- My role here at Mountain Creek High School
is Head Of Department for Coding and Innovation.
The school was recognised as a need for a brand-new faculty
in support of the Education Department's initiative Coding Counts.
The initiative focuses on the need for all students in Years 7 to 10 and beyond
to develop skills in coding,
robotics, STEM generally,
and the applications of those to real-world problems.
It's all around taking a problem in the real world
and solving it using some electronic means.
A lot of statistics say that in the next five years,
up to 40 percent of current jobs will disappear through automation.
So the big push for us in robotics, and education generally,
is to make sure that kids have developed their skill sets they'll need
to make use of those new jobs that are going to come around.
We don't expect every kid to be a programmer.
We do expect every student to leave playschool with a good understanding
of how programming and coding and robotics generally
can be used in their chosen field.
- The next generation, the world they're gonna grow up with,
the jobs are gonna be in building autonomous robots,
programming autonomous robots.
And the kids get into this now are definitely gonna be
a step in front of the rest of the generation that don't.
And they say that 80 percent of the traditional jobs we have now
won't exist in 20 years' time.
So, for me, I really wanted to encourage my kids
to learn this and get into this, to actually have a head start
on everyone else out there. And they love it.