This month La Trobe University awarded two scholarships to encourage women to study IT. It’s a rapidly growing industry hungry for new talent, yet still, women are slower than men to take up the challenge. When La Trobe alumna Vanessa Courtot studied a Bachelor of Information Technology in Bendigo, she was one of five women... Continue Reading →
STEAM powered women unite for Bendigo Invention and Innovation Festival
Biophysicist Dr Donna Whelan has some words of advice for young women considering studying STEAM. “Go for it,” she says. “I actually can’t think of a good reason not to study STEAM, at any educational level, because we know that the skillset students get from STEAM study is incredibly useful in general, and that high... Continue Reading →