Program eligibility
Adult Future Shapers include, but are not limited to, educators, Elders, parents, STEM professionals or other community members who help young people to build STEM skills.
Applicants should be over 18 and support young people in Years 5 to 10 who are from at least one of the following underrepresented groups in STEM:
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students
- girls
- those from regional schools
- those from lower opportunity areas.
Adult Future Shapers do not need to personally identify as being from these groups.
Applying for Adult Future Shapers is a self-nomination process. If you know someone that would make a great Future Shaper, let them know they can apply.
CSIRO, BHP Foundation and BHP employees and members of their immediate families are not eligible to apply for Adult Future Shapers.