Upbeat Digital

Such an amazing experience pitching Upbeat Digital at the Female Founders Pitch event! Thank you to for giving space for two women of colour to take the stage and in making this happen.

Grateful for the opportunity to share my work empowering marginalised voices through impactful UX design.

Thank you to everyone who showed support (especially my hype crew .bycheri ) and celebrated the value of inclusive, community-driven digital solutions.

Being surrounded by inspiring female founders and hearing their stories was truly empowering.

Congratulations to AWESOME Arts on such an incredibly successful STEAMED UP program - using artistic skills and creativity with year 3 students at Newman Primary School to support individual adaptive learning and critical thinking skills!

Well done to all involved!

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This year, AWESOME worked with the children of Newman Primary School to deliver STEAMED Up; a process-driven, artist-in-residency program that uses arts practice and creativity to more fully engage children with core curriculum and STEAMED (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Enterprise/Entrepreneurship, and Design) subjects.

AWESOME collaborated with school leadership to co-design a strategic learning plan with educational and skill-based objectives. Throughout the project, we worked with 44 amazing students aged 8-10 years.

We were thrilled to engage .com.au on an evaluation of the community impact of the program. The following are some of the results of the evaluation.

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The team at Upbeat Digital were so excited to collaborate with AWESOME Arts to evaluate the impact of their STEAMED UP initiative - harnessing the power and creativity of an arts-based program integrating STEAM into a comprehensive learning experience.

STEAMED UP was incredibly successful, combining various disciplines to encourage, creative, thinking, problem-solving, and innovation among students at Newman Primary School.

Congratulations to all involved!

What a week!!

Another highlight being picked by the wonderful team ( 🙌🏼 - thank you!) to lounge on stage with Luke Anear - CEO and Founder of tech unicorn for the plenary fireside chat. And incredible business worth $2.5billion, used by over 70k teams across 85 countries revolutionising the safety in the workplace.

Big thanks to Luke for a great week, allowing me to pick apart your entrepreneurial brain, delve into some of your crazy side hustles (did we just become best friends?!) and share some invaluable insights about start ups-

🦄 The driving factors- work hard, take risks, know when to say no

🦄 Failures and learnings - timing is everything (15 years too early on the trolley wheel invention!)

🦄 Funding - build something brilliant that people will use, build your database of customers to get the attention of funders

🦄 Commonalities between successful funders - noticed that many have attended multiple schools, have migrant parents, drive and passion, willing to take huge risks (and no, I don’t need to move my office to my garage!)

I gave KUDOS for Luke spotlighting Melanie Perkins of Canva, a woman of colour founder, for more than a few seconds on this stage

And lastly, the lightening round!
Here are his insights:
⚡️AI for tech: positive or negative?
= Positive
⚡️Wearable tech: trendy or overrated
= Overrated
⚡️Esports legitimate: agree or disagree
= Legitimate for some!! 😂
⚡️Cryptocurrency : invest or avoid?
= Invest
⚡️Autonomous vehicles: promising or premature?
= Promising (especially taxis! And for safety!)
⚡️eScooter safety standards: stringent or lax?
= Stringent