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Grow Your Mind

Grow Your Mind allows teachers to teach wellbeing skills in alignment with the curriculum, but also, be responsive to the needs, focus areas and challenges that come up in a classroom.

Grow Your Mind is an online platform that allows teachers to teach wellbeing skills in alignment with the curriculum, but also, be responsive to the needs, focus areas and challenges that come up in a classroom.

When we founded Grow Your mind, real impact was at the core of the business and working with the university really builds the credibility of a programme like ours.

We're interested in real world benefits for our communities, for our families, for our educators, and that's really what Grow Your Mind was after as well. They had worked out some really interesting approaches for students' well-being and mental health.

And what they wanted was an independent evaluation so that they could show the evidence of the impacts that they knew it was having.

They're really easy and wonderful to work with and very collaborative. We learnt a lot from the research team and they added a huge amount of value to our business. As a start-up, this was a significant investment for us, but it has been incredibly valuable.

An external evaluation not only has allowed us to grow our school community and be recognised as a quality assurance programme, but it has also reinvigorated and reassured us that our mission is actually being achieved.

Grow Your Mind is an online platform that allows teachers to teach wellbeing skills in alignment with the curriculum, but also, be responsive to the needs, focus areas and challenges that come up in a classroom.

When we founded Grow Your mind, real impact was at the core of the business and working with the university really builds the credibility of a programme like ours.

We're interested in real world benefits for our communities, for our families, for our educators, and that's really what Grow Your Mind was after as well. They had worked out some really interesting approaches for students' well-being and mental health.

And what they wanted was an independent evaluation so that they could show the evidence of the impacts that they knew it was having.

They're really easy and wonderful to work with and very collaborative. We learnt a lot from the research team and they added a huge amount of value to our business. As a start-up, this was a significant investment for us, but it has been incredibly valuable.

An external evaluation not only has allowed us to grow our school community and be recognised as a quality assurance programme, but it has also reinvigorated and reassured us that our mission is actually being achieved.

Oceanfarmr

Innovation to make farming more efficient, more scalable, more repeatable, and more responsive to changing climate conditions.

Ewan McAsh: The farm that I took over more than 15 years ago, we can't farm that way anymore. So I need innovation to make the farm more efficient, more scalable, more repeatable, and more responsive to changing climate conditions.

Hugh Forehead: Inspiration comes from working with other people from different backgrounds. Solutions have to be practicable, simple, affordable, and the farmers are able to see that it helps them with their business.

Ewan McAsh: Our experience with the University of Wollongong was amazing, it just happened so easily and quickly. There is really good alignment between Hugh's expertise and the direction Ocean Farmer wants to go with technology and also verification of impact.

Beyond the expertise and technology, good partners are people you want to hang out with and work with, so it was a match made in heaven.

Hugh Forehead: I care very much about the environment and about wanting to leave a better planet. Good to help make the technology work and to spread sustainable aquaculture. Everyone has different ways of doing things and sometimes you just get that magical sort of coincidence of two different observations of the same problem and you can come up with something really new and powerful.

Ewan McAsh: Success for me means helping farmers all over the world achieve that kind of result as well.