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Welcome to INSPIRE

INSPIRE is a new initiative supported by the QLD government, linking up-and-coming scientists from QUT with high school students in the rural communities in Queensland of Kingaroy, Normanton and Mt Isa during National Science Week, 12-20 August 2017.

Our INSPIREducators: Back row, left-right: Raymond Ho (Normanton, with Victoria Wall, not pictured), Bailey Millard (Mt Isa), Honor Hugo (INSPIRE program director), front row: Laura Cafferky and James Monkman (Kingaroy), Sanjeewa Kularatna (Mt Isa). 

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Queensland University of Technology

The INSPIRE program is headed to Mt Isa, Normanton and Kingaroy in 2017!

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Click on the coloured boxes to visit each of the school webpages...

Normanton facts:

Location

  • 2,088 km (1,297 mi) NW of Brisbane

  • 689 km (428 mi) W of Cairns

  • 227 km (141 mi) E of Burketown

  • 157 km (98 mi) W of Croydon

  • Normanton is a small cattle town and locality in the Shire of Carpentaria in Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Normanton had a population of 1,468 people of whom 696 were Indigenous Australians.

  • The town is one terminus of the isolated Normanton to Croydon railway line, which was built during gold rush days in the 1890s. The Gulflander motor train operates once a week.

Kingaroy facts:
  • Population 9,586 (2011 census)

  • Elevation 441.9 m (1,450 ft)

  • Location

  • 227 km (141 mi) from Brisbane

  • 152 km (94 mi) from Toowoomba

  • 144 km (89 mi) from Gympie

  • known as the "Peanut Capital of Australia" because Australia's largest peanut processing plant is located in the town and peanut silos dominate the skyline.

  • Kingaroy is also well known as the home town of former Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Mt Isa facts:
  • Population 21,998 (2016)

  •  Density 350.29/km2 (907.2/sq mi)

  • Established 1923

  • Elevation 356 m (1,168 ft)

  • Area 62.8 km2 (24.2 sq mi)[2] (2011 urban)

  • Location

  • 1,830 km (1,137 mi) NW of Brisbane

  • 904 km (562 mi) W of Townsville

  • Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. It came into existence because of the vast mineral deposits found in the area. Mount Isa Mines (MIM) is one of the most productive single mines in world history, based on combined production of lead, silver, copper and zinc.

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