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Research has shown that enrollment in STEM subjects are at a twenty year low despite projections indicating that 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations will require STEM skills. Today's event is about enspiring curiosity that will encourage more students to pusue STEM as a foundation of their future.
I was primary school aged when someone first pointed out the constellations to me. All these years later I am still looking up at the night sky. Although now I use Australia's most powerful survey radio telescope. I want to show students how exciting STEM careers can be and ideally inspire them to follow the same path.