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With 12 family members and a busy schedule between school and home, setting budgets and financial goals were a whole new world for Yasmine when she attended a financial capability workshop as part of the...

A challenging experience in Year 10 speaking to a crowd containing a hostile peer but supportive mentors taught former Keysborough College student Kristy Chung a crucial life lesson. Now 18, the health sciences student at...

ABCN Foundation scholarship winner Jweel arrived in Australia from Syria five years ago with her family and none could speak English. In her successful application for a three-year Accelerate scholarship, the Fairfield High School student said...

ABCN welcomed 35 of the 42 Year 11 Accelerate Scholars and their mentors from all over Australia face-to-face in Sydney in late April. Our thanks to the scholars and their mentors, schools, parents, ABCN member...

‘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...