What are Experience Days?

Experience Days are an opportunity for schools to provide their students with a first hand taste of what studying at a TAFE can involve.

Students participate in three one hour interactive workshops where they get hands on in supervised activities that simulate real classroom and workplace scenarios.

When and where are they held?

Bendigo TAFE

Thursday 14 July - Echuca campus.

Thursday 21 July - Dual campus (Charleston Rd & Bendigo city).

Kangan Institute

Friday 29 July - Broadmeadows campus.

Tuesday 2 August - Richmond campus

Thursday 4 August - Docklands campus.

Friday 12 August - Broadmeadows campus.

We will organise and cover the cost of return bus hire to our campuses.

How do they run?

Workshops will follow the below schedule.

Schedule

10am – 11am – Workshop 1

11am – 12pm – Workshop 2

12pm - 12.45pm – Lunch supplied

12.45 - 1.45pm – Workshop 3

We will organise and cover the cost of lunch for school groups (Vegetarian and Halal options available)

If you have a question regarding an Experience Day, please email specialevents@kangan.edu.au

Some or all of this training is delivered with Victorian and Commonwealth Government funding.

What is involved in the workshops?

Each campus offers a different range of workshops for students to experience.

To see which workshops are offered at which Experience Days click on the below banner.

Workshops that we offer include the below.

Allied Health:

Activities in this workshop can include checking pulses, heart beat, infection control and hand sanitisation.

Animal Studies & Primary Industries:

Activities in this workshop can include simulated pet CPR and planting seedlings.

Automotive:

Activities in this workshop can include changing a tyre and welding simulation.

Auto Electrical Workshop (Docklands only):

Activities in this workshop can include building your own test light.

Paint and Panel Workshop (Docklands only):

Activities in this workshop can include designing and printing your own decal bumper sticker.

Auto Combination Workshop (Docklands only):

Activities in this workshop can include changing a tyre, a welding machine simulation and a Vehicle Emissions Lab demo .

Beauty Services:

Activities in this workshop can include hand massages, manicuring and nail prep and polish.

Carpentry:

Activities in this workshop can include building a birdhouse or bookends.

Electrical:

Activities in this workshop can include feeding a cable through a conduit to replicate a common workplace scenario.

Engineering:

Activities in this workshop can include imprinting sheet metal.

Fashion Design:

Activities in this workshop can include the creation of a mood board.

Hospitality:

Activities in this workshop can include making mocktails, cooking pasta, tempering chocolate and baking bread.

Hairdressing:

Activities in this workshop can include hair styling on mannequins or a partner.

Justice:

Activities in this workshop can include assessing a simulated crime scene and memory recall.

Plumbing:

Activities in this workshop can include joining pipes and fittings.

Visual Merchandising:

Activities in this workshop can include the design and display of a simulated window front.

Security:

Activities in this workshop can include items screening through a detector.

All 2016 Experience Days have run.

For more information on 2017 Experience Day dates email sevents@kangan.edu.au for Kangan Institute dates or events@bendigotafe.edu.au Bendigo TAFE dates.