In Newcastle, 2021 NYSF Year 12 Program participants spent two days exploring the University of Newcastle.
The first day on campus, participants met NYSF alumni, Robert King and Karen Livesey.
Robert and Karen, along with university ambassadors, introduced participants to options for future STEM careers.
NYSF 2010 alumnus and Newcastle Deputy Lord Mayor, Cr Declan Clausen speaks to the students from the Newcastle region who attended the 2017 NYSF Year 12 Program during an afternoon tea hosted by The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Cr Nuatali Nelmes.
Participants took part in a range of workshops that covered everything from material science to coding skills used in robotics.
A highlight of the visit was experiencing the University of Newcastle’s SMART Program.
SMART is a science outreach program that has been inspiring, informing, and involving young people with inquiry-based STEM workshops.
The University of Newcastle also showed off their tech. Participants journeyed through a storm using VR technology and studied the sun through a solar telescope.
Newcastle Weekly Image: NYSF 2021 Year 12 Program participants during a virtual reality experience at The University of Newcastle.
Participants were thrilled to test out a race car that was entirely engineered and built by students from the University of Newcastle.
When asked about their favourite parts of the visit, one student said, “Participating in practical experiments was also a large part of our visit, a personal favourite of mine being the tasting of zooper doopers frozen in liquid nitrogen!
“Friendships were instantly created as we bonded over our passions for STEM and learnt about the lives of students across the state. We are all looking forward to encountering each other again in the future.”
With a trip through campus featuring tours, mathematics and statistic workshops, lab tours, and mathematics relays, the participants were excited to finish their final year of school and head towards university.
