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a male teacher points to a map on a wall as two school students watch on

A purple and orange thermal image of a school playground showing cooler shaded areas

a young school boy holds a laptop with a CAD drawing of a school yard with trees

"Due to the lack of shade, people experience a lot of side effects of the heat such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion."

three school students stand in front of a white board with posters

a school girl in uniform standing next to a sign in tagalog showing images of people affected by heat stress

"They're [students] looking at how this project can spill out into the streets of their area,"
Mr Culhane said.

"We know that heatwaves kill more people than all other natural disasters combined in Australia," Ms Poisel, the head of Lang Walker Family Academy
said.

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