{"id":4956,"date":"2014-07-29T05:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/future-students-get-focus-mining\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:40:42","slug":"future-students-get-focus-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/future-students-get-focus-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Future students get a focus on mining"},"content":{"rendered":"

The industry supported Focus on Mining outreach program <\/a>continued this year with a camp to the South West, providing prospective students greater exposure to mining activities than previous camps. Over five days, high school students toured mine sites and met lecturers, students and industry leaders, gaining hands-on experience. \u201cStudents find out what it\u2019s really like in the industry before they start university,\u201d said Camp Coordinator, Jay Ridgewell.<\/p>\n

The camp travelled from Curtin\u2019s Bentley campus to Pinjarra, Boddington, Greenbushes, Dunsborough, Collie and Huntly. Students visited Newmont, BHP Billiton Worsley, Talison and Alcoa and attended spatial science and geophysics workshops.<\/p>\n

A new Focus on Mining program has also been launched for first year engineering students. Students will visit the Kalgoorlie campus and tour the local mining industry, in the hope that they\u2019ll choose to study here next year.<\/p>\n

More news from Curtin’s WA School of Mines<\/h2>\n
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