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 

 

👤 Posted by: Ayla Xiai

​​Future Creators: Youth in the Digital Age​

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International Youth Day 2025 celebrates the resilience, creativity and impact of the youth around the world.

This year, the theme is “Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development”, as of 2016 the age group 0-19 accounts for 26.1% of Azure Beach’s population.

The youth lead the charge in digital adoption and innovation with youth aged 15-24 using the internet higher than any age group. 

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Azure beach public library will be hosting an arts and crafts event for International Youth Day "Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development"

Participants will be given a blank canvas, newspapers and magazines and other tools to create mixed media art, surrounding the topic of the digitalisation of the modern world and its impact on sustainability.

This event will offer youth to express their creativity, innovation and collaboration in addressing sustainable development in the digital age.

This event is open to applicants aged 15-24 years!

Event details:

Date: 12/08/2025

Time: 3:30-5:00PM

Location: Azure Beach Public Library Main Branch - Library Courtyard

Cost: Free

To book please call Azure Beach Public Library on ​​(02) 9304 7821 or click the register link down below!

Register Now

REGISTRATIONS OPEN!​

By Neil Famador

International Youth Day Event: Fast Fashion Fix!

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Did you know?

Australians are the second highest clothing consumers in the world and throw away, on average, 23 kilos of unwanted clothing into landfill per person every year! Much of this clothing has been barely worn or, if damaged, needs only minor repairs to become wearable again.

If this sounds like a huge problem, well, you’re right. But there’s good news!

You can make a difference!

Are you between the ages of 15 and 24?

Do you have a favourite piece of clothing that is worn or damaged?

Don’t throw it away! 

Bring it along to our special International Youth Day Fast Fashion Fix workshop and learn how you can extend the life of and customise your most loved clothing in a way that makes it uniquely yours!

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Our awesome instructors will teach you various visible mending techniques so that you can make repairs that express your creativity and individuality while practising sustainability and reducing consumption in a fun way.

You’ll even get a free mending kit to start you off!

We’ll also give you a quick run-down on how to use Azure Beach Council’s brand new clothes swapping app to give your gently worn items a second chance! It’s a great way to feel the buzz of getting something new in a way that’s more sustainable in the fight against fast fashion!

Sounds great! So where and when is this happening?!

Glad you asked! Event details are as follows:

Date:        Saturday 17th August 2024

Time:        2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Place:       The Azure Room at Azure Beach Public Library

Cost:         FREE!

If you want to find out more about sustainability and International Youth Day 2024, you can read up on it here – From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways For Sustainable Development 

by Marica Rajic

 

All hands on deck for International Youth Day 2024!

We're hosting a special event about digital pathways to a sustainable future!

Have your say in tackling some looming challenges on the horizon, and clearing away the stubborn barnacles blocking the way ahead... 

Come along and join our roundtable discussion groups -- by brainstorming with a team, you can help us find workable creative solutions to some of the obstacles we'll face in the not-too-distant future. 

We'll be looking at issues like sustainable agriculture, organic farming, and public space design using Minecraft.

 (To learn more about sustainable agriculture, go to omggreens.com/ )

(For more info about public space design with Minecraft, visit unhabitat.org/ )

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If that all sounds a bit too dry for you, you could test your skills in a tournament of the online game Quandary...and there will be prizes on offer!!

(For more information about Quandary, visit quandarygame.org/)

 

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When: Monday August 12th, 2024

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Where: Cove Meeting Room, Azure Beach Public Library

Age range: 15-24

Bookings: on Eventbrite, or through the library's website

(Booking is free, but book early to avoid missing out!)

Author: Hugh Roberts