Futuretechs in Mackay, Queensland | Community organisation

Futuretechs

Locality: Mackay, Queensland

Phone: +61 435 490 998

Address: Building 4, Level 2, 92 Sydney St 4740 Mackay, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.futuretechs.com.au

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23.01.2022 Great work Thomas Stolberg! Supporting ‘Made in Mackay’, for the Mackay medical community! #mackay #makingitforqld You are an inspiration and a great role model Tom. We are very proud of you and your achievements and your empathy for the situation which so many of the world leaders seem to lack at the moment.

23.01.2022 Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Health - PREDICTING UNUSUAL AND UNEXPECTED SURGES IN DEMAND FOR HEALTH SERVICES - MackHackers declared WINNER in South Australian Award Ceremony this evening - Our entry Cov-ER Me CRA-Z looked at mental health services as an overall response to categorical data e.g. income, education, housing ownership rates etc. We are using Queensland PHN (Public Health Networks) data for a proof of concept. A real world working system would use ...all PHN’s in Australia. Also, to gain a more specific and accurate prediction of health service needs, we would look at local government areas e.g. SA2, SA3, SA4 within PHNs for a finer picture of needs, and ability to aggregate this data to PHN level for summaries and recommendations e.g. PHN funding, PHN mix of services etc. LGAs would be an ideal level of scrutiny to predict more responsively, the unforeseen or sudden need for demand in services, and therefore short and long term planning by relevant authorities See more

22.01.2022 GovHack 2020 will continue on the scheduled dates AUGUST 1416 2020, as a fully digital event! Our aim that we are heading to as we transition is to ensure what... makes GovHack ‘GovHack’ is still present within the digital event. Aspects of these include the mixing open government data, talking with mentors, exploring challenges and also the collaborative nature of working with both existing and new talented people that you meet at events. This is video from our 2019 event! Hope you can join us this year! Mackay Base Hospital | Greater Whitsunday Alliance | Startup Mackay | Mackay Innovation Centre | Mackay Regional Council | Mackay Region Chamber of Commerce | YP - Young Professionals Mackay |

19.01.2022 STEM Punks CEO, Michael Holmstrom, talks to Griffith University students about his meaning of Creativity. What does Creativity mean to you? #Innovation #Creativity #Entrepreneurship #STEMEducation #DesignThinking

19.01.2022 GovHack 2020 - Digital Certificate & Prize Claim (Cov-ER Me CRA-Z) Dear MackHackers, Congratulations on being a placegetter of a challenge in the GovHack 2020 competition! Your project Cov-ER Me CRA-Z is great!... You are the winner for the following challenge(s): South Australia - Predicting unusual and unexpected surges in demand for health services - Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health Please find attached a digital copy of your certificate(s). The winner/runner up placements of the challenges you placed in have a financial prize associated with it! Your financial prize for the combination of places you placed in is $1,000.

16.01.2022 All set up ready for our first STEM Punks Youth Innovation Program tomorrow at 9am. Thanks to Local Buying Foundation - QLD for funding this initiative. One ticket remaining. See events page for details. STEM Punks https://facebook.com/events/s/stem-innovation-program-youth-/282481109709116/?ti=icl

16.01.2022 Add macro power to boost any programming language Ever find yourself using repetitive code because your language does not have the built-in goodies to enable you to make things as modular as they should be? Tired of the performance drag of function calls in loops? Yuk! You have nostalgia of using well designed languages like C that have built-in macros with the preprocessor, and find yourself in panic while struggling through the horrid syntax of some disastrous language like... LaTeX? Well, without further ado, I introduce m4, a language agnostic POSIX macro processor, developed by none-other than the famous K&R (need I say more). Warning: m4 is addictive. Presenter: Logan McLintock, Australian Taxation Office https://youtu.be/yrurIUEGo1c

16.01.2022 GovHack 2020 Conference - Queensland Connections You can checkout the slides at https://bit.ly/2CYAb10 https://youtu.be/ug40zXV_VE0

11.01.2022 All set up ready for our second STEM Punks Youth Innovation Program on Sunday 27th September 2020 at 9am. Thanks to Local Buying Foundation - QLD for funding this initiative. Many tickets remaining. See events page for details.

