“We were motivated to invent a tool that would help the community and society, by making an application not just for us students,” said Daniel (Year 11). “From what I’ve observed, our Student Administration Officer takes a lot of phone calls about student absence, and she could have more time to be focused on more meaningful tasks.”
In collaboration with Patrick Chye (AI Co-Curricular Director), students developed an Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant Phone Answering Service for parents or carers to report their son being absent from school.
The Service allows unique and dedicated responses to be fed back to the caller using natural language processing and responses with multilingual capabilities. It’s designed to take 20 concurrent phone calls at once with a calming tone of voice. The project’s intention is to focus on the wellbeing of students, parents, and staff, by developing a tool that can alleviate stress and ensure better time management.
The project was developed by Patrick and a team of students including Daniel, Dominic (Year 9) and Joshua (Year 9), and was later pitched to Dr Andrew Weeding (Deputy Headmaster K-12 and Head of Senior School), Kate Lee (Head of Digital Learning, Senior School) and Chuck Ardron (Director of Co-Curricular Operations, Senior School).
The AI Digital Assistant makes it easier for parents to call in and swiftly connect and converse in their language of choice – currently including various dialects such as Arabic and Hindu, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese, French and English.
From an administrative perspective, the AI Assistant can report and record student absences, collect medical certificates, and present data via a reporting and analysis dashboard back to stakeholders at the school. Without this tool, these operational tasks would be less time effective.
30 July 2025
“Hello everyone. For those who don’t know me, my name is William. I’m a Year 12 student here at Knox – and I’m also a proud Trawlwoolway man from the northeast of Tasmania. This year’s NAIDOC Week is special. Not just because it’s a celebration, but because this year marks 50 years of NAIDOC. That’s 50 years of truth-telling. 50 years of strength. 50 years of celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s identity and resistance.”
15 July 2025
Each year, we collaborate with Ravenswood School for Girls to deliver the Knox Ravenswood Student-Led Wellbeing Conference. After five months of planning, discussion and development, the students and wellbeing teams brought their vision to life on Thursday 26 June.
14 July 2025
Congratulations to the cast and crew of this year’s Senior Musical, ‘We Will Rock You’! This production was a great experience for all involved, reflective of the student and staff commitment.
