General News
5 September, 2023
Expo opens up career paths
DOES maths or science play a part of your job?
DOES maths or science play a part of your job?
Students from Cobden Technical School, Timboon P-12 School, Terang College and Colac Secondary College were exposed to a number of career options last week.
The students took part in a day of hands-on and interactive workshops to experience how maths and science were used in a variety of industries last Wednesday.
The program - dubbed Maths and Science @ Work - was facilitated by the Neil Porter Legacy (NPL) with support from the DemoDAIRY Foundation.
The NPL is a local not-for-profit which aims to expand students’ career education and knowledge of the opportunities available to them.
The presenters came from a diverse range of industries including hairdressing, traffic control, animal health, horticulture, hospitality, agriculture and dairy.
Activities included calculating and measuring the daily nutritional needs of a lactating cow, building a ‘boat’ to test how much weight it could carry before sinking, mark out angles for a non-standard roof pitch and how to mix hair colours.
Students each took part in four sessions on the day.
NPL representative Matt Porter said DemoDAIRY were the major supporter of the day, providing resources and knowledge.
“We can’t thank DemoDAIRY enough for supporting us to give this opportunity to the students,” he said.
Mr Porter said he was pleased with how the second annual event had gone.
“I’m really happy with how it went,” he said.
“We had 170 students and 20 different businesses involved.
“The students got a taste of so many different careers.”
Mr Porter thanked all of the industry representatives for being involved in the day.
“All of the businesses and workshops they offered were really good,” he said.
“We’ve had really good feedback and some of the volunteers on the day said they learnt things also.”
Mr Porter said the idea of the day was to expose students to a variety of careers.
“It also shows that people have a stereotypical view of maths and science, but we wanted to show how maths and science are involved in so many different careers,” he said.
“There’s so many businesses that are keen to share their knowledge and resources.
“We’re trying to connect the schools and the organisations.”
