Virtual reality bus ready to visit rural and remote QLD
Three National Disability Coordination Officers are hitting the road for a 3405km road trip to inspire minds and help people see career and study possibilities in rural and remote Queensland. The vehicle of choice is a specially-fitted virtual reality bus, which will allow 448 participants to virtually explore different career paths including mining, agriculture, health, […]
Technology breaking down barriers for students with a disability
You look to your left and see modern lecture theatres and classrooms, you turn to your right and find students socialising and studying together – a life you could soon be a part of. For some high school students with a disability this will soon be a virtual reality thanks to an initiative from the […]
STEPS student success: Gao gains new job, new skills and new friends
One of our much loved students 20 year old Gao Vang is a Hmong lady from Laos. After losing her father during the Secret War, she and her younger sister were adopted by an aunt and brought to Australia as refugees. Gao came to STEPS to improve her language, literacy and numeracy skills and has […]
Window on the Wetlands visit supports student learning at STEPS
Earlier this year our Casuarina and Palmerston literacy and numeracy students enjoyed an excursion to Window on the Wetlands at Beatrice Hill (or Ludawei) followed by a picnic lunch at nearby Fogg Dam. Our Casuarina trainer Ranald Anderson put together worksheets and questions for the students to complete during the excursion and even purchased a […]
This little piggy went to our house!
In outback Australia you can expect to meet all sorts of wildlife – emus, dingos, camels, spiders and snakes of all sorts, but look who popped in while we visited our trainer’s accommodation in historic Hermannsburg (Ntaria) NT! ‘Miss Piggy’ comes right to the door of our trainer Philip’s accommodation grunting something we think means […]
Facing off with frogs, fences and friendliness in remote Australia
Marianne Slade had no idea what she was in for when she left the comforts of her Gold Coast home in 2014 for sweltering Derby in far north west WA to work for STEPS as a literacy and numeracy trainer. “It was so hot and humid when my husband and I arrived there in March […]
