By Mandy Oakham
Danger Will Robinson: an emergency warning has been issued that a rogue robot will be rampaging in the Geelong area this coming Sunday.
Anyone planning to visit the Waurn Ponds campus of Deakin for their upcoming open day should be alert and alarmed.
Forensic scientists of the future are being called on to save the Deakin campus from the grips of the rogue robot, Pixel, who will be intent on destroying the university’s technology and innovation laboratories this weekend.
Pixel’s dastardly plot involves locking himself in the high-voltage laboratory at Deakin’s Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training at the Waurn Ponds campus, and then wreaking carnage.
The challenge for budding scientists will be available to all prospective students at Deakin’s Open Day this Sunday, and they will have three minutes only to save the campus, if not the world.
Using virtual reality, the Pixel’s Escape Challenge, requires participants to wear headsets while following the robot around the campus, in an attempt to catch him and return him to the School of IT.
Pixel’s whereabouts will be shown via a series of CCTV images of him in various Deakin facilities including the Deakin Newsroom, Deakin Telstra Trading Room and finally cracking his head in the Deakin Clinical Simulation Centre.
Other highlights at Deakin’s Open Day at Waurn Ponds this Sunday will be a Women in Sport discussion with sports enthusiast, Bree Laughlin, and Deakin sport alumni as they share insights about their respective journeys in sport.
At the Waterfront campus, Deakin’s School of Nursing clinical simulation centres will show prospective students how to use technology to develop nursing and midwifery skills.
Justice will also be seen to be done with a mock trial by jury on show.
Open day at Geelong’s Waurn Ponds and Waterfront campuses will be underway this Sunday 20 August from 9am to 4pm.
