Displaying items by tag: STEM

One Giant Leap Australia and EOS Supporting Future Space Leaders with Space Camp USA Scholarships

GUEST EVENT : Celebrating Women in Innovation, Technology, and Leadership

Believe it or not, I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I was in high school. That’s not all that common in a world of ever-changing, endless possibilities. But I knew I wanted to work in technology.

GUEST RESEARCH:  AI has seen a meteoric rise in adoption in Australia in recent months, and it shows no signs of slowing down. With clear benefits across all industries and stages of business maturity, leaders have high hopes for the technology. However, Australian businesses are facing challenges on two fronts: the digitalisation of companies is moving too fast for many decision-makers, and skilled workers are in short supply.

The ACS, formerly the Australian Computer society, which claims to be the professional association for Australia's technology sector, has welcomed the IT and STEM measures in the Federal Budget.

Science and Technology Australia has welcomed the strategic investment by the Federal Government, announced in the budget, to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, carry out a review of the R&D system, and open up a pathway to incentivising business to help the country reach a 3% of GDP target for R&D to secure the nation’s future.

GUEST OPINION Inspiring inclusion is leading by example - doing and not just saying it - by offering equal access to opportunities and resources for all, including those who might otherwise be excluded or marginalised. When you really believe in inclusivity, and demonstrate it through actions, it can inspire others and other organisations to do the same.

Brisbane-based cloud hosting and web development company ATech’s owner and Managing Director Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann has been announced as a finalist in the 26th annual Women in Technology (WiT) Awards for the 2023 Excellence in Industry Leadership Award.

Five Indigenous Australian university students will next week head to the United States for a once in a lifetime internship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, after being chosen for the first ever cohort of Monash University’s National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) supported by the Australian Space Agency.

Science & Technology Australia – the country's peak body for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics sector – is conducting a major survey of people who work or have worked in the sector, with the goal of providing a comprehensive snapshot of current conditions and career patterns for scientists, technologists, mathematicians and engineers.

To mark International Girls in ICT Day 2023, giant Chinese telco Huawei will offer classes and technology programs to teenage girls and young women in Thailand.

Gamified education may improve spatial reasoning skills and shape positive attitudes towards STEM and design thinking, according to research from University of South Australia.

Enterprise software provider Smartsheet is using its sponsorship of the McLaren Racing F1 team to bring attention to worthy organisations by replacing the Smartsheet logo on the McLaren MCL36 with theirs – and an Australian organisation is the first to benefit.

Every year, on International Women's Day, there is a spate of articles about how good it is to have women in various professions and the extent of their contribution to various industries. The next day everything is back to normal: the men dominate the coverage.

Eset Australia will fund $5,000 to a woman enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program majoring in STEM field following its announcement joining Eset’s global women in cybersecurity scholarship program.

It's your last chance to help decide the People's Choice for Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow, alongside the winners announced last week in this great nationwide competition challenging Australia's next generation of innovators seeking to unleash their creativity using STEM to help solve a social issue they are passionate about.

The drone sector has been earmarked as a burgeoning employment pathway for generations as robots, drones, AI, and automation is poised to dominate the tech industry in the coming decades.

Seeking to solve some of society's greatest issues, Samsung is inviting young Australians to create a TikTok video showing how they can use STEM to solve those issues, with a chance to win a share of $20,000.

A lobby group for the science and technology sectors has urged political parties to pledge a sizeable boost in research and development funding to spur an economic recovery led by the STEM sectors.

Women in the professional, scientific and technical services industry face a pay gap of 22% compared to their male counterparts, an advocacy group for professionals says following a nation-wide survey.