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Watershed Creative Arts Prize Winners
Congratulations to our Year 8 students who won the Salisbury Council Watershed Creative Arts Prize, Emerging Technologies category on Friday night, for their Dry Creek Augmented Reality Experiences. These experiences were created for the CESA XR Challenge in 2020.
Students explored the theme of sustainability and how they could reduce the human impact and increase the use of Dry Creek. Working with Lumination, students engaged in virtual and augmented reality (AR) experiences to fully immerse in their learning.
Through the XR Challenge students enjoyed learning how to create and code virtual environments. At the same time, adopting a section of the Dry Creek Trail and studying water quality, pollution, man-made objects, plants and animals. Each group created an AR experience for their section of the creek. Working with Salisbury Council and The Friends of Dry Creek Trail, the AR worlds are linked to a QR code that can be accessed by the public as they walk the trail!
The Creative Arts Prize finalists are currently on display in the John Harvey Community Hall. The exhibition will run for 6 weeks from 10 May to 16 June 2021.
The competition included entries depicting the theme of sustainability, with works from traditional art and written mediums, as well as emerging technologies.