STEM

Medallions for exceptional achievement have been awarded to 17 students from schools across NSW, Vic, WA and Qld in the Global Academic Challenge held this autumn.

Brisbane Boys’ College and Sydney Boys High School will represent Australia in this year’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM²C).

Research shows that within the STEM pipeline, the transition from school to university, and from university into the STEM workforce are the two critical areas containing leaks for disadvantaged students. 

CSIRO has engaged ACER to examine the factors that help or hinder girls studying digital technology at school. 

The games created by the winners of the 2022 Australian STEM Video Game Challenge (STEM VGC) were on display at PAX Aus in Melbourne.

With little evidence that technology is improving school effectiveness, it is important to understand what this technology is intended to do, how will it do it and how we will know it is working.