Featured Image: Rotarian Yvonne and two students at a STEM visit to the ANU Biology Teaching and Learning Centre. After the first whirlwind week of intensity on NYSF 2019 Session C, Sunday is for Home Hospitality, which is an opportunity for some much-needed rest and home-cooked meals from our Rotarian volunteers here in and around… Read more
After the arrival of our students on Wednesday, official proceedings kicked off with a visit to Parliament House for the Opening Ceremony. Staffie Ash chaired the event and began with an insightful Welcome to Country acknowledging Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander cultures as our Nation’s very first scientists. Our keynote speaker was Professor Paul… Read more
On Sunday the first round of 200 NYSF Year 12 Program participants for 2019 climbed aboard busses and planes to head home. Now with 200 new science friends from around the country, a deluge of new ideas for their future study and career paths, and lots of great advice from all angles – the student… Read more
Tait Bonito Howdy, Tait Bonito here, joining the Media Teamn at NYSF 2019 Session C from Melbourne. I’m an alumnus of NYSF 2013 Session C and was in the physics group Einstein. Being part of this group at the NYSF consolidated my passion for physics and was key to me undertaking studies in physics at the… Read more
The first week of the NYSF 2019 Year 12 Program, Session A in Canberra is over and what an action-packed week it has been! Here are just some of the highlights so far of the first seven days of the program: Arriving on the 2ndof January, our participants received a rock star welcome as they… Read more
Being knocked back on 108 job applications did not stop Dr Amy McLennan from achieving a highly successful and rewarding career. Our 2019 Session A participants received some very sound advice from NYSF alumni last night at the NYSF Rotary and Alumni Evening. The event offers a fantastic opportunity for current NYSF students to mix… Read more
When Blake, Bri and Max first came to the NYSF Year 12 Program as participants back in 2015, they probably never imagined that they would be coming back 4 years later in the position of Chief of Staff. Thanks to the Student Staff Leadership Program (SSLP), a small number of students have the opportunity to… Read more
NYSF 2014 Alumnus Linus Chow is a Flight Simulator Technician. Unable to enter the course he initially wanted to do didn’t stop him from pursuing his career. Read on to find out how Linus took control of his own future and is now working in a job he loves. “I’m Linus Chow, and I attended NYSF 2014… Read more
The action is ramping up here in the NYSF office with less than a month to go until the first participants arrive for the NYSF 2019 Year 12 Program. The almost 600 students who will be joining us for the NYSF 2019 Year 12 Program this January have been selected by Rotary as community-minded, well… Read more
Brisbane teachers and students of science: want more information about making study choices for science, technology and engineering? NYSF is again running its Five Minutes with your Future event as part of the World Science Festival Brisbane in March. Featuring alumni of the NYSF Year 12 Program, Five Minutes with your Future is full-on science… Read more