30 Mar, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been practising engineering and sustainably managing Country for over 70,000 years. But in the engineering sector, the number of Indigenous engineers employed in Australia remains low. How can we attract this critical...
30 Mar, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Pictured: Year 10 school students at the inaugural Innovation Challenge held in November 2022. An annual STEM outreach event that explores and showcases the opportunities possible in STEM careers brought 60 high-school students from three schools across Victoria...
28 Mar, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Pictured: A Youth Outreach workshop at a primary school in Western Australia. From Busselton on the southwest edge of Australia to the Torres Strait Islands in the far north, EWB Australia’s Regioneering program sprung well and truly back into action in 2022.Through...
4 Jan, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Pictured: EWB’s Sanitation in Challenging Environment program is a focus of Leandra’s PhD. A soon-to-be-published PhD thesis takes learnings from EWB’s Sanitation in Challenging Environment program to investigate the interlocking and compounding complexities that...
20 Dec, 2022 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Pictured: EWB Australia staff and Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation staff at the 2022 EWB Challenge Showcase in Cairns. Public bins built from recycled plastic bricks; a citizen’s wildlife reporting app; and a fish trap inspired by the Rainbow Serpent dreamtime...
13 Dec, 2022 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Caption: Youth Outreach volunteers convene at the Futur-neers Forum in Melbourne (April 2022). A year of targeted investment in EWB’s volunteer-driven Youth Outreach program placed a strong focus on impact evaluation and shaping the “next era” of outreach at EWB. The...
