Kingaroy State High School has been awarded $10,000 to run a three-day camp for students at the University of Querensland’s Centre for Advanced Imaging.
The Centre contains over $50M of imaging and spectroscopy equipment, and is involved in state-of-the-art biomedical research.
Students who attend the camp will get to work alongside research scientists using the very latest imaging technologies.
Kingaroy High is one of 17 schools, community organisations and STEM-education agencies that will share $160,000 in funding from the latest round of the Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grants program.
Grant recipients were announced by Science Minister Leeanne Enoch on Thursday.
Acting Queensland Chief Scientist Dr Christine Williams said the Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grants program was designed to stoke interest in science and get more people in the community involved in science activities and events.
“It’s all about hands-on science – showing the community the value of science and technology and encouraging our kids to consider STEM as future career paths,” Dr Williams said.
The Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grants program has awarded more than $780,000 to 82 recipients over the last four funding rounds.
Other recipients from round one, 2017-18 are:
- Fifty Six Creations – $10,000 to run a special workshop teaching young people about the skills of the future, including computer science, STEM and entrepreneurship
- Griffith University – a grant of $10,000 to create an immersive installation which will be showcased in public spaces throughout Queensland where the public will experience the importance of wetlands to the Great Barrier Reef
- The University of Queensland – $10,000 to improve the reach of UQ’s SPARQ-ed program
- Cairns and Far North Environment Centre – $10,000 to establish a MangroveWatch citizen science program in Cairns
- Bloomfield River State School – $3000 to hire a portable planetarium and night vision telescopes which will allow the Wujal Wujal community to explore the night sky
- Queen’s Beach State School – $10,000 for a series of workshops in the Bowen and Whitsunday regions introducing students, educators and the wider community to the power of STEM, digital technologies, entrepreneurship and creativity
- Toohey Forest Environment Education Centre – $9400 for its Zika Mozzie Seeker citizen project, involving high school students. The project will showcase the drug discovery pipeline through the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery
- Coomera Rivers State School – $10,000 for their iDesign with STEAM project, aimed at primary school teachers and students, with an emphasis on the nexus between design and science and technology
- Cairns Aquarium and Reef Research Centre Pty Ltd – $10,000 to create a Reef Rainforest Interpretive Centre at Cairns Aquarium
- BirdLife Southern Queensland – $10,000 for its Birds in Schools citizen science project which aims to improve native bird habitat and encourage a diversity of birds on school grounds
- EDLP (trading as Coding Kids) has been awarded two grants – the firm will run coding workshops in the community of Thargomindah and its nearby communities ($9184) as well as in Charter Towers ($9500)
- Bundaberg Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative – $9942 for its Robots, Drones and Sensors: Future Farming Masterclasses, a collaboration between the cooperative and Central Queensland University demonstrating how drones, robots and sensors can bring about big improvements in agriculture
- North Peninsula Area State College – $9390 for its Science Extravaganza during 2018 National Science Week
- Capalaba State College – $10,000 to use Humanoid Social Robot NAO to inspire and engage students, parents and teachers about robotics, science, innovation and technology
- Rockhampton Special School – $9000 for its Special STEM project, enabling students with multiple disabilities to engage in and experience STEM
