The ME Program was proud major sponsor of the 2019 Hunter Valley Electric Vehicle Festival held at Cameron Park Race Track on Wednesday 27 November. Run by the School of Environmental and Life Sciences from the University of Newcastle the Hunter Valley EV Festival was a culmination of several events and workshops held throughout the…

On the 10th & 11th of December students from St Philip’s Christian College – Newcastle (SPCC), supported by the ME Program, represented the Hunter region at the 2019 National SUBS in Schools Final held in Adelaide. In the first time a Hunter region school had entered and participated in the National competition, SPCC students designed,…

The Hunter region was well represented and successful at the recent 2019 F1 in Schools World Finals held in Abu Dhabi with four students from Mount View High School joining students from Penrith Christian College to place fifth overall in the competition. Year 11 students Ben Galvin, Tobias Astill-King, Fei Fei Webster and Harley Patterson…

SAVE THESE DATES! The ME Program is pleased to release the calendar of events for 2020*. Further information regarding specific details for each event will be released closer to the event. Keep an eye out on upcoming STEM Workforce Newsletters for further information! *Dates are indicative only and are subject to change due to industry…

The ME Program facilitates partnerships between Hunter industry and high schools to make curriculum more workplace-relevant and build awareness of defence industry career pathways. It has a strong focus on developing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills in students from years nine to 12 in readiness for the jobs that industry requires, while ensuring…

The Lockheed Martin Code Quest computer programming competition returned in 2019 with teams from Newcastle Grammar School and St Philip’s Christian College – Newcastle Campus traveling to Canberra in August to participate in the competition. Code Quest is a computer programming competition where teams of 2-3 students each work together for 2.5 hours to solve…

RDA Hunter’s ME Program recently attended the Women in Aviation (WAI) inaugural Emerging Leaders Forum and Scholarship dinner with four Hunter region High School Career Advisers to hear about the multitude of opportunities for females in the aviation space. As a corporate member of WAI, RDA Hunter sponsored four Career Advisers from Hunter region High…