Recipe for Change gets touch of Pepper

YOUNG agro nomist ClaireMarie Pepper (right) will share her secrets to success with Cairns high school students at a special Recipe for Change breakfast hosted by CQUniversity and the Business Liaison Association on Friday.

The CQU alumni topped off completion of her Bachelor of Agribusiness and Food Security by joining a Global Voices student delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Germany last November.

As part of her CQU Global Outbound experience, she had the chance to research Australia’s agricultural emissions reduction policies and to meet high-ranking bureaucrats and Australian Minister for the Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg.

Ms Pepper had previously reached the semi-finals of Australia’s Big Idea competition with a team focused on wave energy and water desalination.

Now she’s started work as a trainee Ruralco agronomist working in the Kingaroy region, while starting honours research into management of a peanut crop disease.

“Having studied in Townsville, I’m enjoying the different landscapes of the South Burnett and seeing different sites,” Ms Pepper says.

The Recipe for Change breakfast will run this Friday from 9am to 11am at CQUni Cairns campus.

Up to 150 participating students will have the chance to explore future careers.