A selection of Year students had the opportunity to attend Girls in STEM program at the Ballarat Tech School last week. STEM is a curriculum based program on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The Girls in STEM program is structured with two consecutive program days, in each term in 2021, and is a combination of industry tours, guest speakers, skill-based workshops and applied hands-on learning to support girls in exploring their STEM pathways within an industry area.
The Term 1 workshop was in collaboration with Young Change Agents, a group that helps young people to see problems as opportunities by building their own social enterprises.  Social enterprises are businesses that can make a real difference in your community! In the two day Explorer program run in partnership with the Ballarat Tech School's Girls in STEM program, students explored local community needs, selected issues to work on that they were passionate about, learnt about potential customers, then worked on a solution that they will pitch to a local panel of experts for feedback. By the end, students will have kickstarted their pathway to becoming a founder and have learnt the mindset, skillsets and toolsets needed to be their own social entrepreneur!