QEST is the association of Queensland Education Science Technicians.

A non-profit, professional association for science technicians in Queensland, members include both state and private science technicians working in secondary and tertiary institutions as well as interstate colleagues.

QEST aims to provide resources, support and training for Queensland science technicians in schools and universities.  To that end QEST produces a quarterly newsletter, organises and hosts an annual conference focused on professional development and offers bursaries and awards to assist members to attend and participate in professional development opportunities that otherwise may not be available to them.

To  join QEST download a membership form.

Sue Holt designed our logo in 2002 and submitted it to the committee with the following reasoning:

“I thought the new logo should have special meaning for us, so I thought of the following analogy (after assembling numerous molecular models for our recent Open Day!)

“Like the bonding forces between atoms, there are strong bonding forces between our members, giving us cohesion.  The link we all share is Queensland education, represented by a double bond for greater combining capacity.

“We are joined to that by single bonds, forming our own special groups (QEST-anes, QEST-enes, QEST-ols or maybe just QEST-ies?!)

“The whole group (molecule) can combine with other groups to give even more stability.

“The bonds allow communication to take place between our members (atoms), with each member (atom) having an influence on the other ones around it.”