Noon then worked for CSIRO’s Indigenous STEM program. She then obtained her double degree from the University of Newcastle and then moved to studying at ANU, Canberra. Noon found traditional schooling and education in high school to be not suited to her, and received much of her early maths training from a mentor who came to her house. Support and encouragement from her close family, and in particular her grandmother, allowed her to have the confidence to seek a career in science. She describes herself as being "a poor, Aboriginal kid this definitely influenced my experience of the education system and just not being seen in it." She describes her "terrible attendance rate" at high school, and succeeding in science due to tutoring and the help of a mentor. Noon was raised in Coledale, a small town near Tamworth, the country music centre of Australia, with a significant disparity between people of different economic classes.
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