Georgia Dallimore for Mission: SPACE

Georgia Dallimore’s excitement astir her dream occupation is for illustration opinionated successful a sunbeam. After 1 conversation, you’re abruptly considering chasing your ain passions pinch much fervour … aliases building your ain abstraction robot.

“I don’t deliberation a azygous time goes past wherever I don’t pinch myself and deliberation I cannot judge I americium stepping to activity correct now and I americium going to nan Australian Space Discovery Centre,” says Georgia.

Georgia is an aerospace technologist and abstraction communicator astatine nan Australian Space Agency.

Listening to Georgia confidently speak astir her career, it’s difficult to judge she erstwhile felt uncertain that moving successful abstraction was nan correct way for her.

Caption: Georgia extracurricular nan Australian Space Discovery Centre.
Credit: Australian Space Discovery Centre

A DREAM REKINDLED

“I loved abstraction and subject from beautiful early successful superior school,” says Georgia. 

“But for illustration a batch of people, I thought, oh, there’s conscionable nary measurement I tin study abstraction successful Australia. I’ll person to move overseas. 

“Because of that, I ruled it retired beautiful quickly.”

With nan dexterity to usage scissors hardly mastered, Georgia was already highly logical and dismissed her voyage to nan world cosmos arsenic unfeasible.

“I really enjoyed physics, but it didn’t travel people to me. I wasn’t nan champion astatine it. It was thing I really had to activity difficult for.”

But Georgia’s passion was undeniable. Her teachers softly encouraged her on nan way.

In Year 11, her homeroom coach handed her a mag called Careers pinch STEM.

“On nan beforehand page it said, ‘A Woman’s Place is successful Space’,” says Georgia.

“There was this question and reply pinch a female CEO of a section abstraction institution … I couldn’t judge it.

“This point … that I ne'er thought I could do was now happening successful my hometown. And a female was moving things. 

“From past on, it didn’t consciousness truthful retired of reach.”

IT’S A SIGN

The time nan Australian Space Agency announced its office would beryllium based successful Adelaide, Georgia leapt retired of bed, raced to schoolhouse and told her teachers it was a sign.

It was.

“I started Googling what group successful nan abstraction manufacture had studied,” says Georgia.

“There was this communal thread – each of them did immoderate benignant of engineering.”

Georgia’s thrust to prosecute her dream turned her precocious schoolhouse grades around, and she started studying a mechanical engineering degree.

She was a standout student. Georgia competed successful nan Australian Rover Challenge, designing and racing a lunar rover against teams from crossed nan world.

Caption: Georgia moving connected nan Australian Rover Challenge.
Credit: Crispin Savage/University of Adelaide

In a afloat circle moment, Georgia later returned to creation nan situation for caller students. 

“That was a really, really large portion of my uni experience,” says Georgia. “And now it’s thing I get to thief run.”

THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD

Georgia is some an technologist and abstraction communicator, moving astatine nan Australian Space Discovery Centre to animate different young group to get progressive successful nan abstraction sector. 

“I get students coming successful each nan clip saying I’m not bully astatine subject aliases maths but I emotion space,” says Georgia.

“And I show them, you’ve sewage to spell for it. It’s for illustration riding a motorcycle – you’ve sewage to practice, and past 1 day, nan training wheels travel off.”

Georgia is preparing to commencement her master’s grade successful abstraction systems engineering.

“Every people I’m studying has nan connection space successful it,” she says.

“I’m excited to study much astir immoderate cutting-edge and brand-new things that attraction connected problems we’re trying to lick successful nan abstraction manufacture correct now.”

Caption: Georgia and colleagues.
Credit: Australian Space Discovery Centre

While she’s a master communicator now, Georgia utilized to find presenting challenging.

“In precocious school, I couldn’t make a position without my full reside written retired connected cue cards,” says Georgia.

She built her assurance by debating and sees connection arsenic a powerful instrumentality for change. 

“When I saw that female CEO successful that magazine, that visibility shattered a batch of impressions I had,” says Georgia. “It showed maine location were group for illustration maine successful nan industry.”

In different afloat circle moment, Georgia is now that female for different girls.

“To beryllium capable to springiness backmost to nan aforesaid organization that helped maine … to spot girls coming done engineering aliases visiting nan Discovery Centre and seeing women moving location – that is nan champion emotion successful nan world.”

Georgia is progressive successful nan Mission: SPACE programme delivered by Scitech and powered by nan Australian Space Agency. You tin registry for this nationwide virtual excursion here.