Funding to foster creative and inquiry-based learning in young people

Grants of $20,000 to $100,000 to support maker projects that foster creativity and inquiry-based learning and develop STEM skills in students and youth under 18 through hands-on learning in design, engineering and programming.

The opportunity has a particular focus on improving accessibility and participation for under-represented groups of young people.

Organisations that deliver maker projects to students and youth under 18 years.

Participants must be students and youth under 18 years of age at the time of application.

There is a particular focus on projects that engage under-represented groups including young women and girls, First Nations peoples, youth living in regional, rural and remote locations, youth with a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, people with disability and people from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.