Save the Date! Friday 20th November 2026
Delegate Registrations Opening Term 3 2026.
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See below for Call for Sessions and Exhibitor/Sponsor information.
Call for Sessions Now Open!
Are you using creative, innovative or inspiring STEM teaching strategies or pedagogies in your lessons? If so, we want to hear from you! We invite you to submit a 60 minute workshop for the 2026 Quantum Victoria STEM Conference.
This year’s theme is Engage, Explore, Excel: STEM Learning that Matters
High-impact STEM Teaching & Learning: Designing meaningful, inclusive STEM learning aligned to curriculum and real-world contexts.
Data, Evidence & Digital Insight: Using data and digital tools to inform teaching, track impact, and deepen STEM learning.
STEM in Action: From code to creation: engaging students through hands-on STEM applications
Problem Solving, Creativity & Critical Thinking: Developing the transferable skills students need to thrive in a changing world.
FREE registration for the Presenter and one Co-Presenter (additional cost of $85 for each further Presenter).
Workshops will be presented to the Quantum Victoria Conference Committee for consideration. An email will be sent to you in term 3 regarding the outcome of your submission.
Call for Sessions close: Friday 31st July (unless spots filled prior)
For further information please contact Quantum Victoria:
admin@quantumvictoria.vic.edu.au
Sponsors & Exhibitors
We are delighted to extend an invitation for you to sponsor and/or exhibit at Quantum Victoria's STEM Conference. This esteemed conference is specifically designed for primary and secondary teachers of STEM, lab technicians, and pre-service teachers, and it presents a unique opportunity to engage with and promote resources that foster the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in schools.
Please see the Prospectus for costs (inc GST) and inclusions.
Keynote
Dr Ben Swift
Senior Lecturer, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
LLMs Unplugged: A tech-free guide to understanding (and teaching) AI
Dr. Ben Swift is an academic, educator, artist and maker of open source tools for creative computing and generative AI. He’s a Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Cybernetics, where he leads the Cybernetic Studio: a cybernetic community that makes things out of hardware/software/people/stuff to explore cybernetic systems/ideas and their impact on the world.
His hands-on keynote workshop will show you how large language models work - no computers or coding required. You'll build your own language model with pen, paper and dice. You'll go from counting word patterns in a short text to generating new sentences with a few rolls of a dice - no screens, no coding, no maths beyond counting and percentages. You'll walk away with a concrete understanding of how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest actually work under the hood: the probabilistic nature of LLMs, the importance of training data, and how bias and design decisions show up in the output.
Key Dates
Keep an eye out for further details!