11.01.2022 In these uncertain times, here is an inspiring short video from Sundar Pitchai, the CEO of Google who also comes from Chennai in Tamilnadu in South India where I hail from. I truly hope it inspires the graduates of the year 2020 ....

08.01.2022 Futuretechs was proud to be involved with this event last Sunday at SplitSpaces Mackay

08.01.2022 A great partnership and worthy of support. Glad to be involved with facilitating STEM Punks sessions in Mackay at Split Spaces

08.01.2022 You know how Design thinking focuses on design elements, Lean Canvas focuses on business elements, The Hacker Mindset focuses on the people and team structure to ensure they achieve their goals. Angela has come up with a one page template so that during hackathons and other innovation challenges (F2F and especially online), you'll be able to build a stellar team that works together cohesively as a team for a common purpose. The Hacker Mindset is the secret recipe for managing... a winning team. Presenter: Angela Bee Chan, CEO of Hackathons International https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UduTWSgecU0

08.01.2022 GovHack 2020 Conference - Exploring Biodiversity Data Exploring Biodiversity Data The CSIRO provides web services that enable websites such as the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) to allow people to explore CSIRO data in a user friendly way. For example:... Users can search through species records https://biocache.ala.org.au Users can search on species names & taxonomy https://bie.ala.org.au The data contained within the ALA has been fully parsed, processed and augmented with consistent taxonomic, geolocation and climate/environmental data. Our data API provides access to over 85+ million species occurrence records as well as taxonomic and scientific name information for over 200,000 species, complete with geospatial, taxonomic and temporal searching & filtering as well as bulk downloads for use offline. Join this session to hear about a use case with CSIRO Open Data. Presented by: Sathish Sathya Moorthy https://youtu.be/r5xyDI3aaHY

08.01.2022 In our programs we teach our students how to apply STEM skills to solve real-world problems. In the 'Food Tech' classes, we explore the future of food productio...n and design innovative solutions for agriculture. Is your school looking for awesome STEM Programs for Term 2? [email protected] See more

07.01.2022 Why you should participate in GovHack 2020 We interview Matthew Watt and Zaidul Alam about GovHack and what it is happening this year as it transitions purely online! GovHack is a festival of ideas, run by volunteers, participants use open government data and solve problems that are important in the world today. Find out more: http://govhack.org/... https://youtu.be/Oa71MRMgEmI

07.01.2022 http://govhack.org/2020-award-shortlisting/ Me and my Team at MackHackers- Aiden Payne and Matthew Skinner have been shortlisted for the South Australian Awards for GovHack2020 for our entry CoV-Er ME-CRA-Z Our challenge name:... Cov-ER Me CRA-Z Proof of concept: Looking at population datasets on access to mental health needs in Primary Health Networks( PHN’s) in Qld in 2011 when we had Cyclone Yasi in North Qld and flooding in Brisbane . https://youtu.be/L2_t40YLLzg

