Page 3174 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 22 August 2017
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The fourth group, Free the People, made up of Sureka Withanage, Daniel Grebowski, Laarni Balila, Genevieve Kenyon-Slade and Sammy Jung, had developed a program to encourage sustainable infrastructure. The fifth group, Action 2U, was made up of Mark Treloar, Brenda Fernando, Kate Urquhart, Chiraag Shah, Ruky Wang and Grant Erbacher, who pitched a hub-and-spoke rapid action bus network, supported by mobile technology to allow users to communicate and to commute efficiently. It was the group Action 2U that won the day with the judges award, while Helping Hand took out the people’s choice award.
Smart Seeds is a terrific program giving young professionals the chance to think about the infrastructure solutions of the future. I would like to thank in particular Ken Snell from GHD, who was the driving force behind the program here in Canberra. I would also like to thank Lindsay McAllister, who was one of the managers of the program. There were also the judges that participated: Michael McGoogan, Josh Polette, Catherine Townsend and Judith Zielke. I would like to thank them for the experience and advice which they gave. The participating organisations here in the ACT were the Australian Federal Police, Construction Control, the department of infrastructure, Donald Cant Watts Corke, GHD, King & Wood Mallesons, KPMG and Veolia. I look forward to the continued success of the Smart Seeds program in the future, and I urge ACT government agencies to also participate next year.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 7.08 pm.
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