WATCH: High school students have used drones to map the Tamworth hilltops, lasers to scan the horizon, and GPS to pinpoint the exact position of a tossed gumboot.
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00:00It's a great, I didn't want to be a farmer or a factory worker, I looked at all the other
00:07programs and they were great.
00:10Scholarships are not just surveying scholarships, they might be scholarships that are linked
00:15into country students going away to get a degree and then coming back into regional
00:19and rural areas with your specific skill.
00:22We're one of those professions, surveying is a profession that's not really well
00:32known and we're trying to raise the profile.
00:35We're a STEM based profession, so physics and maths is a key discipline within the profession
00:42and we want to give the kids the knowledge to know that they can leave school, get a
00:47good education and stay in the region.
00:50We set out marks and the builders then work off to build the building.
00:58So you need to go backwards, this number here, 0.9 metres.
01:04The ranges in work are not just local surveying, road design, railway design, you can go into
01:13geodesy, gravity models, plate tectonics, volcanology, as well as housing and normal
01:21civil engineering stuff.