July 20, 2021 9:45
Southern Cross Austerero’s (SCA) charity inititiative, SCA Embrace, has provided more than $110 million to its partner charities, Beyond Blue and The Smith Family.
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SCA Embrace, the company’s national charity initiative, has provided more than $110 million in-kind for its partner charities, The Smith Family and Beyond Blue, over a two and a half year period.
The charity program, which wrapped up its latest partnerships at the end of June, works in two-year cycles, with SCA providing in-kind advertising campaign support for its selected charities, while also encouraging its teams to get behind charity-based events and activities.
Australian Entrepreneur Turns Award-Winning Cloud Platform Into Digital Career
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Blake Garrett, CEO of School Bytes, never envisioned that winning a high school tech competition would lead to his founding a cloud-based company that streamlines daily administrative tasks for 440 educational institutions in Australia.
SAP ANZ launched Young ICT Explorers (YICTE) competition for students across Australia to help stoke the region’s next generation of STEM leaders.
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Fascinated by technology throughout his school years, Garrett had already been working on a solution to automate paper-based front office processes that he saw first-hand at Chatsworth High School. With his teacher’s encouragement, Garrett entered his project in the 2015 Young ICT Explorers (YICTE) competition, going on to win at the national level. He credited the valuable feedback from both judges and other entrants with helping him iterate and scale what has now become Sydney-based School Byte