Greenhouse Technician's Course

This week we have been hosting 11 students from industry as they participated in our Greenhouse Technician's Course.

The participants were from South Australia, Regional and Metropolitan Victoria, and undertook the four and a half day course at the Cranbourne Campus.

The course itself is aligned to the Diploma Level National Competency - Manage a Controlled Growing Environment - and saw all of the students studying the factors that have to be considered when controlling a growing environment, and then utilizing the Priva Integro / Connext system to both monitor and implement changing climatic conditions.

Exploring the Priva system.......

 

'The course itself is limited to 11 participants so that every student has their own computer with the Priva Integro/Connext system to work with' said course co-ordinator, Tony Bundock. The hands on approach on the computer as well as access to the live cropping area makes for a great learning environment for the students' said Tony.

As well as the on site theoretical and practical activities, the participants also visited the Flavorite Tomato farm as well as observing the large range of water treatment equipment that Chisholm has within its Water Training Centre.

The course itself covers a wide range of topics and the next course is scheduled for Monday the 28th of July. Further details of our next course are posted below.