Gap Youth Centre in Alice Springs, Northern Territory | Community organisation

Gap Youth Centre

Locality: Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 8 8952 3927

Address: 91 - 93 Gap Rd 0870 Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.gyc.org.au/

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25.01.2022 Four reasons our children should learn to code: 1. Coding cultivates resilience and persistance. It teaches kids how to fail gracefully as well as learn from their mistakes. The coding process helps children retrace their steps, assess the issue and then create plans for recovery. This is an advanced life skill. ... 2. Coding will help our children become confident problem solvers, and it needs to be encouraged to help prepare their minds for the challenges out there. 3. Coding improves creative thinking. We must always remember; creativity is part of the process and not always the product. 4. And coding is fun! If your kid didn't make it to Coding Bootcamp at the Gap Youth Centre this April School Holiday, no worries at all. July is just around the corner. Call 89523927 and secure a seat in advance for your kid, and we'll see you in July.

24.01.2022 It’s a wrap guys! April Holiday Coding Bootcamp was awesome. We look forward to seeing you at Bootcamp again in July.

20.01.2022 OSHC kids dreaming of their bright futures!!

18.01.2022 Gappies rocked naidoc this year with another incredible canvas!

17.01.2022 CodeGap is open to all young people in our community, and in line with the Gap’s mission, creating our future, we welcome all young people into our programs. We encourage all young people in our community to be involved and we look forward to you registering yourself, if you are a young person, or your child ,if you are a parent for our program for the July school holiday program... ~Michelle Krauer, CEO

17.01.2022 HEY KIDS GET EXCITED, our Summer Holiday program kicks off from the 20th December with FREE entry events happening at least twice a week for 6 weeks! SPLA...SH SUNDAYS are on EVERY Sunday from 20 Dec - 24 Jan FREE Entry from 5.30pm - 8.30pm FREE BBQ Inflatables + Waterslides + MORE WET WEDNESDAYS are on EVERY Wednesday from 23 Dec - 27 Jan FREE Entry from 12pm - 4pm FREE BBQ Waterslides Stay tuned for more event dates or visit https://alicesprings.nt.gov.au//aquatic-lei/aquatic-events

16.01.2022 Have you signed your kids up yet for April School Holiday Coding Bootcamp?

15.01.2022 Wow what a week @ Gap CodeGap - coding Bootcamp was amazing. A huge shout out to EJ Bollie for running a highly successful coding program with our kids. ... In less than 12 hours EJ taught these kids 2 coding languages, and they developed their own web pages. These kids are amazing and with EJ they have achieved way beyond expectations. We look forward to continuing to work with EJ, to inspire these kids and to create their futures. Thanks EJ Bollie, you are such an inspiration and now a Gappie forever.

14.01.2022 We are doing some important evaluation around our FASD Health Promotion TV and radio ads and we want to hear from you! All you need to do is click on the link b...elow, and fill in the quick and simple survey. Your responses will help us in shaping future public health messages. http://uwa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1zf6AlAd2Hdhjff

07.01.2022 OSHC- Children’s week 2020

05.01.2022 OSHC kids reaching for the stars!

04.01.2022 Teamwork @ Coding Bootcamp These young developers came together as a team to resolve accessibility issues affecting their web contents. They found the bugs ! Bootcamp is fun! Come down to the Gap today and register your kid or call 89523927

03.01.2022 In an incredible act of generosity, traditional owners have gifted Territorians an early Christmas present in the form of a new walking and cycling track at Emi...ly Gap. Traditional owners of the Yeperenye/Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park are using the rent they get for the park to fund a new public trail between Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) and Atherrke (Jessie Gap) in the East MacDonnell Ranges. The gift will create employment for Aboriginal workers, and is the biggest investment by an Aboriginal group in public infrastructure. We want to share the place with everyone, and let them know that the community planned and funded it with our rent money, traditional owner Lynette Ellis said. The trail will create employment in trail construction, interpretive signage and repair and maintenance, as well as attract tourists to the sacred site 10 kilometres east of Alice Springs. Tourists should experience the East MacDonnell Ranges as well as the West Macs, Ms Ellis said. Traditional owners will spend more than $330,000 of their NT parks rent to construct the 7.2 kilometre dual usage trail. It will feature wheelchair access sections at both the Emily Gap and Jessie Gap ends, as well as seating at rest points. It’s so the old people and those who aren’t mobile can also come to the site, Ms Ellis said. The park is home to significant dreamings, the place where the three caterpillar songlines Yeperenye [Yep-ah-RIN-ya], Ntyarlke [N-CHAYL-ka] and Utnerrengatye [OOT-ner-ung-utch] intersect. The trail is an act of generosity by the traditional owners that will provide a welcome boost to the tourism industry at a time it needs it most, Central Land Council chief executive Joe Martin-Jard said. The CLC engaged Alice Springs company Tricky Tracks to manage the construction. The company plans to hire four workers from the community to build the trail by following the natural contours of the landscape and causing minimal disturbance to the environment. They will train them in trail alignment and gradient selection, use of hand tools, erosion management and construction techniques. I’m looking forward to learning new skills for my future, so I can work in construction, said Grant Alice from Amoonguna. Mr Alice is also a member of the traditional owner group that allocated the funds and planned the project with the CLC’s community development program. The NT Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security’s Parks and Wildlife division is partnering with the CLC on the project. Parks and Wildlife will provide interpretive signage at the trail heads along with trail marking and will repair and maintain the trail, providing ongoing employment opportunities for those acquiring the skills during construction. This is the third substantial investment the Yeperenye traditional owners have made to enhance the visitor experience at the park. Two years after installing seats and picnic tables worth $23,000 at Anthwerrke in 2015, the group spent $34,000 of their rent income to develop the Territory’s first interactive visitor app by traditional owners. The Anthwerrke Experience app walks visitors and tourists through the area’s most significant dreaming sites, ecology and cultural history. Ms Ellis has many more enterprising ideas for her community to build on the momentum of the trail. We would like to run guided tours and have Aboriginal rangers caring for country here too, and an art centre visitors can enjoy at Amoonguna.

02.01.2022 NAIDOC Week Family Night and BBQ @ GYC from 5pm Come down this Friday evening from 5pm and join us for a feed, games, Street Soccer and more