06.01.2022 MackHackers - Cov-ER Me CRA-Z - Proof of Concept We looked at mental health services as an overall response to categorical data e.g. income, education, housing ownership rates etc. We used Queensland PHN (Public Health Networks) data for a proof of concept. A real world working system would use all PHN’s in Australia. To gain a more specific and accurate prediction of health service needs, we would look at local government areas e.g. SA2, SA3, SA4 within PHNs for a fi...ner picture of needs, and ability to aggregate this data to PHN level for summaries and recommendations e.g. PHN funding, PHN mix of services etc. LGAs would be an ideal level of scrutiny to predict more responsively, the unforeseen or sudden need for demand in services, and therefore short and long term planning by relevant authorities. The second stage was to analyse our chosen summary data to look for mental health trends to then be able (within assumptions) to predict surges in demand for health services based on any number of trigger events (e.g. unforeseen financial pressures from a variety of incidents). Which areas of a geographic region and population distribution variable are more likely to need support can then be predicted more accurately. We accessed 2011 data for mental health statistics - wherein 2 disasters at opposite ends of QLD occurred- Cyclone Yasi in North Queensland and the Brisbane floods. Any dataset year can potentially also correlate trigger events to mental health needs in that year (and eventually in a bigger system, other health needs) and any other events too e.g. financial and social pressure from closure of a major local industry (e.g. Nickel refinery at Townsville). Current issues with our proof of concept:Lack of consistency in metrics age ranges in datasets; location based data (only PHNs have been consistently accessible); time based data for correlation purposes.There are some (big) assumptions to be made, but consistent data between states at a nationally mandate level would make the concept very usable. Sample assumptions:Even though we are not using comparable years, other stats (e.g. % low income) are assumed to be similar from year to year to allow basic correlations and predictions.We have assumed for the point of the exercise, some population stats can be used to identify a higher need for health (mental health in this case) services more than other measures - https://youtu.be/L2_t40YLLzg

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05.01.2022 Introduction to Data Science This introductory session will cover why Data Science is important and how it can be utilised. Come along and learn about Data Science tools and best practices for hackathons. No prior knowledge required! Presented by GovHack... https://youtu.be/V8i55Ribgz8

04.01.2022 This Sunday 28th March 2021 at the STEM Punks Workshop at Split Spaces In this immersive STEM workshop participants will practice design thinking, observation and problem solving. The participants will use their skills to be a pet detective and will create their own crime scene using 3D design and augmented reality. ... All programs are developed by teachers and are aligned with the Achievement Standards of the Australian Curriculum for Digital Technologies and Design and Technology. At Split Spaces, this content is delivered by volunteer Industry Experts, passionate educators and volunteers to form links between our schools, local industry and University. This event is made possible through the Local Buying Foundation.

04.01.2022 Looking for an educational way to entertain the kids during Lockdown and Easter? We are offering 50% OFF all our Online teacher-led STEM Classes. Use promo code 'EASTER' for 30 days access. Limited spots - offer ends Friday 2nd April. www.stempunks.com

04.01.2022 Automation and Web integration are key parts of any cutting technology solution. But you don’t need to be a software developer to implement your own! Join Michelle, Developer Advocate from TelstraDev to get started with APIs and start sending messages with their Messaging API in less than 30mins. No coding experience necessary! You will hear how APIs are an integral part of IoT and digital technologies today, and give you the skills to integrate messaging alerts to your Hacka...thon prototype rapidly and simply. Register at dev.telstra.com before the session to explore and prepare for the live workshop. In this session you will: - Gain a functional understanding of APIs with every day examples - Practice using the Messaging API (live, follow-along with the presenter) - Recognise the possibilities of APIs and critical communications Presenter: Michelle Howie, Developer Advocate and Product Specialist at TelstraDev https://youtu.be/JU4cA5JnQG8

04.01.2022 Come join Ash Wallace and Linda Eitelberg, for a crash course on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and what it can do for you. During the competition weekend, you will be able to make use of AWS, so learn what to do to get the drop on everyone else. AWS Basics The forecast is cloudy with a chance of awesome. In this session you will learn about what cloud computing is and where to start on your GovHack journey with Amazon Web Services. Presented by: Ash Wallace... AI Services Learn about the data lifecycle on AWS as it relates to individual challenges, from real-time streaming to data cleansing to Analytics and AI/ML. Presented by: Linda Eitelberg https://youtu.be/PAoGuu2G3v4

03.01.2022 https://youtu.be/4krfIYVUxqE

02.01.2022 Wondering what GovHack 2020 is all about? Take a moment to dream about how you could reuse open government data to build something new and help empower your community. Register for GovHack 2020 here https://hackerspace.govhack.org https://youtu.be/-aOYRiY7Avk