Academy of Technological Sciences Engineering (ATSE), a prominent institution in Australian, invited Dr. Indarjani, the Deputy Director for Programme of SEAQIS, to visit Australia from 23 to 26 March 2015. ATSE through STELR programme has conducted two training workshops that apply STEM Education model and inquiry-based science concepts. The previous workshops’ themes were Global Warming and Renewable Energy that involved interdisciplinary subjects beside science. For the fiscal year 2015, SEAQIS will extend the training into a five-day Regional Training Workshop. It will be attended by teachers or teacher trainers from SEAMEO member countries and the material will be delivered by ATSE experts. During her visit that was facilitated generously by ATSE, she had the opportunity to visit Victoria Space Science Education Center (VSSEC) located in Melbourne, a specialist science centre that delivers programmes and activities which engage students by using space as a context for learning. The itinerary also included a visit to Stile Education, another ATSE initiative, to learn about the web-based delivery STELR curriculum package and online in-service teacher training and professional development. In order to make the programme effective, she also made a visit to the Primary Connection as part of Australian Science Academy initiative where she participated in its Australia-Asia Primary Connection workshop on 2013 and warmly received by the Director, Shelley Piers. The official visit was concluded by attending a committee meeting on the Inspiring Science and Mathematics Education (iSME) Curriculum Development in Sydney on 25 March 2015, as the main agenda. This opportunity has given an insight into the process of how STELR develops and produces science curriculum packages that has been used widely by Australian Secondary Schools. The outcome of this programme will be used to produce science and mathematics curriculum packages both in English and Indonesia and science communication between Australian students and SEAMEO member students by utilizing the web-based science delivery model.
