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Four Year 10 girls, Mia Passauer-Jones, Gianna Morello, Stella Fritsche and Gael Chizungu, were recently selected to participate in the STEM Girls program on behalf of the College. STEM Girls is a University of South Australia program encouraging girls to continue the study of Science and Mathematics throughout their schooling and into university. The program consists of two inquiry days at UniSA in Mount Gambier with other local schools and culminates with a 2 day conference in Adelaide in August. The range of opportunities the girls will be exposed to include:

• enhancing knowledge and understanding of STEM concepts
• forming networks with like-minded peers
• meeting and networking with women in STEM careers
• providing career information to support a STEM career pathway.

The students enjoyed the first day held last week where they investigated mathematical modelling of population growth and then learnt how to interpret this data and apply it to controlling infectious disease and vaccinating the world. In the second workshop they learnt about the importance of blood in the human body and the genetics of blood disorder.

Bernadette Fisher | Science Teacher