How WiTWA is inspiring and supporting young people make decisions about jobs for their future.
A visual celebration of WiTWA’s community engagement and signature schools program, Techtrails.
Gry Stene
Inspiring, connecting and demystifying the jobs of the future for our educators
An inspirational group of STEM professionals, industry experts and entrepreneurs meet the students to share their stories and experiences.
The government has just released Australia’s National Science Statement with a vision of setting a long‑term approach to science, providing guidance for government investment and decision making and clarity on strategic aims.
Thank you Kya Graves, Principal and the wonderful teaching staff at Warnbro Community College for hosting our 7th WITWA techtrails STEM incursion for the year. We were joined by Professor Lyn Beazley, Patron of WITWA for our opening session, with Darren Lomman from Bloom Labs as one of our STEM role models who presented to … Read more
Taryn was instrumental in broadening our WiTWA networks and adding further diversity in thinking to our conversations.
Donna and Lucie bring a broad range of experience and a great deal of enthusiasm to the WITWA committee
Sheryl’s contributions, experience and advice helped shape the strategic direction and focus of WiTWA for more than a decade.
Do you have an idea or innovation that could become a high growth business? The Curtin Ignition Program is run by the Curtin Centre for Entrepreneurship and is based on the successful Ignite program managed and delivered by the University of Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL). Ignition is a five and … Read more
Our third WiTWA techtrail STEM School incursion for the year saw us visit John Curtin College of the Arts in Fremantle on 3 May. Last year the school won the WA Secondary School of the Year Award in the WA Education Awards, as well as taking out the Governor’s School STEM Award for Leadership Excellence in … Read more
The BBC NEWS recently published an interesting article on women in tech in Russia and the results may surprise! According to Unesco, 29% of people in scientific research worldwide are women, compared with 41% in Russia. In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia. It appears that … Read more
Our second WiTWA Techtrails STEM School incursion for the year saw us visit Cecil Andrews College in Seville Grove on 29 March. Thank you Susan Kreemer Pickford (Engineers Australia), Darren Lomman (Green Batch & Bloom), Kelly Benson (ThoughWorks), Lisle Nurse (Kinetic IT), Julia Vella (Kinetic IT), Bernadette Bosco-Joseph & Huili Leow (Seqta), Brenda Lai (Feed Mee … Read more
Thank you to our event partner KPMG, our keynote speaker Professor Craig Valli (Director, ECU Security Research Institute) and panel of cybersecurity experts Emma Whitty (Vice President, Information Systems at Clough Ltd), Jackie Shervington (Strategic Growth Manager with BankVault) and Mourad Khalil (Technology Risk Advisory expert at KPMG) for bringing the CIO Leaders Forum back in 2017.
Students in year 11 this year who have a passion for science and technology should look at applying for the National Youth Science Forum 2018 program. Attending the NYSF is an excellent way for young people to assess their level of interest in and commitment to further STEM study, and to start building networks for … Read more
Given the wave of new and emerging technologies which are predicted to significantly impact the shape and scope of jobs of the future, STEM will only increase in critical importance as a fundamental skill set.