Our Year 9 student Sarah Hart has been advocating for Australian youth at the CSIRO Education and Outreach monthly meetings on behalf of the 2025 CSIRO Youth Reference Council.
The Council is coordinated by CSIRO's STEM Together program and Sarah has been an enthusiastic and active member taking on several roles across the Council meetings, and actively sharing her perspectives with those who seek Council input.
CSIRO STEM Together Project Lead Gemma Reid said they are delighted that Sarah has agreed to report Council activities at the Education and Outreach virtual meetings.
This is the inaugural year the CSIRO has established the Youth Reference Council that includes eight high school students from across Australia. Sarah was invited to apply after taking part in the CSIRO Future Shapers Program last year.
"Our mission is to provide youth insights from rural and underrepresented groups across Australia," Sarah said.
"Projects we have worked on so far included choosing from a variety of projects for the CSIRO to launch this year for National Science Week. We ended up choosing the Wild Watch experiment which has now launched."
The Youth Council continue to meet every three months and are now working on making STEM more diverse for under represented groups.
"I feel like adults in the STEM field need a student voice and I feel like they appreciate our opinions and love sharing their research with us," said Sarah.
Keep up the great work!