The Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA) has engaged with over 3,800 students in southeast Queensland in the last financial year, delivering more than 100 workshops across 43 schools.
Queensland’s education sector continues to show strong interest in the industry, with more schools joining the QMEA network in 2026, including Moreton Bay Boys’ College, which hosted its first science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workshops with the academy last week.
This news comes amid Aliesha Buckley joining QMEA this year as a student ambassador and discovering engineering and mining.
“And what really excited me was the potential engineering career I could have in the resources sector,” Buckley says.
QMEA Director Jen Hoyle says for students such as Buckley, it can be a “light-bulb moment” hearing from people working in resources and realising it is an industry that makes a difference.
Buckley completed a Bachelor of Civil Engineering with a major in mining engineering at the University of Queensland. She is now a graduate engineer with Thiess at the Lake Vermont operations in Central Queensland.
The QMEA is the education arm of the Queensland Resources Council and an industry-education initiative partnering with the resources industry to deliver STEM and trade workshops.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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