Finding the glowing happiness inside
“A small glowing happiness on the inside’ is how Jenny Mackay describes her feelings having spent some time volunteering with EWB School Outreach. Jenny, a chemical engineer at Origin Energy put her hand up to volunteer with EWB school outreach after she saw a...
Sighting the horizon: STEM pathways for foster children
Kevin Gallard National Program Manager for The Pyjama Foundation, is describing the response of Pyjama Foundation staff as they watched ten EWB volunteers from Queensland University of Technology teaching STEM principles to a group of foster children. “I can’t tell...
Bringing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspectives into STEM
Chelsea Hayward, supported by the 2017 MECCA M-Power scholarship, travelled to the Torres Strait Islands with a group of volunteers to pilot some new School Outreach resources. “Streaks of yellow and orange fill the sky as the sun sinks below the ocean horizon –...