7 Mar, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: Erin running a Youth Outreach workshop with primary school students in the Torres Strait Growing up on a boat in the Torres Strait until she was 14, water was an integral part of Erin Hughes’ childhood. Today, it’s the focus of her work as an engineer. After...
11 Oct, 2022 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Feature image: Emily renovating women’s crisis accommodation with Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer in 2018. “I’m quite motivated by doing things other people don’t. Being one of the only female students in my engineering classes didn’t bother me. I proved that I...
27 Jul, 2022 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: David on-site in NSW in his role as an undergraduate process engineer with Metso Outotec in 2022. Growing up in Cambodia, David Sea never imagined he would one day be teaching children in rural Australia how to build floating houses like those on the Tonle...
24 May, 2022 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY, Stories
The Futur-neers Forum was a welcome and long overdue in-person reconnection of EWB’s Chapter network after a two-year, lockdown-riddled hiatus. Over 50 EWB staff and Chapter volunteers – representing 16 of the 19 active EWB Chapters dotted right across Australia...
19 May, 2022 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Feature image: Chelsea picking coffee beans in Railaco, Timor Leste during her time volunteering as a mentor on a Humanitarian Design Summit trip in July 2018. Nurse. Farmer. Social worker. Athlete. Biomedical scientist. These were just some of the many careers that...