Stellar school workshops aim to launch more girls into the STEM career space
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AprApril 2021 at 3:01am
Hymba Yumba Independent School year 12 Students Ziphoria Minniecon and Shaylana Campbell with the rocket motor at the Stellar workshop.
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A STEM workshop involving hands-on experience with rockets has been launched at an independent school south-west of Brisbane, with the aim of igniting female students interests in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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The program hopes to foster an interest in STEM among female students
Thirteen more schools in Ipswich, Brisbane and Logan will take part in the program before it is rolled out nationally
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THOUGH she hadnât thought of it before, Sienna Fuller-Chapman thinks she might like to work as an engineer when she grows up.
The year nine student, along with her cohort, is one of the students involved in the first of 14 workshops set to unpack exactly what happens to make rockets work.
Sienna said she hadnât been interested in engineering before participating in the workshop.
âHearing about this today has given me a bit more of an idea of what I can do when I go to university â the different engineering options,â Sienna said.
âItâs very fun to learn how to put all this stuff together â itâs interesting and I might want to do this one day.â