This year, Tasmania had over 30 Brain Break morning teas registered across the state. We offered a $100 ABC Shop voucher to the morning tea that best exhibited what a Brain Break hopes to achieve: fun science in the workplace, at home or at school. We encouraged everyone to put their culinary skills to the…
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Thank you to all event holders – now it’s your turn to win!
Thanks to all your hard work, it has been a fantastic National Science Week! Hundreds of people are involved in events around the state with activities still taking place. (We should just change it to science month really…) Just over the weekend, participants enjoyed the science of seafood at QVMAG, heard about life on the…
Thanks for a great National Science Week in Queensland
National Science Week is over for another year, but fantastic science events will continue to take place around the country. There’s so much science around us every day; look for it, get involved, and enjoy. This National Science Week saw 396 events happen around Queensland, contributing to over 1800 events across Australia. We had the…
Fungi Fanatics Reap Rewards
Experiments and activities based on “food, farming and fungi” kept thousands of school students in the DAFF Hermitage Schools Plant Science Competition busy this year. Students from years prep to twelve performed mouldy bread and yeast-making experiments, played a soils role-play card game, searched their school grounds for lichen species and put all their research and…
Necessity brings innovation in the bush
We often think of science in modern terms. Space, research, computers – things that we see changing our lives from concept into reality. In my travels creating historical documentaries around Australia I see how science has been with us from day dot. Innovation often comes from necessity, and when the needs of our pioneering ancestors…
School grant winners involve their communities in National Science Week
Clover Hill State School, Queensland Academy for Health Sciences, Southport Special School, Pimpama State Secondary College and Marsden State High School are among 22 Queensland schools which have received National Science Week school grants in 2013. More than 190 schools around the country have received grants from the Australian Science Teachers Association to conduct fantastic…
Street Science: Taking Science Education out of the Classroom
Hi, my name’s Steve and I’m a scientist! Most kids call me Science Steve… That’s how I start my science lessons these days. Things are a bit different now to how I taught in the past. Let me give you some background of where I’ve come from. I’ve always been keen on science, always wondered…
School grant winners get creative with science
Beerwah State School, North Lakes College, Fraser Coast Anglican College and Urangan State High School are among 22 Queensland schools which have received National Science Week school grants in 2013. More than 190 schools around the country have received grants from the Australian Science Teachers Association to conduct fantastic science events during National Science Week,…
Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)
Last Wednesday, 7 August, saw a great number of us battling the horrendous Melbourne rain and winds to reach the sold out Wheeler Centre. Drawing everyone in was the prospect of listening to Nobel Prize Winner, author and 1997 Australian of the year Prof. Peter Doherty in conversation with Prof. Ian Frazer, himself winner of…
Street Science hits the road for National Science Week 2013
Liddell Education has booked a SOLD OUT tour of South East Queensland to celebrate National Science Week 2013. ‘Science Steve’ and his team of educators have embarked on a run of live performances, kicking off at the Pine Rivers Show from Friday 2 – Sunday 4 August, where they presented 2 shows daily on the…