IYD 2025: 🌊 Empowering: Youth & VR Experience ⚡

  

🤖 Step Into the Future — Youth, AI & VR! 🚀

Join us this International Youth Day for an inspiring afternoon that explores how technology is reshaping the way we learn 📘, play 🎮, and connect 🌐!  

 

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✨ Meet our special guest: Shaun Davies, CEO of a leading AI Training Company, will share his insights into the fast-changing world of artificial intelligence, its real-world applications, and emerging career opportunities for young people. 

 

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📚 “Head-On” Experience: Test the latest Meta Quest 3 VR headsets and step into immersive virtual environments that show what the future of technology can look like. 

Event Details 
📅 Date: 12 August 2025 
🕞 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM 
📍 Location: Café inside Azure Beach Library (Wheelchair accessible) 
🎟️ Booking: Free entry — Booking is essential ↗️ HERE  

For further information:  

🌍 Learn more about International Youth Day 💚 

📧  Azure Beach Library  

☎️ 02 9800 1000 

 

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SMASH and LEARN: an eWaste Workshop

Have you ever thought about pulverising a computer with a hammer? Do you want to be told it's 100% ok to smash a phone? Do you want to break things and learn at the same time?

Good News!

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Azure Beach Library is hosting its first ever SMASH and LEARN! As part of this year's International Youth Day, we're partnering with out council waste management service to bring you computers and smartphones that you're not only allowed to break, it's encouraged!

While you take a hammer to computer screens, our local TAFE's resident electrical engineer will take you through want parts go together to make them tick. While you smash a smartphone into tiny bits, a waste management specialist will tell you what those bits are made of, and how you can dispose of them safely and responsibly.

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According to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, The Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australians generate about 22 kilos of eWaste per capita - more than double the global average. By 2030, national total eWaste is projected to hit 657,000 tonnes. This workshop will teach you how to recognise eWaste and help minimise its impact on the environment, all while learning how computers work in the first place.

Great, so when can I BREAK THINGS?

When: Tuesday 12/08/2025, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Where: Azure Beach Library, Cove Meeting Room

Provided: Personal Protective Equipment, Tool Hire, and loads of eWaste you can SMASH

Cost: Absolutely Free!

REGISTER NOW

Have questions about the event? Please:

Email a librarian at info@azurebeachlibrary.edu.au

Call or Text: 0400713931

Want to learn more about the United Nations International Youth Day 2025 and its theme of Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development? Click below to visit their website!

International Youth Day 2024 "From Clicks to Progress: Youth  (Web view)

By Autumn Grant

Clicks to Future Reads: Discover eBooks and Audiobooks

Our workshop will introduce young people to the amazing collection of eBooks and audiobooks that or library has available.

Participants will have a hands on session where they'll learn how to navigate our online library by searching, downloading and enjoying!

By the end of the session, each attendee will become a library member and have an understanding of how these digital resources can enhance learning, accessibility, entertaining and personal growth.

If you are interested to learn more and start your discovery of Future Reads book here now or click the link below. 

Everyone who completes the workshop by becoming members of the library and borrows a digital resource within the session, goes into the draw to WIN a Kobo E-Reader!

Benefits of eBooks for Students
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Benefits of Audiobooks for all Readers

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By Reagan