The Royal Flying Doctor Service has opened its Rockhampton hangar to school girls learning to become drone pilots for the day.
Queensland Head of Clinical Governance, Trent Dean, says he hopes the new partnership between STEM specialists, She Maps, and RFDS will encourage more girls to pursue a future in aviation.
She Maps education director Dr Karen Joyce says though the RFDS is a diverse and innovative company, there is more work to be done in the STEM workforce as currently, “[only] 6 per cent of aviation pilots in Australia are female and about 1 per cent of drone pilots are female.”
Dr Joyce, also says the aim of the partnership was to diversify the science workforce by showing girls that there was more to science than men in lab coats.