Sustainability incursions

Solar car workshops

Educating students about solar power

Ku-ring-gai primary schools can apply to have a STEM incursion that teaches students to harness solar energy for mini solar cars they've created themselves.

This hands-on workshop engages the students in effective problem-solving as they explore how to make most efficient solar car to race on a 20-metre racetrack.

Funded by Council’s Environment & Sustainability, the students engineer their cars using solar car kits supplied by Kite Magic. This workshop is an initiative of Council’s Net Zero Champions.

Solar car workshop

Please fill out the Expression of Interest form below if your school would like to participate in a solar car workshop.

Solar car workshop EOI

Why waste it workshops

Teaching kids about upcycling waste plastic into new products

Council has purchased a special plastics mould and is working with industrial designers/educators Defy Design to turn waste plastic collected by students, into rulers for classrooms.

Lindfield East and West Pymble Public Schools are the first to partner with Council, showing kids real-life examples of how a circular economy could work in practice. Council manages the whole process and delivers a day-long worth of workshops to students as part of the initiative.

This forms part of our Net Zero Ku-ring-gai program, aiming to reach net zero emissions by 2040.

We are keen to hear from other local schools who might be interested in using the mould and hosting a free workshop at their school. Contact our Sustainability Education Officer at seriksen@krg.nsw.gov.au.

Read the media release from the first workshop.

Watch a workshop in action - East Lindfield Public School, October 2023