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A selection of Year 10 students had the opportunity recently to attend the Bees with Backpacks program at the Ballarat Tech School. The program is in partnership with CSIRO and Backyard Beekeeping Ballarat as part of World Bee Week.

The program Bees with Backpacks is part of a global initiative and this year with CSIRO and Ballarat Tech School commenced placing “backpacks” on honey bees in a backyard hive.

The tech backpacks are tiny sensors that record honey bee activity as they enter and exit the hive. Healthy bees are a sign of a healthy agricultural industry and this global project allows us to contribute data to a global research project and monitor their movements and the environment. Students will be able to interpret the data, track local bee data and recognise variations in activity and respond to data change.

Throughout the day students were able to deepen their understanding of bee societies, hear from CSIRO, work with bee data, explore honey as a product and be a part of the launch.