Are your students ready to put their skills to the test?

The STEM Futures Forum connects Queensland’s senior secondary students with scientific ideas and challenges that will shape their futures. Exploring three key themes: biosecurity, biomimicry and biotechnology this interactive event is an opportunity to apply their critical thinking, data analysis, and problem-solving skills in an interactive and collaborative environment.

Through fireside chats with leading researchers and innovators, and interactive challenges that model real-world problem-solving, students will deepen their understanding of how biology underpins health, agriculture and sustainability. By uncovering interdisciplinary connections, they will explore how biology, physics, and chemistry converge to tackle global challenges.

STEM Futures Forum is presented in partnership with The University of Queensland

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The STEM Futures Forum builds essential skills for Senior Science Internal Assessments (IA) including:

• data analysis (IA1)
• experimental design and evaluation (IA2)
• research and inquiry (IA3).

STEM Futures Forum supports curriculum content including:

• Senior Biology Units 1–4; covering topics including biodiversity, ecosystems, biotechnology, and evolution.
• Physics Units 1 and 3; exploring energy transfer and biotechnology applications
• Chemistry Units 1 and 4; focusing on biochemical processes, molecular interactions, and the chemistry of biological systems

Beyond subject content, the forum equips students with the skills needed for success in STEM assessment and fosters General Capabilities such as:

• critical thinking
• problem-solving
• collaboration
• ethical reasoning