Hello, my name is Nana, I'm from China. I'm currently studying medicine at the University of Queensland.
My journey to becoming a doctor begin here at QACI.
QACI is Queensland Academies Creative Industries campus, a really unique secondary state high school.
[All] Welcome to QACI!
Seven stories of richness around creativity and innovation.
Our curriculum is the International Baccalaureate world curriculum
we study the five subjects within the group six of the International Baccalaureate
Dance, Music, Film, Theatre and Visual Arts.
Creativity is so important for our future young people, it sits in every occupation, every profession,
QACI provides our young people the opportunity to think outside the box
I started at QACI from year 10. When I first came here I saw all the different facilities I'd never seen before.
Everything's so cool I was like lost at the first time I seen everything else
Wow, am I going to study here in this amazing place!?
I never did art before, so I was like 'can I actually fit in with all these art kids?'
and it turns out that they don't only do art.
Queensland Academies Creative Industries campus -
many people out in our community hear that name and think it's all about the arts, but it's so much more.
Creativity sits in every subject that a student learns.
Creativity sits in science, the problem solving, the creative thinking that has to be involved in all of those curriculum areas.
Apart from arts, QACI also promotes a strong science-based education
as what I'm going for, Science Pathways and STEMS, they're amazing at it
so learning to have this creativity mindset really helped me with my medicine pathway
Our community often thinks that our students are moving straight into the Creative Industries fields once they leave QACI.
Our highest number of our students move into Law. It sits at about 24 percent of our students moving into law,
about 22 percent of our students move into medicine.
We sit right on the doorstep of QUT
so we have some really enriching opportunities for our students to be able to engage in
University each and every day through the BioMed lab that sits straight across the road.
And the fact that we are so close to their Innovation Lab we got a chance to actually go and visit.
I think that really built us into a more scientific and more professional person
than just a high school student.
I know just talking to the professors within our university partnership they love working with our students
because our students look at things differently, they challenge what is there.
Our curriculum is the International Baccalaureate world curriculum
we study the Diploma Programme, so international students can
come here and study at QACI and then use their diploma score to get automatic entry in many
many of the countries around the world - straight into their University pathway.
I'm so glad that I made that decision here at QACI, because of everything,
because IB, because of all the friends I met, because of all the teachers.
For me, QACI gave me more than an IB Diploma, a degree, everything just made me who I am now.
"What have you been up to?" "I'm studying medicine now at UQ". "Amazing!"
And I think with all these characteristics you will literally go into a way of success which for me I feel like I'm
heading myself to the pathway of a successful life, I would say!
"That's a wrap everyone" [Applause]