Title: SHELL’S QGC BUSINESS – REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Duration: 09:58 minutes
Description: A video highlighting Shell’s QGC business various partnerships and initiatives with Queensland’s local economies.
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Shell’s QGC business: Jobs for the future
Jobs for the future. Through programs that teach and inspire passion for science, Shell’s QGC business works in partnership with local communities to help the students of today become tomorrow’s leaders, being confident in finding solutions to real world challenges. These programs include…
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Questacon Science Circus. Taking science to regional Australia
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Working with local communities
To inspire a passion for science
Questacon Science Circus. For over 30 years, we’ve been delivering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to the heart of regional Australia with the Shell Questacon Science Circus.
[Audio: Woman speaking – Lauren Sullivan]
It's really good experience to be able to do our science shows for primary schools and high schools, but then also be able to share our knowledge and experience and ideas with the teachers, how to take science in their classrooms to different ages, maybe some fresh ideas for activities that they could do with their kids and the confidence to be able to kind of adapt our site's activities for their classroom.
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Shell Questacon Science Circus roadshows throughout regional Australia. Children interacting with Questacon team. Scene changes to a woman in a red top speaking to camera.
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Lauren Sullivan – Questacon
Bringing science to regional Australia for more than 30 years
[Audio: Man speaking – Stuart Kenealy]
Being out here in Chinchilla, it's really hard to get to good quality professional development. It's easy for the teachers out here to feel isolated, and the other thing of course, is the school sizes are lot smaller, so it's great when a group come out and they're willing to share that sort of experience that we don't normally see.
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Shell Questacon Science Circus roadshows throughout regional Australia. Children interacting with Questacon team. Scene changes to a man speaking to camera.
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Stuart Kenealy - Chinchilla Christian College
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[Audio: Woman speaking – Adriana Zaja]
I like seeing the reactions on the faces of our audience, usually when they can connect it to their everyday life.
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Adriana Zaja - Questacon
[Audio: Stuart Kenealy]
They can use everyday items in class to show a scientific concept and use something they can buy rather inexpensively to explain some of the students that they wouldn't necessarily understand unless they saw it in the experiment.
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Future Makers. STEM events for students and teachers
Working with local communities
[Audio: Woman speaking – Shelly Dunlop]
Together with Shell's QGC business. We look to inspire wonder of science, advanced STEM education and ultimately get students involved in STEM subjects that can help with their future jobs and careers. We hope that the students in regional Queensland will learn to be more curious, to ask more questions, to know how the science in the world around them connects with what they're doing in the classroom and to see themselves as a scientist, see themselves in STEM careers in the future and know that that's actually possible for them.
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Shelly Dunlop - Future Makers Project Manager
Future Makers. The Future Makers program provides STEM events and activities for teachers, students and communities across Queensland, particularly in the Western Downs and Gladstone regions.
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[Audio: Woman speaking – Fleur Steel]
Resources that I can use and implement in my classes that are linked to the Australian curriculum and that are very engaging for the students.
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Fleur Steel - Teacher, Miles State High School
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[Audio: Make speaking – Caleb Kuhl]
It's a really exciting opportunity just by the variety of things that students can investigate and look at. No other area that I've been involved with can create so many conversations and unique responses that students can give in what one student finds interesting another might not, and every student finds something ultimately that they can engage with.
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Caleb Kuhl – Teacher, Miles State High School
[Audio: Fleur Steel]
It is so beneficial for us to be able to access a quality PD in science. Just that opportunity for teachers in the west is really, really needed.
[Audio: Woman speaking]
It's fantastic to see places like Tara and Wandoan able to engage with hands-on STEM activities and see their faces light up with the wonder of science.
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Robotics Futures. Learning science through robotics
Working with local communities to inspire a passion for science.
[Audio: Woman speaking – Tammy Grady]
Shell's QGC business is really focused on promoting STEM pathways for young people. A day here motivates and enthuses students to learn more, to then hopefully pick those STEM subjects and really set their sights on something for their future.
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Tammy Grady – Project Manager, Education & Innovation, Queensland Minders & Energy Academy
QMEA Robotics Futures
Driving student and teacher interest in science through learning in robotics and automation.
[Audio: Man speaking – Kieran Connolly]
I like working with them because I like to know how things work and how to program things. This can all lead to like Mechatronic Engineering, which is all robots and drones and yeah, the really good stuff.
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Kieran Connolly - Tooloola State High School
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Jason Bell – Chair Robotics Competition, CQ University
[Audio: Man speaking – Jason Bell]
Some of the things that they're learning actually applies to everyday things. So, we're seeing like cars using sensors to do accident avoidance systems and things like that, and so the kids are actually being exposed to these maybe university one day.
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concepts well before they actually go to hopefully
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Jayden - Gladstone Central State School
[Audio: Boy speaking - Jayden]
A nice challenge for your mind, so you've got to really think about what you're doing. So, like you can't just throw in some random projects and make it work, you actually have to test, and these things take weeks to perfect. You have to test different things and the one that works the best would be the one to go in your car.
