Year 9
Career Immersions and Experiences: Help your students gain invaluable insights into the world of work through immersive career experiences. Connect with resources that offer hands-on opportunities, industry exposure, and real-world skills. This is the perfect time to guide your students as they explore different career paths and build a deeper understanding of their interests and potential futures.
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Wathaurong Aborginal Co-operative
Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative is the largest employer of aboriginal people in the Geelong region. It supports Aboriginal people in many ways
Careers STEAM
Self delivery
Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC)
VSSEC offers over 30 hands-on programs for Years 1-12, covering topics from electricity to astrophysics and deductive thinking to quantum computing. Programs include languages (Italian, Japanese, Greek) and math based on The Martian. VCE teachers benefit from expertise in Physics, Chemistry, and advanced instruments.
Careers
In person
The Gordon-Taste of TAFE
The Gordon’s Taste of TAFE day is a brilliant two-day program that will give Year 9 and 10 students an insight into the incredible careers that TAFE can deliver.
IMMERSION PROGRAM Careers
In person
The Geelong Tertiary Futures Program
Participate in Career previews from a selection of 26 pathways-GTFP is an exciting initiative that engages Year 9 students in education by providing an in-depth preview of a broad range of tertiary studies. The program is delivered by The Gordon TAFE in partnership with Geelong secondary schools.
STEAM Careers
In person
The Geelong Tech School Year 9 & 10 Opportunities
The Geelong Tech School is a cutting-edge technology hub offering 21st-century skills through innovative, real-world projects. Programs emphasize design thinking and collaboration between schools, local industry, and the community. Participants use the latest technologies, including virtual reality, electronics, robotics, and a fully equipped fabrication lab with 3D printers and a laser cutter.
Careers IMMERSION PROGRAM
In person
Skilling the Bay World of Work Programs
Facilitates the delivery of targeted place-based initiatives that bring schools, tertiary education providers, community organisation, and industry in the Geelong and Barwon region together to prepare young people for the new world of work and provide them with an understanding of possible career pathways and work opportunities.
IMMERSION PROGRAM Careers
In person
Seed2STEM
This program aims to break barriers and create pathways for women in STEM, focusing on regional Victoria. By engaging school career advisors and VET/TAFE coordinators, the program promotes STEM careers for women through partnerships, highlighting VET-based opportunities.Digital content, industry reports, and action points with the regional community are also shared.
Work Experience Careers
In person
Safe@Work
Safe@work provides health and safety information for secondary school students who are starting work experience.
Careers STEAM
Virtual
Quantum Victoria
Quantum Victoria excites and inspires students with innovative STEM programs. The state-of-the-art center, equipped with cutting-edge technology and expert access, offers onsite, online, and outreach programs. Focus areas include game technology, virtual reality, programming, 3D printing, robotics, and physical sciences, sparking interest in future careers.
Careers
Virtual
My Future
My future provides resources to explore career pathways and tools to develop self-knowledge to help with career decision-making.
Careers
Virtual
My Career Insights
My Career Insights is a program for all Year 9 students (or equivalent in specialist settings) in Victorian Government secondary schools. The Department of Education and Training (DE) has engaged the Career Education Association of Victoria (CEAV) to deliver My Career Insights. The program is part of a suite of career education reforms implemented by the […]
Careers
In person
Learn Locals
Learn Local courses can help you get the skills you need for study, work, and life with thousands of short courses across Victoria.
Careers STEAM
In person
Geelong Tech School
The Geelong Tech School is a state of the art ‘technology hub’ that facilitates programs and working relationships that enable skills needed for the 21st Century. In a fully supported environment participants are inspired to design and create using the latest technologies including, virtual reality, electronics, robotics and a fully equipped fabrication lab housing 3D […]
STEAM Careers
Self delivery
Geelong Regional Libraries
Events for youth. If you are aged 12+, there are special programs of library events and activities, focusing on socialising, gaming, your art, learning and tech. There are also regular after-school programs.
Careers IMMERSION PROGRAM
In person
Geelong Region Local Learning and Employment Network Industry Immersions
Working with local industry partners the Geelong LLEN assists with work experience and Structured Work Place placements
Careers
Virtual
Geelong Region Local Learning and Employment Network Industry Immersions
Geelong Careers and Experience for work offer students the opportunity to explore job vacancies in the region
Careers
Virtual
Geelong Region Local Learning and Employment Network
The Geelong Region LLEN delivers School to Work programs to secondary students attending government and non-government schools in Greater Geelong, Golden Plains and Surf Coast areas. As a School to Work provider they engage industries and schools to build connections that increase work-based learning opportunities that meet the needs of local students and local industry.
IMMERSION PROGRAM Careers
In person
Geelong Future Leaders of Industry and Girls Leading Advanced Manufacturing (GFLOI & GLAM)
GLFLOI & GLAM are immersion programs that introduce students to advanced manufacturing, focusing on technology, design, engineering, and innovation. These programs highlight advanced manufacturing as a vital career path in Geelong, where the sector employs over 8,000 people across 400 companies, including Ford Australia and Carbon Revolution.
Careers STEAM
In person
Ecolinc science and technology innovations Centre
Ecolinc provides sustainable environmental programs for students of all ages using the resources of the Bacchus Marsh area and the technology within the Centre. Ecolinc delivers onsite, online, outreach, fieldwork, and professional development programs. The programs cater for Prep–Year 12 students, aligned to the Victorian Curriculum and VCE Study Designs in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science […]
Work Experience
Virtual
Department of Education Work Experience
This policy sets out the requirements for schools in planning for and implementing work experience placements for secondary school students.
Careers
Virtual
Department of Education Industry Immersion
The Career Education Association of Victoria (CEAV) has developed a series of online resources to help students discover more about Victoria’s priority growth industries and give them the opportunity to reflect on their skills, interests and undertake career planning and exploration.
Careers
In person
Deakin Engagement and Access Program (DEAP)
The Deakin Engagement and Access Program (DEAP) school outreach program inspires, instils self-confidence and creates equal opportunities for all secondary school students.
STEAM Careers
Virtual
CSIRO
CSIRO offers a range of programs designed to bring real science to life in classrooms and communities. All their resources are curriculum aligned and use best practice STEM teaching methods, catering for primary to secondary schooling, and on to tertiary education and early career opportunities.
Wellbeing Careers
City of Greater Geelong
City of Greater Geelong offer a range of Youth Health and Wellbeing programs to be delivered in school and educational spaces that enhance students’ knowledge and experiences of health, wellbeing and inclusion.
Careers
Virtual
Careers For Net Zero
Careers for Net Zero will help you find the right professional development pathways,education and upskilling opportunities that will help you find employment in Australia’s clean economy.
Careers
In person
Biolab
The Victorian Bioscience Education Centre provides specialist educational programs to students and teachers in Victoria. It is one of six specialist science and mathematics centres in Victoria and is a state-wide resource for any school in Victoria who can book into the programs and use the facilities.
Wellbeing Careers
In person
BATForce
Barwon Adolescent Taskforce (BATForce) works to improve the opportunities for young people by working with and providing support to the eco-systems that young people exist within.