About Akorn Education
Akorn has linked communities to learning since its inception in 2001. Akorn’s Director, Adam Oldmeadow, uses his background as an engineer and passion for learning and teaching to inspire and empower school students to study STEM subjects and pursue a STEM career.
Akorn facilitates events and workshops in collaboration with schools, industry, tertiary organisations and members of the community. We focus on responding to real-world challenges and developing young leaders.
Adam Oldmeadow
Director
Having studied Civil Engineering at Monash University and achieving the award of First Class Honours, Adam has a huge passion for learning and education. Adam has worked for Akorn since 2012. He took over operations from Georgene in 2022. He thoroughly enjoys guiding students to find solutions to real-world problems, improve their time management and set audacious goals for their future.
Highlights include; talking to students about their future, providing advice upon engineering projects, practicing presentations with nervous students and leaving the programs knowing that his students are further empowered to live a happy and fulfilling life.
Georgene is a co-founder of Akorn.
She was the CEO until 2022. Georgene positively impacted the lives of thousands of students. She is enjoying her well-earned retirement.