Don't be afraid to apply. They consider many factors, including your interests, personality, grades and more. You don't have to be a straight seven student to apply.

Students should include in their application, experiences around leadership, teamwork, problem solving and innovation. Because these are highly valued at Energy Queensland.

All the innovative technology this company has been involved in, for example, the revolutionary battery technology, renewable integration, and the modern smart grid technology, all of that had me really excited, and that drove me to apply for the scholarship.

Because I have a passion for digital data solutions, and the energy industry, and Energy Queensland need people with those skills.

I believe the power industry has a great future ahead. With ever changing and emerging technologies, there's always room for growth. Since the scholarship provides opportunities into the graduate program, I wanted to take part in this and help shape that future.

The biggest attraction of the work experience has been the buddy program. Effectively, I was assigned with a fellow graduate, who helped me smooth out my transition within the company, and eventually we became good friends, and we would go out for coffee, and we would run into each other often and have long chats. So that was fantastic.

You really get to know professional engineers and really learn from their experiences, and use those experiences to help develop my own, which was great.

Oh, it’s great. It's a really supportive community, of really smart people, that want you to be the best that you can.

The scholarship helped me with time management. I was able to cut back on shifts at my casual job, to open up more time for studying and assessments.

I used the scholarship money to buy a new laptop, which was very useful, of course. I also used it to pay off some of my student amenities fees, and I'm hoping to eventually use it to pay off some of my HECS debt as well.

Applying for the scholarship is very straightforward. It took me all of about 10 minutes using an online application form, and then all I had to do at the end was submit my resume, and that was it.

Being a graduate is great. It's exciting and it's challenging. Every day is different. Some days you will be in the office, some days you will be out in the field. It's really nurturing environment and there's a lot to learn and do.

So far in my graduate journey I've worked in Cairns in the city, and then I've moved to the Depot in Hartley St, which has been a good change. I've seen the office environment to the work environment of the Depot. And I soon plan to go down to Townsville, to do some field work, and work in the office down there, to get a bit of diversity and to meet some people in other offices.

There's pretty unlimited career prospects after the graduate program. Looking around the company there is a lot of people that have come out of the graduate program that have reached some pretty high places. It's such a diverse company and there's so many different departments that I could definitely see myself working in and other people could have fun in too.