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15 Aug

Empowering Collinsville’s next generation of renewable ‘experts’

The Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA) is powering up the potential for Central Queensland students to pursue rewarding science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) careers at a future-focused workshop delivered by the education ...

13 Jun

Opening Young Eyes and Minds to Careers in the Resources Sector

June 13 will see the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA) host another of its Oresome Trades Camps in Mackay. For the first time, students in Year 10 will attend the camp which introduces ...

17 Aug

Digging deep: Year 10 students explore their options in the resources sector

School students from Mackay and neighbouring Sarina will compete during action-packed STEM workshops designed to give them a hands-on taste of diverse careers in mining. Year 10 students from Pioneer and Mackay Northern Beaches State ...

04 Aug

Qld girls poised to become resources’ next leaders and innovators

Queensland’s potential resources’ superstars of tomorrow are being carefully moulded by the leaders of today through a unique six-month female mentoring program which concluded in Brisbane today. A cohort of 20 Year 12 students from ...

20 Jul

QRC releases the top 10 hottest jobs in resources right now

“Shape your future, innovate our world”. That’s the tagline of a bold, new digital campaign created by the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) to attract ‘the hearts and minds’ of Gen Z to a brilliant career ...

01 Jun

Tools for the future: Mackay year 10 students become tradies for a day

A group of Mackay school students were mentored by resources industry tradies during a workshop designed to give them a hands-on taste of careers in the sector. At ‘Tradies for a Day’ held in May, ...

13 May

Girls only: Blackwater and Emerald school students try out trades at all-female event

A group of young women from the mining towns of Blackwater and Emerald in Queensland’s Central Highlands took part in a girls’ day with a difference this week. The Year 10 students spent a ...

13 Apr

Shining a light on mining trades: CQ teens experience school camp with a difference

Students from seven schools in the Central Queensland region took the wheel during an intensive trade-based camp recently, working alongside mining tradespeople to design, build and wire a replica site vehicle.

22 Mar

Millmerran students lap up water workshop

Students from Millmerran State School P-10 will today (22 March) absorb new knowledge in water management during the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy’s (QMEA) Water – Yours, Ours, Mine workshop.

All-girls workshop in Moranbah and Mackayand

18 Mar

Trading Places: Girls-only events for would-be tradies in Mackay and Moranbah

Coinciding with International Women’s Day on 8 March, Year 10 girls from Moranbah became tradies for a day at an all-female event where they learnt the ropes from resources industry professionals. Two days later, ...