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24 February 2021
Award-Winning Maths Program for Rockingham Schools
Maths lessons will never be the same when eight primary school teachers from the Kwinana-Rockingham area kick-start the award-winning Alcoa Champions of Maths program in Term 1. Scitech and Alcoa Australia have been delivering the Champions of Maths program in the Upper South West, Peel and Kwinana areas since 2019,...
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18 February 2021
Major boost for Peel region’s key waterways
In a major boost for key waterways in the Peel region, Alcoa has announced more than $1.15 million in additional funding from our global charity, Alcoa Foundation.
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03 January 2021
Alcoa’s Christina Fahl is blazing a trail for women in resources
Alcoa’s Christina Fahl is a finalist in the inaugural ‘Technical Innovation’ category of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy’s Women in Resources Awards for 2021.
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03 January 2021
Local families benefit from COVID-19 relief partnership
A purpose-built, locally targeted campaign to help people across a number of communities deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic over the past eight months has delivered 13,950 meals to families doing it tough.
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22 December 2020
Local students get a taste of university life
Alcoa employees have volunteered to share their university and career experience with high school students across the Kwinana, Peel and Upper South West regions this year through a unique program that encourages young people to consider a tertiary education.
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11 December 2020
Champions of Maths Graduate!
Maths teaching in primary schools across Mandurah, Pinjarra and Rockingham has received a boost with eight teachers about to graduate from the highly successful Alcoa Champions of Maths Program. This is the second cohort of teachers to graduate since the Scitech-delivered program was introduced in 2019 as an extension to...
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11 December 2020
Mandurah community put ‘mussel’ into reef restoration
More than 100 local residents and school students are volunteering to help grow mussels to rebuild shellfish reefs in the Peel-Harvey Estuary. This ‘mussel gardening’ program is headed by The Nature Conservancy and funded by the Alcoa Foundation, as part of a project to re-establish shellfish reef ecosystems in this...
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02 December 2020
Alcoa celebrates International Volunteer Day
More than 400 workers from Alcoa’s Pinjarra Alumina Refinery have epitomised the spirit of International Volunteers Day, on 5 December, by volunteering for more than 1,640 hours to help about 40 community groups and charities in the Peel region.
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02 December 2020
Scitech-Alcoa program to improve STEM outcomes wins prestigious award
A unique program to improve students’ outcomes in mathematics and in turn their career prospects has won Alcoa and Scitech Western Australia’s prestigious Resources Sector Community Partnership Award.
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25 November 2020
Local domestic violence recovery program changing lives
The lives of another ten local women and their families have now changed for the better, since participating in Safe Woman Safe Family’s Alcoa-funded Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Program.
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