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Upcoming Events on the Futureworld calendar

Futureworld is not only a fantastic interactive centre, we also do numerous things in the community. Here are a list of events were involved in:

1. World Environment Day at Wollongong Botanic Gardens (1/9/10)

2. Gifted & Talented Students Program (9/9/10)

3. Fete of the Earth at Stanwell Park Public School (16/10/10)

4. Shellharbour Solar Expo at Shellharbour Workers Club (17/10/10)

For more info on any of these events please email us.

We won the 'Dedication and commitment to the Environment' Award!

Last week we attended a function held by Healthy Cities Illawarra and were delighted to receive an award in their environmental category for dedication and commitment to the environment! We were honored to receive the award and also awed by the other award winners on the day!

Healthy Cities Illawarra is part of the World Health Organisation and was originally founded in the Illawarra by our late Dr Pat Mowbray. The organisation works to improve and promote the health, physical environment and quality of lift of people in the Illawarra.

For more information on Healthy Cities Illawarra visit www.healthycitiesill.org.au

 

Futureworld AGM another success!

Future world held its annual general meeting on Thursday 15th of July. Prior to the meeting there were two speakers.

Dr Phil Flentje from the University of Wollongong gave an informative talk on landslide monitoring stations across the Illawarra.

Meryl McKerrow, the Futureworld education Officer spoke of the programs being developed to enhance the Futureworld Centre. Just a few of these programs include:

Office Bearers for the forth-coming year are:

POSITION	OFFICE BEARER
President	Mr. Robert Coombes
Vice President	Dr Muttucumaru Sivakumar
Treasurer	Mr. Jim Wallace
Secretary	Ms Belinda Schuster
BOD Member	Dr Judy Messer
BOD Member	Dr Paul Cooper
BOD Member	Dr Tim McCarthy
BOD Member	Dr Troy Coyle
BOD Member	Mr. Colin Markham

 

A Friendly Reminder

Your Futureworld Membership is Due for Renewal

Here at Futureworld we are looking forward to a great year ahead. We hope that you’re eager to again participate as a member as you have in previous years. Your membership is a vital and greatly appreciated part of our organization. 

Continued membership ensures

Membership Categorys 

Individual	$25
Family (2 adults + up to 3 Children)	$35
Concession	$12
Corporate	$125

 

Volunteering with Futureworld has many rewards

Futureworld is extremely lucky to have many wonderful volunteers. These volunteers range in age from eighteen to eighty. They act as guides, perform maintenance, assist with office administration, and research projects for our Education Officer.

Futureworld is very fortunate that three young people; Carina Tobia, Mohsen Mehran-Manesh and Emily Cukotevski, have been volunteering their time during the last three months.

Carina who is in a gap year before attending University is volunteering as a centre guide and working in office administration.

Mohsen who was completing his masters of environmental engineering at UOW (now successfully concluded) volunteered one day a week. He worked with Meryl McKerrow, our education officer, on a program for the Lake Illawarra estuarine education resource program.

Emily is working with Jodie Cooper, the Centre coordinator, in compiling centre management documents.

Futureworld is a cool place for both young and old to volunteer their time. We are always on the lookout for volunteers so why not give us a call. Better still if you haven’t yet visited the new Eco-Technology Centre please do drop in!

 

Oceanlinx using wave power to supply our local energy!

Oceanlinx is a leading international company in the field of wave energy conversion. The company has developed proprietary technology for extracting energy from ocean waves and converting it into electricity. On March 30th Oceanlinx launched its 3rd Generation Wave Energy Converter, the Mk3PC. This latest design and pre-commercial platform, is one of the most efficient and cost-effective wave energy technologies in the global scene today.

"We are very proud to announce that this unit is the only wave energy device in Australia of this size to be connected to the electrical grid and producing energy. In fact, we are one of very few wave energy developers around the world that have grid connected wave energy devices. This is a very exciting achievement for both Oceanlinx and the renewable energy sector."

For more information go to Oceanlinx.

A focus on our contacts

Peter Weaver has been volunteering with Futureworld for over 5 months and has been making significant progress updating our contact database. We have a long way to go, but Peter is in the process of cleaning out over 6000 contacts and ensuring that everyone on the Futureworld database wants to be there and that their details are correct. It's a massive job and were delighted to have Peter on board to help us out! Thanks Peter!

Clean Up Australia Day a massive success!

March saw another great Clean Up Australia Day hosted at Futureworld. We had heaps of volunteers help with the clean up and collected over 9 garbage bags full of rubbish and 4 bags of recyclables from around the lake. We all left with the feeling of really making a difference and Lake Illawarra certainly looked much cleaner for our efforts! Hope you can join us next year!

The end of an era!

Over the last three years Russell Verdon has been a major contributor to Futureworld. Russell has managed the office, lead tour groups and more recently taken a position on the Board of Directors as Treasurer. Russell has recently decided to step down from the board and also take a step out of the day to day operations at Futureworld. Russell has been an exceptional volunteer and will leave a significant gap in our resources. If you, or anyone you know is interested in volunteering, please drop us a line.

 

 

 

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