Previous Fellows

The Fellowship supports a registered Queensland school teacher to visit the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

Current and previous Fellow
Year Recipient's name and grant amount Home organisation Project title and outcomes
2024 Mr Timothy Bateup

$26,200

Roma State College/Queensland Virtual STEM Academy Innovative eLearning: Elevating Design & Technologies in a Virtual Classroom

This project aims to develop and implement best practices for delivering the Design & Technologies curriculum to middle school students (Grades 5-9) in a virtual environment. This project will involve research into the most effective strategies for engaging students in design thinking, problem-solving, and practical applications through online platforms. The fellowship at the Cooper Hewitt Museum would provide an opportunity to study innovative design education methods and apply them to a virtual context.

2024 Ms Zoe Keidge

$26,200

Southport State High School Preferred Futures: Social Sustainability and Inclusion in Design

This project aims to enhance the delivery of design curriculum in state schools by focussing on preferred futures, primarily that of sustainability. This project will improve teacher capacity to deliver comprehensive design education and help educators integrate inclusive and socially sustainable practices into their own teaching and learning cycles.

2023 Stephen Anderson

$20,000

Nanango State High SchoolEquipping teachers “ITD Teachers pathway program” design content-teaching skills.

Implement knowledge gained in the design education program and collaborate with like-minded professionals to assist in the development of a program that aids the delivery of knowledge and understanding to upcoming educators in design thinking and principles. Produce programs of instruction to assist in the incorporation of design-based subjects to education facilities that lack support for design implementation.

2020 Program on hold due to COVID-19   
2019 Ms Jasmine Kassulke

$20,000

Marsden State High School Designing for change - future ready Marsden Mako's

Changed teaching programs to better deliver design education across a variety of curriculum areas. Aligning curriculum with design ideas. The outcome is to broaden student's understanding of design, design process and human needs. It also develops their skills of observation and analysis.

2018 Mr Herman Rijken

$15,000

Cooktown State School Designing in remote Queensland

Designed a workshop for the Far North Queensland regions tailored for young people and teachers. Advocated for teachers on designing the syllabus. Rewrote two units using design thinking.

2017 Mrs Chantelle Sansness

$20,000

Oakleigh State School Enabling students to meet global challenges through design education

Aided in the implementation of a whole of school design centred strategy and is currently seconded to the QCAA where she is helping instil design thinking into the state technologies curriculum.

2016 Ms Dana Holden

$20,000

Kedron State High School Equipping teachers for the 21st century – students, careers and the unknown

Design thinking helped refine teaching drama classes. Teaching design thinking to colleagues. Used design thinking to create the State Conference for Drama Queensland.

2015 Mrs Dawn Boland

$18,000

John Paul College To empower and align through design

Brought back new skills and became a different teacher. Part of an Innovation team at the school. Introduced a Design & Entrepreneurship course.

2015 Mr Silas Middleton

$17,000

Beenleigh State High School Junior secondary by design

Brought back learnings to the school to various age groups. Looked at ways to encourage further design thinking at the school. Looking to create a design thinking model to map processes which can be used by others.

2014 Mr Terence Deen

$19,000

Kelvin Grove State College 21st century education: Interdisciplinary creative intelligence

Presented to colleagues at school and contributed to DesignMinds online design education. Hosted a professional development workshop at APDL and is now Head of Learning at QAGOMA.

2012 Mr Adam Jefford

$16,000

Windaroo Valley State High School n/a
2011 Mr Alwyn Powell

$17,000

Darling Heights State School n/a
2010 Mr Kevin Collins

$18,000

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Barcaldine n/a
2009 Mr Leslie Hooper

$19,000

Kelvin Grove State College n/a