About Us

Deadly Coders

We are an Indigenous owned and managed not-for-profit on a mission to ignite learning and career pathways in STEM for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students across Australia.

Deadly Coders Academy exists to provide pathways to meaningful tech industry careers for Indigenous students and job seekers.  
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Why Deadly Coders Academy

A tailored DEI and skill gap solution

The Deadly Coders Academy helps organisations find and place Indigenous talent into entry level roles

The academy delivers hands-on, quality learning programs that develop practical entry-level skills in either software engineers or cyber security disciplines for Indigenous job seekers.

We are focussed on areas of critical skills shortage in Australia: Cyber Security and Software Engineering are specific areas where Australia’s largest companies are looking for qualified, entry level technicians to enter traineeship programs. 

Our History

After seeing the under-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Junior Engineers‘ coding classes, the EdTech Group initiated a pilot program called Deadly Coders in 2021. The initiative was designed to provide fully subsidised coding, robotics and cyber security programs to Indigenous students who would not normally be able to attend our classes.

In 2023, Junior Engineers handed Deadly Coders to community, to establish it as an independent Indigenous owned and managed charity working to break cycles of disadvantage and dismantle Indigenous barriers to participation in STEM.
EdTech Group remains closely involved with Deadly Coders, and continues to support the charity with program facilitation nationally.
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Objectives

Deadly Coders exists to:

Remove barriers

Deadly Coders will remove barriers to participation by offering fully subsidised training programs in digital technologies education.

Increase engagement in STEM

Deadly Coders will increase the engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in STEM through the delivery of culturally relevant and appropriate educational programs.

Build a diverse future workforce

Deadly Coders will set Indigenous students up for success in STEM related fields through imparting fundamental 21st-century skills, helping to build an inclusive and diverse future STEM workforce.

Facilitate employment outcomes

Deadly Coders supports the economic development of First Nations people, breaking cycles of entrenched disadvantage by facilitating employment and career pathways for graduates of our programs.

Our track record

Since inception in 2021, Deadly Coders has delivered both online and face-to-face programs to over 10,000 Indigenous students across Australia. Our mission is to extend this reach to every Indigenous school student in the next 10 years. 

10K+

Students served

40+

Corporate Partnerships

4

Australian States

56%

Female Indigenous participation

Why do we need these programs?

Our mission is to address entrenched disadvantage and underrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in STEM in Australia.
These statistics have not changed in 20 years.

Entrenched underrepresentation

The Indigenous population is critically underrepresented in STEM at a tertiary level.

A gap in student achievement in STEM

The CSIRO identified a 2.5 year gap in student achievement levels between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students

Early exposure to STEM is critical

QUT Identified that 60% of senior students decide on their area of study before grade 9, with a strong link between early exposure to STEM and future STEM careers. 

International STEM standards

Indigenous students underperformed in Year 8 STEM International Standard scores.
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