A ROBOTICS mission to Mars has opened a whole world of possibility for students like Johannah Havran and Isabelle Fishlock.
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A four-day EXITE Camp drew together girls across Ballarat who have a keen interest in science, technology, mathematics and engineering to spark their interest for pursuing a career of the future.
This included the chance to take part in a cutting edge mission to Mars, encouraging participants to work as a team and draw on their strengths to complete the mission.
Ballarat Clarendon College’s Johannah Havran said each participant had her role in the mission but for a successful mission they had to work together to control the robot.
“It’s been really nice to meet new people from different schools who have the same interests and to work together,” Johannah said.
EXITE, hosted by IBM, also offered the girls the chance to learn about artifical intelligence, how to write code and have fun with virtual reality.
Girls also met one-on-one with community leaders in STEM careers and business. The aim was to inspire the girls to consider how they could be creative in their future careers as leaders in giving back to the community.
“This has been great. I’m open to (studying) all different kinds of science at the moment,” Isabelle said.”We have a better understanding for the different kinds of jobs we can get into.”
Participants were from years seven to 10 and based at Ballarat Tech School for the event.
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