  {"id":22335,"date":"2023-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&#038;p=22335"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:54:31","slug":"forging-futures-at-the-engineering-first-year-networking-event","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/forging-futures-at-the-engineering-first-year-networking-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging futures at the Engineering First Year Networking event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this month, Curtin&#8217;s WASM Wallabies welcomed ten esteemed companies on campus as part of their Engineering First Year Networking event, bringing together a diverse blend of students and professionals for meaningful connections and knowledge-sharing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event saw students from various disciplines under the Faculty of Science and Engineering network with representatives from prominent mining and resources companies, with the purpose of raising awareness of how diverse the opportunities are in industry. For students at the crossroads of choosing their engineering specialization, this event proved to be a pivotal opportunity to extract insights, forge connections and make informed decisions about their future career paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-1000x500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-1000x500.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-740x370.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-480x240.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-1260x630.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News2-1520x760.jpeg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With companies such as Northern Star Resources, Rio Tinto, Silverlake Resources and Anglogold Ashanti in attendance, the event naturally also catered to students looking for work or information on vacation and graduate programs. The WASM Wallabies stressed the importance of creating a fun and relaxed event to enable students, who were predominantly first and second-year, to approach and initiate conversation with industry representatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"testimonial-single\">\n    \n            <div class=\"block testimonial\"  data-segment=\"dom\">\n                                        <div class=\"testimonial__content\">\n            <span class=\"ico ico-quotes ico--lime\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\"><path d=\"M8.44 16a5.7 5.7 0 0 0-1.67.2c.59-3.34 3.92-7.36 7.06-9.22L9.12 3.2C3.73 7 0 13.11 0 19.87c0 5.69 3.53 8.93 7.55 8.93a6.67 6.67 0 0 0 6.67-6.67A5.83 5.83 0 0 0 8.44 16zM26.21 16a5.67 5.67 0 0 0-1.66.2c.58-3.34 3.92-7.36 7.06-9.22L26.9 3.2c-5.4 3.8-9.12 9.91-9.12 16.67 0 5.69 3.53 8.93 7.55 8.93A6.67 6.67 0 0 0 32 22.13 5.84 5.84 0 0 0 26.21 16z\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n                            <h4 class=\"testimonial__meta\">Industry nights such as this allow students to meet people further along on a possible path they can take in life, which is a fantastic opportunity for students still looking to identify their own path by learning from shared experiences.\u00a0<\/h4>\n                                        <div class=\"testimonial__testimonial small\"><p>Ben Davidovic, WASM Wallabies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WASMwallabies\/\" target=\"_blank\">WASM Wallabies<\/a> are a student-run organisation based in Curtin Perth that competes at international and national mining games, while also providing students with opportunities to connect with industry. Their Kalgoorlie counterparts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WASMWombatsMiningTeam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WASM Wombats<\/a>, won the men&#8217;s competition at the International Collegiate Mining Competition in Kalgoorlie earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Curtin Perth&#8217;s WASM Wallabies connected students with industry to learn more about their future career paths. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":22341,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"8273,6114,5001,6761,584,5242","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[144,146],"class_list":["post-22335","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-science-engineering","oasis-categories-student-life"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FYE-Networking-OASIS-News-1000x500.jpeg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Nikita","last_name":"Osckar","display_name":"Nikita Osckar"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 14:07:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=22335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}