TWENTY Xstrata engineers and senior mine workers gathered at the Saint Joseph's Training Centre on Friday to hear presentations from aspiring students.
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A group of Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy high school students from across the state spent last week learning either trade or professional skills in the mining industry, which they presented findings on at the event.
Student Riana Newton from Ipswich said the groups were given specific engineering tasks to complete in a real-world environment in order to problem solve.
"It was actually a lot harder than I expected," she said.
"I thought maybe we'd work with engineers to come up with a solution but it was just us doing it on our own, so I was a bit shocked but we worked through what the issue and solutions were in our teams."
Student Boyd Collette from Gladstone said after the program he was sure he wanted to pursue a future in minerals and energy.
"It was really good to meet other students who want to study engineering and engineers themselves," he said.
"I think having that interaction really helped and now we've been out here and seen it all we know what it's all about."
Project officer Robyn Flexman said the students presented their tasks, processes and conclusions to the group of Xstrata employees before the students returned to their respective cities on Saturday.