Former Pirie man Luke Spartalis wins research and innovation award | The Recorder | Port Pirie, SA

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Design in Design Innovation | 0 Comments

< div itemprop =" articleBody" class =" concealed" aria-hidden=" real" > Previous Pirie man Luke Spartalis has actually been named this year’s winner of the Research study and Innovation Task of the Year at the 29th Lateral INCITE Awards. The awards were open to post-graduate students who were studying their Masters or PhD. Mr Spartalis’ award winning Educational and Virtual Reality Welding job provides trainees with a virtual learning environment where they can find out safety, skills and understanding of welding outside of the class. Mr Spartalis was born in Port Pirie and is a former trainee of John Pirie Secondary School. His proud mother is Karen Spartalis. Now, he lives in Perth where he works as a network assistance officer at Warwick Senior citizen School and is finishing his Masters at Edith Cowin University. Mr Spartalis said it feels “truly excellent” to have received recognition for the task. “A lot of your research study you are with your scholastic peers, once it gets wider recognition it simply feels excellent that you are doing something that individuals have an interest in,” he said. “I put a great deal of effort into building and investigating it and simply to put it forward and win it … it is simply actually incredible.” Mr Spartalis said the concept stemmed from his Masters thesis, which looks at how to execute virtual reality in an academic setting. “It came about by having discussions with the style and technology instructors here and they were stating that it would be excellent if we could teach kids welding and they can go through steps on how to weld and bond securely without needing to get on the machine initially,” he stated. “I create a quick demo and it was truly excellent, so I simply kept building from there.” With trainee finding out interfered with previously this year amid the coronavirus, Mr Spartalis stated virtual truth might be an education game-changer. “I think for some things like an activity that could be hazardous or if the school doesn’t have the resources to do the activity, they might be able to utilize virtual truth in that area,” he stated. “Rural trainees can get involved in experiments closer to the kids at school, so this might be provided for distanced knowing with COVID also.” While the innovation is a work in development, Mr Spartalis hopes that it will be presented next year. “I am hoping next year to roll it out at this school here at Warwick and then beyond that there will be a test bed, then I will establish it even more, market it and see how it goes,” he said. Mr Spartalis motivates people who have an interest in research study and innovation to begin exploring it. “Get associated with any method you can. The things with virtual reality that I began a couple of years back due to the fact that I had an interest in it. I didn’t study virtual reality at University or anything like that,” he stated. “If you have an interest in something start tampering it.”