From individual students soaring to success after attending summer schools to award winners changing the world with their research to transforming how maths and science is taught to students.
Winner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tertiary Student STEM Achievement Award, Taylah Griffith is a proud Gangulu woman who grew up in Gordonvale in Far North Queensland. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical and Aerospace Engineering (Honours) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and works for Boeing Defence Australia as a Graduate Systems Engineer.
Areyonga School won the 2018 Indigenous STEM Awards School Award for their two-way science program, which combines the scientific understandings and traditional ecological knowledge of the Pitjantjatjara people of Areyonga, with Western science and the Australian Science Curriculum.
2018 Indigenous STEM Awards Finalist Deagan Marchant is passionate about medicine.
2017 Indigenous STEM Awards winner Jessica Storrar attended the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while completing year 12.
Winner of the 2018 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Secondary Student STEM Achievement Award, Jordan Salmon is is a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation, an accelerated student and House Leader at Clancy Catholic College in South-Western Sydney.
2018 Indigenous STEM Champion Award winner Marcus Lacey is a proud Yolngu man, a community leader and a ranger for the Marthakal Indigenous Protected Area. He works with Shepherdson College in Galiwin’ku through the Learning On Country program.
Aboriginal Summer School for Excellence in Science and Technology alumni Stephanie McManus was selected to attend a work placement at Boeing Defence in Brisbane.
2017 Indigenous STEM Award Winner Boyden George found an undocumented species of spider on a school trip with Science Pathways for Indigenous Communities in Leonora, Western Australia.
Wiluna Remote Community School is part of the Science Pathways for Indigenous Communities Program and won the 2017 Indigenous STEM School Award for their pioneering Two-way Science program.
Charlotte Cooke, Kaide Uhlmann and Teaonii Aitken attended the Newcastle Aboriginal Summer School for Excellence in Science and Technology in 2018.
Greta Stephensen is not only an ASSETS alumni, she is also the first winner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student STEM Achievement Award.
From attending the International Science and Engineering Fair in the United State of America to being a cultural mentor at the Aboriginal Summer School for Excellence in Technology and Science to winning the 2016 Indigenous STEM Awards, Sharni Cox is on the path to great things.
Students from Quirindi High School investigated how the Kamilaroi People used sophisticated geological knowledge to their advantage.
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