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Damien Kee - Managing Director, Domobotics
[Audio: Man speaking – Damien Kee]
I love the idea that these kids are going to grow up to, you know, to run the world and these kids being smart, articulate, passionate problem-solvers, I think gives me a lot of hope for, you know, for the future.
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NXplorers. Creative thinking – positive change
Working with local communities to inspire a passion for science.
[Audio: Woman speaking]
The NXplorers program revolved around students identifying food, water and energy issues in the community and coming up with creative ways of solving those issues in a 10-week time-frame. The students have an array of projects: desalination, community gardens, composting, were just a few of the solutions they came up with.
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NXplorers. Focused on the Food – Water- Energy Nexus, Nxplorers aims to build awareness, develop knowledge, and provide thinking tools and complex problem-solving skills to the leaders of the future.
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[Audio: Male student speaking]
Being able to do this project was a good experience for me because I could put my ideas to work and also show like this to the NXplorers team and also my teachers.
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[Audio: Woman speaking]
I feel the students went really well with the NXplorers program, they had really creative and innovative ideas that they're able to share with the community at the showcase.
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Prelude to the Future. Targeted training in the NT
Working with local communities.
Prelude to the future. Addressing critical skills shortages in the Northern Territory through targeted training and industry engagement.
[Audio: Woman speaking – Amelia Seipel]
The Prelude to the Future has impacted over 80 local Territorians and their lives and changed their lives for the better, through apprenticeship pathways and securing employment outcomes.
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Amelia Seipel - Employment Manager, GTNT
[Audio: Amelia Seipel]
It wouldn't be possible without Shell Australia. Without their support and their social investment into the Northern Territory, we wouldn't be able to do programs like this. Obviously, nothing is for free. So when you're having that funding support makes a huge part, but also their influence in industry, in the oil and gas and employers to get them to engage in these programs and to take on these apprentices is extremely crucial, because the number one key outcome we want is employment - sustainable employment for local Territorians.
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[Audio: Man speaking – Tom Mitchell]
My name's Tom Mitchell. I've been at Cummins here for four years now. I've just finished my apprenticeship.
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Tom Mitchell - Cummins South Pacific
[Audio: Tom Mitchell]
I grew up out in remote Aboriginal communities, right out in the bush. So, I never really had exposure to bigger industrial sort of things. Shell and GTNT have definitely given this opportunity to take something on that I didn't even really know about, which is helping where I am today and achieve things that sort of no one from where I'm from has done before. Shell's helped a lot, sponsored the whole thing and go on to young people like me and said that, you know, "You guys are the future," and giving me the sort of the support that you wouldn't normally get. I've got a great career here, definitely a great future. I've come a long way and definitely tell my friends how proud of myself I am all the time.
[Audio: Amelia Seipel]
Shell Australia through the Prelude to the Future has changed people's lives for the better. Their social investment has given people hope and opportunity where they're able to undertake a training opportunity where they can get some formal qualifications and secure employment and ongoing employment. But then it's also changing the lives of not only themselves but their families where we've had participants where there've been generations of welfare-dependent they're now tax-paying employees and now changing and becoming examples and role models for family members and friends.
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Health-E-Regions. Improving educational outcomes.
Working with local communities
To improve student outcomes
[Audio: Woman speaking – Beth Eden]
I can see every day that there's barriers to accessing speech and language therapy in rural settings and the Health-E-Regions Tele-health really assists with the access to those services that students need.
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Beth Eden - Speech Pathologist, Department of Education
Health-e-Regions
Health-e-Regions aims to improve health, wellbeing and educational outcomes for regionals students, their families and the wider Western Downs community through online telehealth.
[Audio: Woman speaking - Sally Harth]
Health-e-Regions has been a huge benefit for our family. It's convenience, it's access to quality therapists, which impacts the day-to-day life with my children with clarity of speech improvement in communication skills.
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Sally Harth - Parent, Chinchilla
[Audio: Woman speaking – Melissa Verdon]
Whereas if kids were going away offsite to a service, the communication between that therapist and the classroom and the school is not as easy to do.
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Melissa Verdon – Support Teacher, Chinchilla State School
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[Audio: Woman speaking – Tara Fisher]
Our school only has about 30 kids, so I didn't think we'd even get a look-in at big programs like this, taking interest in now in our children, but it has and it's just phenomenal. They've grown leaps and bounds from starting it with having a significant stutter to now in Year One, barely ever hearing it is just amazing and it's impacted that social skills and they're so much more happy to communicate with both teachers and friends and their parents, and it's just made a really good impact, which makes us feel good because at the end of the day, as teachers, we only want the best for the kids that we're teaching them. You can definitely see the change that's happened.
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Tara Fisher - Teacher, St Joseph’s School, Tara
Students are so much more happy communicating
Real impact we are seeing
[Audio: Woman speaking]
And the impact that we can see on the educational outcomes of students because of this program is amazing.
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Shell’s QGC business. Jobs for the Future
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