The 2023 Future You Summit is fast approaching this September and we are seeking alumni role models to support future leaders at this event.
You can help inspire 250 Year 11 and 12 students from 121 schools across Qld and northern NSW (70% female cohort and 60% from year 11).
There will be two sessions for alumni (and QUT staff) to engage with the 250 students at our Garden's Point campus:
1. Visualise your future, alumni stories and speed networking (Wed 27 Sept, 4pm – 5pm) Students will speed network with academics, industry, and alumni. Students will be motivated to speak to you with a fun QUT Bingo card – matching you to the questions on the card (i.e. find someone related to a discipline, or find a Head of School). Sign up as a mentor
2. Entrepreneurship pitch-off (Thurs 28 Sept, 3pm – 4pm) The final day of the Summit program is designed to generate a conversation on the connection between their discipline-based experiences they participated earlier in the week, entrepreneurship, and creativity. As an “investor” you will get to hear students put their ideas to the test with an elevator pitch to crowdfund their start up. Parents will also be invited to be investors! Sign up as a mentor (investor)
About Future You Summit 2023
This year the QUT Future You Summit will focus on the theme of Future Frontiers to inspire students about what their future could be, and how QUT can help them get there. Outside of these sessions above, students will have particiated in a number of exciting experiences throughout the week across all disciplines. Here's a taster of what they will have been up to, depending on their area of interest:
- To smell or not to smell, that is the ester: Chemistry
- Being an effective mobile storyteller: Communications
- Real action for real change: Health and Social Justice
- Contemporary law and justice: Law and Justice
- Cancer: When good cells go bad: Clinical Health (Pathology)
- Design a future mobility solution: Industrial design (BMW Group + Design Academy)
- A new Era of Astrophysics with the James Webb Space Telescope: Astrophysics
- Computational Explorations: Applied and Computational Mathematics
Any questions, email highschool.engage@qut.edu.au
