Premium Content Subscriber only Rockhampton State High School students traded places Wednesday, donning high vis gear and getting on the tools. The hands-on ‘Tradie for a Day’ workshop was run by the Queensland Resources Council’s education arm, the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy. It encouraged Year 10 students to consider a VET or STEM pathway to a job in the resources sector. Tradie for a Day at Rockhampton State High School 2021 The QRC described itself as Queensland’s peak body for coal, metal and gas explorers, producers and suppliers. It said the sector contributes one in every five dollars to the state economy, sustains one in six Queensland jobs, supports more than 15,000 businesses and contributes to more than 1,200 community organisations - “all from 0.1 per cent of Queensland’s land mass”.