Change Makers of Gippsland - a Women in STEM initiative

Workforce Plus Inc, in partnership with Sale College and the Australian Renewables Academy, has been successful in its submission to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) for funding for the Change Makers of Gippsland Women in STEM project. 

Change Makers of Gippsland is aiming to facilitate a sustainable partnership between secondary schools, the Australian Renewables Academy and local industry in the Wellington and East Gippsland areas of Victoria. 

Change Makers will introduce young women and girls (13 – 25) to STEM, and, through collaboration and action learning, provide opportunities to co-design and develop solutions to real STEM based problems and entrepreneurship challenges. These challenges will be locally relevant and place-based and will be proposed by the emerging renewable energy and circular economy industries, agriculture and horticulture industries and by sectors that contribute to the social wellbeing and health of the region, including to bushfire recovery. 

Over the coming 12 months Change Makers will work with 60 young women and girls to engage them with local industry and STEM related roles and projects. We are planning an applied learning and engagement model that positions the participants as solution finders for real industry challenges.