Membership Information

School / Organisational Membership

• Access to regular PD/ PL opportunities at low or NO cost for at least 3 staff members (with more places usually able to be made available)
• Discounted access to ECAWA State Conference, ACCE Conference and other major PD/ PL events were “member” rates are advertised, for at least 3 staff members (with more discounted places usually able to be made available))
• Voting representatives of the member schools may be elected or co-opted to positions on the ECAWA Committee and other staff may be co-opted to assist the Committee (non voting).
• One person may be nominated to be the voting representative of the school / organisation at General Meetings of the Association. Other staff are encouraged to attend meetings although they are not able to vote.
• Access to grants and subsidies from national groups that may be available from time to time
• Access to online Australian Educational Computing journal* (currently in hiatus)

Individual / Personal Membership

• Access to regular PD/ PL opportunities at low or NO cost
• Discounted access to ECAWA State Conference, ACCE Conference and other major PD/ PL events were “member” rates are advertised
• May be nominated for awards: ECAWA Educator of the Year, ECAWA Educational Leader of the Year, ECAWA Digital Technologies Teacher of the Year
• May be nominated for national recognition: ACS/ACCE Educator of the Year, ACS/ACCE Educational Leader of the Year, ACS/ACCE Digital Technologies Teacher of the Year
• May be elected or co-opted to positions on the ECAWA Committee and may be co-opted to assist the Committee
• Individual members have the right to vote at General Meetings of the Association
• Access to grants and subsidies from national groups that may be available from time to time
• Access to online Australian Educational Computing journal* (currently in hiatus)

Individual / Personal Country Membership – for members living and working more than 100km from Perth

• As for Individual Membership
• Access to extra grants and subsidies from national groups that may become available to members based in rural and regional areas

Retired Individual Membership – for former individual members of ECAWA who have retired from active paid employment

Student Membership – full time, unwaged WA tertiary students (Pre-Service Teachers)

• MUST specify educational institution upon application
• Access to regular PD/ PL opportunities at low or NO cost
• Discounted access to ECAWA State Conference, ACCE Conference and other major PD/ PL events were “member” rates are advertised
• May be co-opted to assist the ECAWA Committee
• Access to some of the grants and subsidies from national groups that may be available from time to time
• Access to online Australian Educational Computing journal* (currently in hiatus)
• No voting rights at General Meetings of the Association, however you are welcome and encouraged to attend these meetings.

ECAWA membership subscriptions run for 12 months and are due at the end of September each year.

You are welcome to join ECAWA at any time, and, if you contact the Secretary secretary@ecawa.wa.edu.au in advance, we may be able to adjust the length of your initial membership period to ensure that you get a full year in your subscription when you first join ECAWA.

For new memberships near the rollover date, e.g. if you joined ECAWA in mid August 2025, we gift you a small extension, and the membership period would be 2025 – September 30th, 2026. This means that for your Membership fee you would receive approximately one year, one month and about ten days of ECAWA membership. Bonus!

After you have submitted your application for membership and your payment of the appropriate membership fee has been received there will be a short interval until the ECAWA Committee can meet to approve/accept the application. This usually happens on the first Wednesday of the month.

During this period you will not be able to vote at any ECAWA General Meeting or be nominated for the ECAWA Committee or nominate any person or second any nomination until the ECAWA Committee has approved / accepted your application for membership.

However you are welcome to attend PL activities including the ECAWA State Conference, at ECAWA Member rates.

Credit Card – our preferred option!  

Electronic Funds Transfer – please contact the Secretary for ECAWA bank account details (and also so we are aware of the transaction and can process it accordingly).