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Aaron Hongvilai started his design journey at Billy Blue. His designs blend art, music, tech and innovation Imagine creating a space, infusing it with beauty
Cristy Burne October 15, 2025
Who says that STEM careers can’t also be creative? We’ve interviewed the people who have successfully bridged STEM and the arts to create ‘STEAM’ careers. Meet creative people using STEM skills everyday in music, movies, arts and crafts, and discover how STEM and creativity can go hand in hand!
Aaron Hongvilai started his design journey at Billy Blue. His designs blend art, music, tech and innovation Imagine creating a space, infusing it with beauty
Kelvin O’Shea’s days are all about being creative and solving problems. As a product designer for Microsoft, Kelvin O’shea’s challenge is to make it easy
Emily Calandrelli, STEM TV star aka @thespacegal, is a former MIT engineer turned science communicator
As the Learning Innovation Specialist at Te Papa, Jessie works with schools to empower educators when delivering the digital technologies curriculum.
Apart from creating cool exhibitions, Te Papa’s Head of Experience Design and Content, Frith Williams, is an advocate for the A in STEAM.
Lily Serna is a data analyst at Atlassian turned TV presenter for SBS’ ‘Letters and Numbers’. Find out why Lily loves maths, how she forged such an unusual career path, and why she thinks the phrase “I’m not good at maths” should be banned.
Preethika Mathan won the UNSW Bragg prize 2018 with her piece about how technology could improve the lives of those living with disability.
You can catch Vanessa Hill on YouTube channel BrainCraft for fun and informative videos on quirky science and psychology
We met up with Lee Constable, presenter for the popular Channel 10 show Scope to find out how she managed to carve out such a creative career.
Mitchell Torok is the Rosny College student from Tasmania that took out the Engineering award in this year’s BHP Foundation Science and Engineering Awards alongside his cousin Isaac Brain.
Antonia Gauci is a music producer, audio engineer and musical artist working with some of the biggest Aussie and international acts.
Software engineering grad Renee Noble is a full-stack developer for tech education start-up Grok Learning and director of the Girls’ Programming Network.
Alyona Medelyan, CEO of analytics tool Thematic, has combined her computer science and linguistics skills to co-found an innovative start-up.
