RMIT Student for a Day 2025

This is your chance to revive your favourite clothes. In this workshop, you’ll gain sustainable, hands-on skills for repairing clothing. These practical techniques are a glimpse of the waste reducing initiatives taught in fashion and textile studies at RMIT. 

What are the benefits and costs of the AI revolution on the environment? We can help you find the answer. This is your chance to find out the environmental pros and cons of AI, and experience what it’s like to study sustainability at RMIT.  

Discover the tools used to visualise data and simulate spaces in the world of landscape architecture. See first-hand how overhead projectors and sandboxes are used to create interactive, evolving landscapes. 

Learn the basics of project management, then use them in a race around campus. Put your skills to the test while exploring RMIT, in a competition against other students. 

Do you know why starch and protein are essential to your diet? Experience laboratory technology that will blow your mind, you’ll conduct hands-on, food-based experiments and find out more about the nutrients that make your body tick.  

Experience screen and media skills in this workshop that shows you how a TV game show is made. You’ll have a front row seat to see how its filmed and you’ll even see into the control room. Discover how graphics, replays and vision mixers are used to bring it all together. 

Lego is the perfect tool for creating inspiring objects – cars, castles and, of course, solutions to business problems. In this workshop you’ll building your business skills by using Lego to find solutions to leadership and management challenges. 

In this workshop you’ll experience “Nailed It!” – an innovative virtual reality construction game that immerses you in building and construction. This is your chance to try out the basics of building, such as framing a window section, connecting electrical appliances in a home setting and more.

Get a taste of RMIT’s Bachelor of Business and discover how behavioural economists uncover the hidden forces behind the choices we make every day. Explore famous decision traps, which can lead to errors in reasoning, and test your instincts in fun, live games at the Behavioural Business Lab! 

Learn how judges decide legal questions, then apply your new knowledge in exercises that highlight the challenges involved. This workshop gives you glimpse at what it’s like to study law at RMIT, working with fundamental legal principles in a practical and engaging way. 

Get practical with cutting-edge computing in the Visualisation Lab! Experience RMIT’s computing technologies up close, from immersive virtual reality headsets and large-screen interactive games, to piloting virtual helicopters in high-fidelity simulators.  

Get a taste of the future and learn how you can make the most of the latest innovative technology with Apple’s Extended Reality tech. This is also your chance to see what’s offered in RMIT’s Apple Foundation Program.  

Turn waste into energy, or in other words, use recycled biomass-derived materials to create your very own supercapacitor electrodes! This chemical and environmental engineering workshop will show you how important supercapacitors are for powering our everyday lives.  

In this workshop you’ll experience what it’s like to craft, send and decode an encrypted message. Along the way, you’ll learn a bit about computing, software and electrical engineering, like how data travels through the air and how engineers keep communications safe.