PhD candidate from our team Josie Humphries has been accepted into the 'Wonder of Science Young Science Ambassador' program, and has been participating in school visits to foster a STEM culture in Queensland schools.
The role of the Young Science Ambassadors is to visit participating schools and work with students from grade 4 to 9 on a range of STEM-focused challenge tasks, which culminate in the development of a research project. The best projects from each year group are chosen by the schools and have the opportunity to attend a regional conference in their local area.
Between now and November Josie will be visiting schools and attending regional and state student conferences as a YSA. This last week Josie attended Miles regional student conference where the YSAs judged the students challenge task projects, put on workshops, and took part in Q&A sessions with children in grades year 4-7 from schools from the Darling Downs Region.
Next week she'll be visiting three different schools in the Rockhampton/Gladstone area and giving lessons to 11 different classes of students between grade 4 and 6.
Josie says that the children and teachers are so enthusiastic and willing to get involved, it’s a joy to be part of!!
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