The SCINEMA International Science Film Festival will be holding a community screening program throughout National Science Week, 13-21 August 2016. If your school, community group or organisation is interested in hosting a screening here’s what you need to do: Take a look through the programs and decide which one is right for your event. Select a…
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National Science Week in WA’s Great Southern
Events highlighting new technologies and innovations in southwest WA will feature the science of marine mammals of Albany’s harbours, a Meet the Curators and Young Naturalists event at WA Museum Albany, Coder Dojo as well as SciFilm and SCINEMA short films. Highlighting new technologies and innovations throughout August Explore natural history of whales, dolphins, sea lions and fur seals…
Alan Alda and National Science Week
We were very lucky to meet Alan Alda when he came to Australia in March this year. Alan came to Australia for the inaugural World Science Festival in Brisbane and to announce a partnership with the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Alan generously agreed to filming an interview with us about…
Sydney Science Festival 2016
International Sydney Science Festival guest Amy Sheira Teitel is a US-based blogger and author who writes about science, space and the universe. With over 100 events, the second Sydney Science Festival program is now online! The eleven-day celebration to mark National Science Week 2016 runs from 11-21 August and includes talks, workshops, tours and events…
Dr Ellen Jorgensen visits Sydney
The founder and Executive Director of Genspace, Dr Ellen Jorgensen, will be visiting Australia as part of National Science Week 2016. Ellen is passionate about increasing science literacy in both student and adult populations, particularly in the areas of molecular and synthetic biology. Her work at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, is dedicated to…
Teacher resource book now available
The Drones, Droids and Robots resource book by the Australian Science Teachers Association is now available as an interactive online eBook or via download (PDF, 10 MB). The book’s foreword is by engineer and entrepreneur Marita Cheng and it has hundreds of up to the minute (well, up to last month) examples of the latest research and practical uses…
Fossilised records
Sometimes it’s not only the fossils that tell the story, but the records of their collectors as well! Many collections housed at the Queensland Museum hold fascinating historical insights. Particularly when looking at sites that have been collected for long periods of time, by numerous collectors. One such site, on the Western Darling Downs, is…
Small grant recipients in WA
Congratulations to all of the successful applicants for small grants of up to $2000 (with a total of $19,000 being awarded) in Western Australia: Ballajura Public Library: Raspberry Pi in the Futures Lab Bush Heritage Australia: Shark Bay – science is all around us City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Library: Make and Move – Robotics and Coding Collie Family Centre: Animal Rescue Kurongkurl Katitjin:…
School Grant Recipients 2016
Congratulations to the 248 schools that have been successful in sharing the grant pool of $90,000, with each receiving up to $500. Thank you to each and every one of the 586 schools who applied – this was a record number of applications! And thanks to the Australian Science Teachers Association and their state chapters for…
‘U’ is for Unknown
We humans think we know Lots! And this is where the museums and herbaria come in, where it is our job to discover, collect and preserve, and make the ‘unknown’ species ‘known’. Museum collections are the material evidence of these species discoveries. The specimens of any species can be checked years, even centuries later using…