It had been announced that our College Historian, Mrs Annette Carter, who is also the President of the Collector Historical Society, is the recipient of one of the Awards from the History Council of NSW.

The Collector Historical Society has been awarded the Macquarie – PHA Applied History Award. This is an award to encourage historians to produce a creative work of applied history drawing on their research. Mrs Carter and the Collector Historical Society built an augmented reality app called Collector History Walk.

This app, built by Code and Visual, allows people to walk around Collector and read about the historic landmarks but also to use augmented reality to overlay historic images over buildings and landscapes (see examples in the gallery below). This was funded by an $86,000 grant through the Collector Wind Farm.

Mrs Carter was unable to attend the awards ceremony at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney as she is currently at Ohio State University archives in America on a Fellowship. She was chosen as a recipient of the US$6,000 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program Research Award.