Professor John Rice, a pioneer of the Australian Science and Mathematics School (ASMS), posed the question: “How does teaching and learning in schools today speak to students about satellite navigation, biomimetics, laser tweezers, intelligent polymers, quantum computers, or artificial photosynthesis?” He recognized that schools’ curricula were at odds with the kind of science and mathematics driving the new economy. In addition to curriculum that lacked relevance to contemporary life, negative student attitudes and a shortage of qualified science and mathematics teachers were creating a crisis in the field that required a total transformation of existing models of senior science and mathematics education (Masters, 2006; Tytler, 2007). In 2002, a partnership between the South Australian Department of Education and Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, responded to