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Girls in STEM

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Program Details

  • Year 8 – 9
  • 60 Students
  • 8 Days
  • Onsite 9:00am – 3:00pm
  • Online N/A

About

Curriculum Focus

  • Science
  • Technologies
  • Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Business & Economics
  • Critical & Creative Thinking
  • Personal & Social

Technical and Personal Skills

Each term will have a different tech & skill focus while developing personal capabilities

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The Girls in STEM program is centred around “you can’t be what you can’t see” and provides young women with access to mentors, experiences and skill development in a focused and supported environment for two days per term across the year.

Utililising the Design Thinking model, the program is linked to local industry and presents students with opportunities to engage with:

  • STEM related industries (site visits)
  • Skill development with industry
  • Real world problem solving
  • Study and career pathways
  • Networking and connections

The learning that occurs, career pathways mapped and the networks made across schools over the 8 days is supplemented by industry knowledge and mentors. Schools can nominate girls and gender diverse students in Years 8 & 9 with an interest in STEM based subjects who would benefit from deeper learning and engagement with like minded students from other schools, exploring STEM opportunities together.

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Students will

  • Discover local industries
  • Enhance interpersonal skills with different peers
  • Exercise judgement & critical thinking in varied situations
  • Learn about, and with, advanced technologies
  • Refine their communication skills
Student Experience

"What an experience! It was so fun working with new friends and learning new things. Meeting experts in the workforce really helped me to understand what skills I will need for different jobs."

Supported by:
  • Mars Wrigley
  • Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC)
  • Ballarat Municipal Observatory & Museum
  • Federation University
  • Central Highlands Water
  • Victorian UAS

The Ballarat Tech School is a Victorian State Government initiative.

All Enquiries

ballarattechschool@federation.edu.au
03 5327 8080

Campus Location

MB John Building, Level 1 FedUni SMB Campus,
136 Albert St, Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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The Ballarat Tech School acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and waters where our campus is located, the Wadawurrung People. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Peoples.

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