The Speakers

Our Women in STEM Mentors are selected from our team of hundreds of WA professionals volunteering their time to promote STEM careers to students. For any given program, we will recruit our mentors such that together they cover a wide range of fields, industries and career pathways. If there is a particular field or career pathway you would like us to focus on, we will try our best to cater to that. We also actively recruit alumni for each school program that we host.

Format: A seminar where students listen to multiple 5 min presentations from 4-8 different women in STEM, similar to our public events mentioned above in option 1.

Time: 60mins / one period

Capacity: Whole year groups (100+ students at a time)

Venue: Theatre/assembly style room with projector and PA system – capacity to hold a whole year group

Session Type B: Speed Networking (best suited to years 10-12)

Format: Students speak to women in STEM mentors in small groups (2-5 depending on class size) for 5-10 minutes at a time and rotate through 4-8 mentors in total during the session

Time: 60mins / one period

Capacity: One class (~35 students)

Venue: Can be hosted in a regular classroom, 8 tables and enough chairs for all attendees

Please note that to reduce the resourcing load on our volunteers, we ask that both parts of the program be completed on the same school day and back to back (lunch or recess in between is OK). This means our volunteers only need to travel to the school and take time off work once.

As part of our ‘pay it forward’ model, we charge a nominal rate for in-school programs, to enable us to visit less accessible and/or lower socio-economic areas in WA.

• Standard price for Perth-based schools: $1,000
• Schools located in low socio-economic areas and/or outside of the Perth area (at committee discretion) : $0

Option 2: Inspire in 5 STEM Career Seminar – host us after hours

For schools without the capacity to host us during school hours, or looking for a no-cost option, we are also hosting a number of ‘Inspire in 5’ events in evenings around Perth. These events are designed for students in years 7-10 and their families.

This event is a seminar-style experience, where students and their families will be inspired by 5-minute presentations from a number of different Women in STEM mentors. After each speaker has had a chance to tell their story, there is an opportunity for the audience to ask questions via an interactive panel discussion.

These events require a suitable theatrette-type venue with a capacity of 100+ (audio and VC functionality) and the school must be comfortable opening attendance not just for the families of their school, but schools in neighbouring suburbs as well.

This event comes free of charge to the host school. In return for use of your venue, we will reserve 50% of tickets for students and families of your school and organise all aspects of the event (speakers, facilitation, ticketing, market materials etc). We will also actively recruit alumni of your school to be speakers at the event. In recent years, it is more common that 90% of the audience are families of the host school so this is a very attractive option for schools looking to support extra-curricular STEM events.