Professor Anthony Gray Legal Studies Workshops Professor Gray delivered another wonderful session for our senior legal students. He encouraged discussion through case analysis to support students understanding of current topics being studied. Students appreciated his approach to empower them to think and analyse Ms Erin Hayes...
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Visitng Author Megan Jacobson Brisbane based award-winning Young Author, Megan Jacobson visited schools across FNQ as part of our Visiting Experts Program. Megan met with students in both Cairns and on the Tablelands and shared her journey as a script writer and children's book author to other aspiring young authors. Malanda State High School...
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Emerging Professional Engineer of the Year 2023 Chloe Turrell Chloe was an engaging speaker who covered a wide range of useful and interesting information including her own pathway from school to where she is now, the different areas that fall under Engineering and the types of opportunities there are in the area of Engineering. She also spoke about more practical aspects of the transition from school to university like accessing financial assistance such as scholarships and using university pre requisites to help with subject choices and what campus life is like. Chloe’s talk gave students a better understanding of...
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WONDER OF SCIENCE Elise Kellett Visit The Business Liaison Association once again provided students with the opportunity to meet the University of Queensland's Wonder of Science Ambassador. Elise Kellet traveled to schools and shared her experience with STEM studies. A PhD cndidate at the Queensland Brain Institute, Elise studies two neurodegenerative disorders, ALS and dementia by looking into two proteins within these diseases. Thanks yet again to you and the BLA for setting these events up! We had Elise this morning speaking to our Year 11 and 12 Science students and the kids said the lecture was really good. It...
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RACI Lecture Tour Dr William Gee Dr Gee visited Trinity Bay SHS on Thursday and delivered a 1.5 hour presentation/ QA session. Students were enthralled and had enormous numbers of questions. Dr Gee was very engaging and the level of scientific content was aimed perfectly for the age of the participants. He was humorous, included some sensitive content which made them feel like adults, but clearly briefed and prepared students for what they were about to see. Even though the talk was about death and murder, the topic was treated sensitively and scientifically. The following day, a number of...
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