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Francesca Maclean
Diversity consultant
Dr Francesca Maclean is an advocate for STEM diversity and inclusion and a consultant for engineering firm Arup.
Beth Jens
NASA engineer
NASA Engineer Dr Elizabeth (Beth) Jens is making interplanetary travel a real thing!
Dr Jake Whitehead
Change driver
Jake works in transport engineering, looking at the ways driverless cars and green vehicles will affect our transport infrastructure.
Luca Stamatescu
Big Hero guy
As part of Telstra's Graduate Program, Luca is building client solutions with technology - like inputting software into humanoid robot!
Briana Wade
Cyber intelligence
Briana's a grad of Commbank's Enterprise Services graduate program, and gets to seek out cyber threats as a cyber intelligence analyst.
Astrid Jonelynas
Graduate engineer
Astrid got her first taste of working with Commbank through programming their humanoid robot, Chip. Now she's a full-timer with the Enterprise Services graduate program.
Jodie Ward
Forensic scientist
Jodie Ward is an expert in all things bones and forensic DNA profiling, as well as one of 2018's Superstars of STEM.
Gregg Suaning
Biomedical engineer
If you've ever wanted to make a positive impact in the world, engineering is the way to do it. Gregg Suaning has built a successful career creating life-changing bionics.
Laurence Kwong
Fire engineer
Fire engineering graduate Laurence Kwong develops strategies to make structures fire-safe.
Maddison Miller
Indigenous archaeologist
Can a career in archaeology bring you closer to your own culture? Darug woman, Maddison uses Indigenous knowledge to inform smarter futures.
Jessica Ong
BiG aspirations
Jessica Ong is an IT student at UTS using her smarts to educate kids in groundbreaking tech at the ACS Foundation BiG Day In Jnr events.
Goodnight, sweet bot: NASA’s Opportunity Rover ends its Mars mission
After a 15 year mission to Mars that was expected to last only 90 days, NASA says goodbye to its longest serving Opportunity rover. We take a look back at some of Oppy's greatest achievements.
Australian schools could be doing a way better job of saving energy
A new survey has found Australian schools are failing to aequately track their energy usage and they represent an untapped opportunity for reducing our carbon footprint.
VIDEO: Why we need more entomologists
41% of insect species are in decline. Of that, one third are going extinct. These scary new figures show us why we need to have more entomologists.