Katherine Bennell-Pegg wants students to know no career is out of this world and working in STEM will mean you are at the forefront of solving some of the 'world's grandest challenges'.
Students visit the observatory to learn more about the wonders of space.Students from Mullewa District High School visit CSIRO 's Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia.
The iconic 10-second countdown to lift-off, eating food from a tube, or floating effortlessly to move around. Located in the rugged outback, telescopes and antennas are scattered along the red dirt and in between native bushland on Boolardy Station, about 700 kilometres north-east of PerthThe traditional name gifted to the observatory from the Wajarri Yamaji means sharing the sky and stars in Wajarri language.
When thinking about what it would be like to go to space, he said it would be "scary" but knew astronauts were good at being "calm".ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt: Piper DuffyMs Bennell-Pegg wanted to make sure that the students' main takeaway from the day was that no career was out of this world.
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