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About Future Makers
Future Makers is an innovative partnership between Queensland Museum and Shell’s QGC business. Since 2015, the partnership has aimed to increase awareness and understanding of the value of STEM in Queensland schools and communities, with a focus on the Western Downs and Gladstone regions.
The Future Makers partnership responds directly to national evidence showing the rate of Australian school students participating in STEM subjects has declined. Demand for STEM professionals continues to grow in Australia, as these skills underpin scientific and technological advances, which boost productivity, create jobs and support the economy.
The partnership aims to increase students’ uptake of and performance in STEM-related subjects and careers, while supporting the STEM priorities of the Queensland and Australian Governments. Future makers educational resources, programs and events empower young people by unlocking skills and encouraging career aspirations.
CONTACT
futuremakers@qm.qld.gov.au
07 3153 7848
CURRENT PROGRAMS
Teacher Professional Development Workshops
Teachers and home educators are guided through a range of hands-on, curriculum-aligned activities linked to Queensland Museum collections, research and stories. Sessions are free and delivered live online, via self-paced online courses and in-person in Chinchilla and Gladstone.
Future Makers STEM Learning Resources
High-quality STEM unit plans, activities, images and videos are available to download for free from the Queensland Museum website at museum.qld.gov.au/learning-resources
Future Makers STEM Inventors Challenge
In this exciting 10-week design competition, Years 5–10 students from the Western Downs and Gladstone regions use teamwork, creativity and technology to invent a STEM-based solution to a real-world social or environmental challenge. Read More
World Science Festival Queensland
Interactive stalls, explosive live demonstrations and fascinating science talks take science out of the laboratory and into the community. Future Makers proudly brings this free two-day roadshow to Chinchilla and Gladstone on its statewide tour. Read More
Chinchilla Fossil Finders
Become a palaeontologist for the day at this free, all-ages citizen science event at Chinchilla Historical Museum. Help Queensland Museum experts sort and sieve local sediment to discover and identify real fossils. Read More
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Future Makers - Who are we?
Partners
Queensland Museum
For more than 150 years the Queensland Museum has grown alongside Queensland to inspire, enrich and empower communities. The Museum is custodian of the state’s natural and cultural heritage, caring for millions of items and specimens in collections that tell the changing story of Queensland. Services are delivered across the state through a network of public museums.
Queensland Museum is always seeking new ways to engage with communities and classrooms across Queensland to ensure the state’s unique stories and discoveries are accessible to all.
Shell's QGC business
Shell’s QGC business is the world’s first producer of LNG from natural gas sourced from coal seams. Shell’s QGC business are one of Australia’s leading natural gas explorers and producers, focused on developing Queensland’s world-class onshore gas reserves for supply to the domestic market and international customers.
Shell’s QGC business works collaboratively with local communities, landholders, government, business and other important stakeholders to ensure operations provide broad community benefits, create jobs and business opportunities as we explore and develop gas reserves.
Shell’s QGC business aims to develop a legacy in Queensland which inspires future innovation and business development and builds pathways to employment.
Shell’s QGC business social investment program is supported by Shell’s joint venture partners Tokyo Gas and CNOOC, contributing to strong, livable communities across the Western Downs and Gladstone regions.
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Teacher Workshops in Gladstone & Chinchilla
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