UNSW Canberra School of Engineering & IT

Information for students

Registration for YoWIE 2024 is not yet open. Please check back here in November 2023.

Participants of the 2020 Summer YoWie program held at UNSW Canberra. The YoWIE program was created to directly disrupt the imbalance in the gender make up of Australian engineers. It has been designed specifically for young women and aims to show them engineering is for them through a number of fun, hands-on activities.
  • Free event

    Open to all young women in Years 9 - 12 in 2024

  • Where

    UNSW Canberra, in Campbell ACT

  • When

    April School Holidays 2024

  • Applications open

    November 2023

Calling all young women for three days of fun!

Will you be in Years 9 - 12 in 2024? Then come and experience what it’s like to be an engineer with exciting, hands on activities in real university labs at UNSW Canberra.

Experience three days of awesome activities with the opportunity to meet other like-minded young women, inspirational female guest speakers, university students and engineering staff.

Discover aerospace, aeronautical, civil, electrical, mechanical and software engineering with spectacular activities like:

  • building a gas turbine engine and exploring flight
  • pulling apart a lawnmower engine and reassembling
  • soldering and programming electrical circuits
  • programming a robot to solve missions
  • designing, building and testing a dam
  • building your own YoWIE keepsake in our mechanical engineering workshop
  • analysing a signal to return an astronaut to her rocket.

YoWIE is all about you! Our amazing workshops are designed to give you a flavour of university level engineering whilst having fun. Who knew studying maths and science in school could be this fun?

For more information, download the 2024 YoWIE flyer for students.


Questions about the program?
Email YoWIE