"This is an outstanding achievement and firmly establishes UOW as one of the leading universities on the global university scene."

A team of students from UOW and TAFE Illawarra will go head to head with some of the best universities in the world when they compete in the finals of the Solar Decathlon: China in 2013.

The program provides high school students from the Illawarra and South Coast an opportunity they would not otherwise find at school

“Girls study maths and science at high school but many aren’t sure what engineering actually is.”