How do you turn your STEM studies into a living wage? Or even better - how do you turn your golden STEM idea into actual gold? You might just find out in this episode of Secret Life of STEM.

We talk to select entrepreneurs from the Melbourne Accelerator Program, a start up fund that helps grow Australian businesses. These people combined their knowledge of STEM and business, and are now using it to improve the world with the companies Beyond Ag and Curvecrete. You’ll also hear from a teacher that turned her STEM skills into an automated roll-marking system. Neat!

Also in this episode, our reverse engineer Danielle Goulopolous discovers what Google knows about you - and how to reduce that secret knowledge.

GUESTS:● Phoebe Gardner, Co-Founder - Beyond Ag● Alex Arnold, Co-Founder - Beyond Ag● Greg Nyilasy, Academic, Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne● Warren Rudd, Co-Founder - Curvecrete● Daniel Prohasky, Co-Founder - Curvecrete● Danielle Goulopolous, Media and Communications Student● Martin Elhay, Senior Business Development Manager, University of Melbourne● Zoe Milne, Co-founder - Loop Learn

LINKS:● The Melbourne Accelerator Program - https://www.themap.co/● Beyond Ag - https://www.themap.co/portfolio/beyond-ag● The Wade Institute of Entrepeneurship - https://www.ormond.unimelb.edu.au/about/wade-institute-entrepreneurship/● Curvecrete - https://curvecrete.com/● What does Google know about you? - https://medium.com/productivity-in-the-cloud/6-links-that-will-show-you-what-google-knows-about-you-f39b8af9decc● The Lean Startup - http://theleanstartup.com/● Study Business and Economics at UniMelb - https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/interests/business-and-economics/● Loop Learn Automated Roll-Marking - https://www.looplearn.net/● Walter and Eliza Hall Institute - https://www.wehi.edu.au/● Find a course - https://study.unimelb.edu.au

CREDITS:Guest Host: Erin GrantEpisode Host/Producer/Editor: Buffy GorrillaSupervising Producer/Science Advisor: Dr. Andi HorvathAssistant Producer: Silvi Vann-WallAdditional Editing: Arch Cuthbertson

CONTACT:podcasting-team@unimelb.edu.au