Kildare College plans to build a $5.5 million two-storey ‘Innovation Hub’

An Adelaide all-girls college has lodged plans for a two-storey “Innovation Hub” which would provide a “point of difference from other schools”.

Kildare College has applied to build a two-storey Innovation Hub. Picture: Kildare College.

Kildare College is planning to build a $5.5 million two-storey “Innovation Hub” which would provide its students with the “tools of tomorrow”.

The all-girls Holden Hill school on Lyons Road has lodged plans with Tea Tree Gully Council for a building which would “enhance the learning of technical, vocational and trade-related skills” of its students, its application stated.

Principal Tina Neate said she hoped to have it up and running by first semester next year and construction works beginning “as soon as possible”.

Kildare College’s plans include an auditorium for up to 65 people. Picture: Kildare College.

It would enable “young women to enter a new work that challenges the stereotype of a female learner”, the report stated.

“A world of 3D printer and scanners, laser cutters, technical construction and all the other tools of tomorrow,” it revealed.

“The Innovation Hub will provide our existing and future students with a point of difference from other schools.

Kildare College’s Innovation Hub would provide its students with the “tools of tomorrow”. Picture: Kildare College.

“The facilities and learning will enable Kildare to offer subjects such as woodwork and metalwork in an all-girls environment.”

The hub would also ensure that students are “future ready” and “inspire creativity, construction and innovation”, it stated.

If approved, a single storey building used for music and arts, adjacent to Lyons Road, would be partially demolished and three trees also removed.

The ground floor would provide learning areas for STEM subjects and an auditorium for up to 65 people on the second.