Student Experience Day is an engaging and immersive way for Year 11-12 students to explore their fields of interest on a university campus.
Students choose a study stream for the day, consisting of interactive sessions led by USQ's team of academics. Students will also learn about pathways and scholarships. Our current students are involved throughout the day, offering high school students the opportunity to learn about their journey to university.
* Student Experience Days are funded through the Commonwealth Government’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), to improve the access, participation and success of students from communities under-represented in higher education and are subject to approval each year.
* Student Experience Days are funded through the Commonwealth Government’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), to improve the access, participation and success of students from communities under-represented in higher education and are subject to approval each year.
Program Schedule
| Time | Activity |
| 8:15am |
Arrival and registration |
| 9:30am | Welcome and housekeeping |
| 9:40am | Announcement of Sessions and Introduction of Student Ambassadors |
| 10:00am | Morning Tea |
| 10.15am | Session 1 |
| 11:45am | Lunch (Will be provided and served outside of Auditorium) |
| 12:25pm | Student to reconvene in Auditorium |
| 12:35pm | Session 2 |
| 2:05pm | Students return to Auditorium |
| 2:30pm | Event Closes |
Students are to select one Area of Study to attend in the morning (Session 1) and one Area of Study to attend in the afternoon (Session 2)
(For example: Session 1: Aviation and Session 2: Commerce)
| Area of Study | Session Title | Session Description |
| Agricultural Science | Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture | Mitigating the climate change impacts on agriculture: Become an agricultural scientist and use advanced computational simulation platforms to develop strategies that will minimise the impact of climate change on agricultural production. |
| Aviation
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A Leading Edge Session for the Future Aviation Professionals | Students will be exposed to the wonderful world of modern aviation, including areas of specialist expertise and the needs for this industry in the 21st century. There will be an opportunity for hands-on experience with students being exposed to the reality of aviation.
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| Business Management | Who's the Boss? Management Styles & Your Personality | Students will discover the impact of management from study through to a chosen career and learn how personality traits can influence management styles.
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| Career Mapping | Future Fit | Robots, AI, continual technological innovations, freelancing, a global work force, flexible working arrangements – the world of work is changing rapidly. How will your senior and tertiary studies connect to and prepare you for this future, and what strategies will help you to shape up for the exciting opportunities that lie ahead? Together we will explore these questions and the approaches that will help you to become Future Fit.
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| Commerce
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The Future of Professional Careers in Commerce | Accounting, Economics and Finance make up the world of commerce. If you want a challenging and dynamic career in the future come along and find out how to succeed in this world. Students will be surprised to discover how studying commerce can lead to many intriguing and lucrative career paths. Become a professional that operates at the leading edge of technology and business.
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| Education | Teaching in the 21st Century - Exploring Education | This study area will open your mind to the possibilities that exist in the education sector. Working with teacher practitioners you’ll learn about the attributes, knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to be a great teacher in the 21st century.” Why Teach? Qualities of effective teaching, What does becoming a teacher look like to you?
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| Engineering & Built Environment | Surveying and Spatial Science - the Mini Marree Man | The Marree Man is a 2.7km long geoglyph in the desert in South Australia that appeared in 1998. No one knows who put it there, or why, but it has always been speculated that it could only have been made with the assistance of GPS technology. In this experience, students can mark out their very own version using current GPS technology, but obviously a bit smaller in size! To conclude we’ll take some drone photos of the finished products, weather permitting.
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| Engineering & Built Environment | Building Strong Structures - Experience Real Civil Engineering! | There will be a quick presentation on what a Civil Engineer does and the variety of work and challenges they undertake. Students will be given a small scale civil engineering bridge design project to undertake as a group. Students will see some real engineering testing equipment that will break timber and concrete to test the strength of engineering designs. Students will also have the chance to try state of the art Virtual Reality Units so they can imagine themselves in a real engineering situation.
