Author: ABCN Team

‘Meeting with intelligent, successful people showed me I had options.’ Kim Quinones, 24, still vividly remembers the Aspirations program she participated in at Lalor Secondary College, Victoria, almost a decade ago.    ‘We learnt so...

Thanks to a collaboration with Lendlease which funded ABCN’s Regional, Rural and Remote program, Australia’s cotton capital Wee Waa is now home to one of ABCN’s first regional partner schools.  Wee Waa High School has...

ABCN’s New South Wales team kickstarted 2022 with the return of a series of Full STEAM Ahead programs after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.    Full STEAM Ahead engages Years 7-8 students with Science, Technology, Engineering,...

‘My name is Lisa, and I was a mentee in the ABCN GOALS program in 2014. I would like to reconnect with my mentor to thank her again for all her valuable advice back in...

ABCN Foundation scholarship winner Billy is a proud Wonnarua Nation young man from the Hunter Valley in NSW. In his successful application for a three-year Accelerate scholarship, the Aboriginal student, now Brisbane-based, talked bravely about the discrimination he has faced all his life, citing the...

Confidence in talking about the sensitive subject of money is a key objective of a new financial capability module that ABCN is starting to integrate in its innovative mentoring programs.  It was in the middle...