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...
Forging Pathways For Women
In Timor-Leste, three in ten people lack access to clean water – essential services and infrastructure are still developing. A relatively low-skilled engineering sector compounds these challenges, and women face specific barriers accessing education and...
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 –...