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| Engineering & Built Environment | Robotic Solar Panel Cleaner | Students will be introduced to a microprocessor design and programming exercise which culminates in the control and operation of a solar panel cleaning vehicle. In this exercise students will review an electrical drive system for the battery operated vehicle and develop and test microprocessor code to control vehicle operation.
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| Engineering & Built Environment | Truth or Lie? The Art of Communicating Engineering Outcomes | Students will explore what are truths and what are lies, using scientific modelling and investigative techniques (HOMER ENERGY, MS Excel spread-sheeting) to determine when convergence of information provides a basis to evaluate technology outcomes and the impact on society’s biosphere sustainability. This is a chance for students to be introduced to scientific investigation and engineering life cycle analysis/consequence/cost/benefit analysis/block chain traceability in a fun way. It also highlights the need for scientific and engineering professionals to have excellent communications skills and to translate complex issues in a way that a target audience can understand.
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| Film | Film Making | Learn the basics of film making with this fun, interactive film camera and sound session where YOU get to shoot a short film.
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| Humanities & Communication - Journalism | Have your 60 minutes - How to be a Superstar Communicator | Get a taste of what it is like to be a cutting-edge journalist. Explore how to report live from an action-packed news scene. Try your hand at being a successful writer. This hands-on workshop will reveal what is in store in the exciting work world of Journalism and Literature in 2020 and beyond.
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| Humanities & Communication - Public Relations | Get the Js to Play & Stay - Bringing Triple J to Town for a One Night Stand | Triple J is looking for a One Night Stand on the Darling Downs - and you are the team to make it happen! For fifteen years the popular concert series has played regional Australian towns but they do play hard to get - Students need to convince them to play here. In teams students will come up with a good reason for the Js to play and stay - and construct a hectic social campaign to seal the deal. *Triple J runs the One Night Stand concert series around Australia in locations determined by local lobbying. In this case the students will outline their plan to lobby Triple J, both by the initial application but also through a social media campaign.
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| Information technology | Crypto Currencies – How to get your hands on some Bitcoin and Artificial Intelligence (AI) - meets Internet of Things (IoT) | Crypto Currencies - How to get your hands on some Bitcoin? Learn what all the buzz is about the Bitcoin digital currency and how it works. Artificial Intelligence - Cool case studies showcasing how AI, which is the technology behind the driverless car, in conjunction with the IoT technology is changing the world by providing fascinating results in many sectors including Health, Engineering, Space and so on. What does a career in AI look like in the future? |
| Law and Justice | Become a Prosecutor for a Day & Make Sentencing Submissions | This presentation will review the possible career pathways for students considering studying law, including a career as a RSPCA prosecutor. This presentation will take students through some of the principles in criminal law sentencing before encouraging students to apply these principles and make sentencing submissions in a real-life case.
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| Marketing | New Approaches to Marketing & Branding | Students will gain an understanding of marketing & branding. Activities will include developing a marketing campaign and delving into the world of mega brands and their success stories.
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| Nursing and Midwifery | Reflecting on being a Nurse in the 21st Century | Join current USQ nursing students as they walk you through their three years of theory, laboratory and clinical practice experience gained throughout the Bachelor of Nursing degree. Experience hands-on simulation in nursing practice, wound care treatment, taking a blood pressure, temperature, respiration and pulse. Learn about the diverse role of the Registered Nurse and all areas of practice and where a nursing career can take you.
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| Psychology and Counselling | Evaluating Three Motivation Theories: Aimee's Case Study | Students will use achievement goal theory, cognitive evaluation theory, and self-efficacy theory to evaluate how best to help Aimee resolve her motivation and emotion problems occurring at big equestrian competitions. Students will apply their motivation knowledge from the QCAA Psychology Syllabus to a real-world case.
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| TV & Radio | Making a TV Show & Radio Broadcasting on Air! | Visiting students will learn the basic operation of a TV Studio, its equipment and crew roles. They will also learn the changing delivery of TV through Subscription, Live Stream, Transmitter and Online Spaces, as well as the role of Outside Broadcasts and Electronic News Gathering (ENG).
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