Category Archives: Outreach

“Wow, You’re a Doctor?!”

By Dr Nirmani Wijenayake and Dr Gabriella Martyn The surprised reaction of ‘Wow, you’re a doctor?!’ was a common response we received from high school girls at the Women in Science Symposium, held earlier last month at the Australian National Maritime Museum for…

ASPIRE Holiday Program–Reaching Out to Regional NSW

By Kristina Fidanovski “It works!” The girl’s disgruntled face suddenly clears and lights up the same way her circuit just has. I don’t get to admire her enthusiasm for long though–I’m drawn away to make sure the group aerial testing their light-up helicopter…

St George Hospital STEM Information Day

By Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith Do you know what career path you would like to pursue? This is a challenging question for most of us, let alone a 15 year old girl. But some of our UNSW Women Champions tried to change this, speaking…