writing your own script
– stuff you know – prepared speeches without sounding prepared
We were lucky enough to have our professional videographer Lance on hand to work with NIDA trained director Annie too provide practical applications in front of the camera
Lance checks the lighting
As you know one of the highlights of the Archibull Prize is visiting the schools and meeting the teachers and students. Over the past couple of years we have identified a number of superstar students and we invited two of them to the workshop to interview each of the YFC’s and YEC’s on camera.
Getting up close and personal with the baby calves
Just to you show the talent of the students and one of our team. Tara hams it up with a South Carolina drawl in this interview with Heather who amazingly managed not to crack up. Check it out and remember Tara is only 16 and what’s to be a burns specialist. I don’t know I can see her just maybe taking over from Carrie Bickmore one day
Such talent I so enjoyed my three days with these wonderful young people