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Annual Review
The annual review summarises Questacon's activities over the previous financial year.
Annual Review 2020
Creativity in a Crisis
In our increasingly globalised and digital world, skills and knowledge in STEM are crucial for supporting innovation and economic growth, and for our health and wellbeing. The events of 2020 emphasised the importance of STEM-skilled young people to build our future workforce. Questacon plays a key role in inspiring the next generation in STEM, fuelling imagination and curiosity in young people and helping improve STEM teacher skills and confidence.
The Hon Karen Andrews MP, former Minister for Industry, Science, and Technology.
Download the 2020 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2020 - PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2020 - Word
Annual Review 2019
Our Robotic Future
STEM makes a significant contribution to our economy, and is key to our future as a prosperous nation. Many jobs in the years ahead will require these skills, which is why it is so important to encourage an interest in STEM subjects from an early age, and to enable those who influence our young people to inspire and support this interest.
The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology.
Download the 2019 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2019 - PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2019 - Word
Annual Review 2018
Creativity, Imagination and Enterprise at and beyond the frontiers
Hundreds pass through Questacon’s doors every day, travelling, just like me, to that astonishing place that science might one day help us to reach. And there they encounter our A-team of Future Envoys: the passionate, articulate and endlessly creative Questacon staff. For me, as for so many Australians, they are really the staff of our Embassy of the Future in Canberra.
Dr Alan Finkel AO , Australian's Chief Scientist.
Download the 2018 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2018 - PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2018 - Word
Annual Review 2017
Creativity, Imagination and Enterprise
Questacon plays a key role instilling a passion for science and technology from an early age. By ensuring a strong education and lifelong interest in STEM, we are preparing our young people for the future. It deepens their understanding of the world around them, equipping them to tackle the challenges, excel in the workforce, innovate and create opportunities in their rapidly changing world.
Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash - Minister for Jobs and Innovation
Download the 2017 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2017 - PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2017 - Word
Annual Review 2016
Focused on Australia's Future
Questacon is inspiring and building the creativity, knowledge and skills needed to build an innovative nation into the next century.
Leon Kempler, OAM - Questacon Advisory Council Chairman
Download the 2016 Annual Review in the following format.
Questacon Annual Review 2016 PDF
Annual Review 2015
Hands-on Brains On
Australia cannot be just a quarry and service industries. It needs to be engaged in the excitement of science and innovation and have high skilled technology industries. Questacon encourages young minds to engage in problem solving and to enter the exciting world of science.
Mr Charles Goode, AC, Chairman—Flagstaff Partners, Chairman—The Ian Potter Foundation
Download the 2015 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2015 PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2015 Word
Annual Review 2013-14
Moving from Inspiration to Impact
For both youth and adults, visiting a science centre significantly correlated with increased science and technology knowledge and understanding.
International Science Centre Impact Study, 2014
Download the 2013-14 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2013-14 PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2013-14 Word
Annual Review 2012-13
Inspiring Australia
Science needs our support, in order to support us. We need more people to be generating ideas that can be fed into a society ready to accept and analyse them. As the world becomes ever more complex, the community will be increasingly asked to decide between options. Our community will be better, our democracy more robust, our future more secure, if our citizens are able to make better informed decisions.
Professor Ian Chubb AC, Australia’s Chief Scientist
Download the 2012-13 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2012-13 PDF
Questacon Annual Review 2012-13 Word
Annual Review 2011-12
Unlocking Australia's Potential
Science underpins the future prosperity of our nation. We need to teach our children to think through problems, combining facts with critical thought to understand the world. With these skills, our children will be set to not only become Australia’s future leaders in science, but take leadership in any walk of life.
Professor Brian Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics
Download the 2011-12 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2011-12 PDF 16.3 MB
Questacon Annual Review 2011-12 Word 62.3 MB
Annual Review 2010-11
Working to Inspire Australia
So much of Australia’s future depends on inspiring young people across the country to respond to innovation and science and to think of careers in science and technology.
Marius Kloppers, CEO BHP Billiton
Download the 2010-11 Annual Review in the following two formats.
Questacon Annual Review 2010-11 PDF 4.1 MB
Questacon Annual Review 2010-11 Word 17.7 MB
Previous editions are available on request.
