Announcing our new partnership with Chartered Accountants
Behind the scenes as speakers present at the Emerging Tech STEAM Forum, September 2022.
We are happy to announce a new partnership with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)
Launching earlier in 2022 with a series of three STEAM Careers Forums for secondary school students, the partnership also encompasses sponsorship of our Friday Night Socials, as well as a competition for the University’s engineering, accounting and mathematics and statistics students to program content for the Gallery’s award-winning media architecture the Digital Bricks.
This will help us on our mission to increase the numbers of young people engaged with STEM, including shifting perceptions around mathematics, computer science and the accounting profession. Director Dr Ryan Jefferies highlighted the value the partnership with CA ANZ offers in delivering these educational activations and events.
“This important partnership enables a shared vision to ignite creativity and discovery in young people at the intersection of science and art and highlights the value of innovation in finding solutions to real-world challenges.” Dr Jefferies said.
Alongside CA ANZ, we’ll keep working to shift perceptions around mathematics, computer science and the accounting profession and increase the number of young people engaged with STEM.
“By partnering with the Science Gallery, we aim to help STEM students not only build these skills, but show that combining their careers in science, technology, engineering and maths, with a CA qualification can open a world of opportunities they might not have previously considered,” Simon Hann, Group Executive of Education & Marketing at Chartered Accountants ANZ said.
“Traditionally, accountants have been misinterpreted as ‘number crunchers’ but this new partnership will show that Chartered Accountants of today are much more than that. They are valued advisors who help businesses to improve and grow as well as delivering better value for their customers and the community.”
“If you study Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths or Business – with a CA qualification, you could go on to exciting and rewarding careers across technology, business, government or even not-for-profits,” Simon Hann added.
Our 2022 STEAM Careers Forums engaged over 1,000 students, attending in-person and remotely to hear about careers relating to emerging technologies explored in our most recent exhibition SWARM such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data and coding. Collectively, the CA ANZ sponsored STEAM Careers Forums have engaged:
STEAM Careers Forum 1 - Mental health: 3056 students from 20 schools
STEAM Careers Forum 2 – Sustainability: 1120 students from 8 schools
STEAM Careers Forum 3 - Emerging Technology: 1082 students from 16 schools
Alongside the Careers Forums, STEM Centre of Excellence school workshops are also being rolled out supported by the Victorian Government, providing further opportunities for secondary school students to learn about the vast array of skills used by a CA across their career.