World Shaping, Future Facing, Work Ready
Our nationally acclaimed World of Work large-scale education innovation events bring global industry, startup and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, Medicine) business leaders and innovators to 1000’s of students to teach them about 21st Century ways of working, future STEM careers, emerging digital technologies and enterprise employability skills to help them build awesome future pathways.
The WOW STEM EXPO Geelong features amazing global speakers, local industry mentors and an interactive multi-company STEM learning space to equip today’s students with the real-world learning they need to thrive in tomorrow’s world of work.
DATE: SATURDAY MAY 11, 2019
TIME: 12.00pm-5.30pm
LOCATION: GEELONG FOOTBALL CLUB, KARDINIA PARK
FORMAT: PLENARY + INTERACTIVE STEM EXPO
AUDIENCE: high school and tertiary students, educators, parents, local/global industry REPRESENTATIVES, STEM and business mentors.
WOW STEM EXPO PROGRAM!
SATURDAY MAY 11, 2019
WOW STEM EXPO
SATURDAY MAY 11, 2019
12.00pm: Doors open
12.00-12.30PM: WOW STEM EXPO ACTIVATIONS
Featuring Robogals, Girl Geek Academy, Geelong Tech School, Upstart Challenge, Silverpond AI, Headspace, Girls Invent, Deakin University, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong Libraries, Grad Australia, girledworld.
12.30pm: EVENT STARTS
12.40pm: VICTORIAN STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WELCOME
12.50pm: WOW STEM EXPO PROGRAM OVERVIEW
12.55-1.45pm: WORLD SHAPING MINDSETS
Featuring Marsha Uppill Arranyinha, Sarah Moran Girl Geek Academy, Dr Margie Danchin Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Holly Ransom Emergent (Virtual Speaker), Edwina Kolomanski + Madeleine Grummet girledworld.
1.46-2.00PM BREAK
2.03-3.30PM: FUTURE FACING TECHSETS
Featuring Monica Kelly Geelong Cats, Akansha Kapoor PwC Robogals, Simone Boer City of Greater Geelong, Iman Yusuf Culture Amp.
3.03-3.33PM: WOW STEM EXPO ACTIVATIONS
Featuring Robogals, Girl Geek Academy, Geelong Tech School, Upstart Challenge, Silverpond AI, Headspace, Girls Invent, Deakin University, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong Libraries, Grad Australia, girledworld.
3.33-5.00PM: WORK READY SKILLSETS
Featuring Elizabeth Enders Envato, Jo Coldwell-Neilsen Deakin University, Susie Sheldrick Silverpond AI, Mish Manners International Esports Queen, Madeleine Grummet + Edwina Kolomanski girledworld.
5.00PM-5.30PM: WOW STEM EXPO ACTIVATIONS
Featuring Robogals, Girl Geek Academy, Geelong Tech School, Upstart Challenge, Silverpond AI, Headspace, Girls Invent, Deakin University, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong Libraries, Grad Australia, girledworld.
5.30pm: EVENT CONCLUDES
KEY EVENT THEMES
WORLD SHAPING, FUTURE FACING, WORK READY
The EXPO will see 100's of high school and undergraduate tertiary students exposed to a powerful network of inspiring industry leaders, STEM and innovation champions, esports superstars and career role models across a highly interactive day of career education keynotes, 21st Century skill-building and STEM activation zone explorations during the breaks!
Speakers will unpack STEM careers and workplace opportunities, and the enterprise skills they use every day so students can start to understand foundational future of work STEM toolkits and think about their future course selections, tertiary pathways, internship opportunities and career employability.
Through our work across innovation ecosystems, universities, best practice education research and ongoing engagement with 1000's of high school students across Australia, at girledworld know that career decision making and school subject choices can be highly confusing in the senior years of high school. See our Future of Work 2019 series for more on this work.
As such, the girledworld WOW STEM EXPO program has been curated and designed specifically for Australian high school and early tertiary, tafe and higher education students to equip, inform and empower them to make informed decisions about their individual career pathways with STEM and the #futureofwork front of mind.
This is a great way for young people to meet and learn from inspiring career role models who “tell it like it is”, open the door to emerging STEM industries, uncover the job opportunities of tomorrow, and help students start planning for their future career pathways now.