Deakin Geelong Open Day to get 3D-printed hearts pumping

If you’re a high school student wanting to go to university and the medical field isn’t your thing, you can also check out what the future looks like from the bottom of the ocean, by hopping aboard Deakin’s $650,000 technology-equipped boat used in research exploring our vast oceans and waterways. This year’s Open Day at both Waurn Ponds and Waterfront will showcase exactly why STEM-education is so important, playing a role in a plethora of career opportunities – from straight science and medical-based professions, to crime fighting and photography. Open Day at Waurn Ponds will be the only place students can tour Deakin’s high voltage lab and immerse themselves in the Virtual Reality CAVE. Current students will be leading campus tours every 30 minutes and staff will host information sessions on everything from courses and careers to accommodation and scholarships. Deakin's Geelong campuses are home to around 20,000 students and Open Day is the perfect opportunity to discover life at Deakin. Use the 'My Planner' facility on the Open Day website to make the most of your visit to the Geelong campuses.

WAURN PONDS AND WATERFRONT CAMPUS OPEN DAY HIGHLIGHTS

> Display of a mechanical skeleton, complete with 3D printed organs, which provides doctors and surgeons with a tactile tangible model to be explored and examined while conducting patient diagnosis and analysis, as well as preparing and planning surgery. The skeleton, to be used as a learning tool for students, will be displayed all day at KE Building – Deakin’s Centre for Advanced Design Engineering Training at Waurn Ponds.

> Deakin’s Yolla boat, normally based at the Warrnambool campus, which is equipped with specialised sonar and GPS equipment and is valued at $650,000. The boat maps out the topography of the sea floor, coupled to high definition 3-D images of the foreshore taken by a drone aircraft. Yolla will be on display all day at Waurn Ponds on the Union Green. 

> Tours of the Waurn Ponds Crime Scene House every half hour between 9am and 3pm. The house provides students with a real-life crime scene, staged with gruesome elements forensic investigators are confronted with - body fluids and blood, fingerprints, fibres and weapons. 

> Tours also every half hour of the High Voltage lab, inside the CADET building. The high voltage lab dazzles visitors with tangible lightning bolts and enables students and industry to utilise Tesla transformers to test electrical related experiments. The system is capable of reaching voltages up to 500kV. 

> See creative paintings by maggots and learn how they are being used to research the relationship between blowflies, maggots and bacteria, while watching them create cool artwork. 

> A petting zoo with a difference will showcase Australian wildlife in the Waurn Ponds science labs. Students can learn about the ecology and adaption of animals to Australia's unique environment, while handling a range of native snakes, lizards and amphibians. 

> Get hands on at the Waterfront campus with pre-photographic technology that led to the invention of the camera. 

> Visit our clinical simulation centre and discover how you can move into a fulfilling career in nursing and/or midwifery, also at Waterfront. 

> Turn up to Waterfront at 9.30am to learn more about our partnerships and alternate pathways to gain access to your dream Deakin degree and to get you to where you want to be. 

> Come along and listen to our panel of Architecture and Built Environment students discuss why they chose to study at Deakin. Ask the questions you really want to know the answers to. 

> Visit Waterfront to learn more about Deakin Law School and one of the few law degrees in Australia with a commercial focus.