During National Science Week, Sea Lake Neighbourhood House will have an unforgettable, high impact VR incursion day for local students, teachers, and interested community members. The ClassVR is a fun, hands-on and interactive platform that will provide Sea Lake residents with the opportunity to experience cutting-edge technology. Throughout the day, the instructors will demonstrate various…
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Deadly Science at Deanmore Primary School
Using Corey Tutt’s ‘The First Scientists’ as inspiration, students will be exploring Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples. Older students will be developing activities for younger students to participate in over the course of the week in a Science Fair layout. The First Physicists – Why does a boomerang fly? What is the most effective…
Ice Pressed Glass Workshop
In this two-part workshop learn how to make ice-pressed glass using botanicals collected locally. Firstly, join Cr Megan Daniels on Sunday 14 August for a walk through a local nature reserve collecting botanicals before heading back to Outback Exploratorium to begin the ice pressing process. Return on Monday to complete the artwork. Part one: 10…
Wine ‘n’ Cheese Cut and Grind Class
Learn basic glass cutting with local glass artist Michelle Gray. Cutting and repurposing glass bottles grinding them into smooth useful vessels. A glass of wine on arrival with cheese grazing platters, please feel free to bring along any extra beverages. This event is for adults only 18+.
Glass Flower Sculpting with Sci-artist Michelle Gray
Fire up a gas torch and learn to melt glass to form your beautiful glass flowers in this fun and exciting workshop with local glass artist Michelle Gray. In this workshop, you will learn the beginner techniques of working with hot glass to form and sculpt your masterpieces. Lunch provided by a local caterer Like…
Glass Cutting with Michelle Gray
In this two-part workshop, learn basic glass cutting with local glass artist Michelle Gray. Cutting and repurposing glass bottles grinding them into smooth useful vessels. Open to ages 12 – 18 years. Part one: 5.00 – 7:00 pm, Thursday 11 August Part two: 3:30 – 5:00 pm, Friday 12 August
No Longer Just Bones – Palaeontology in the 21st-century
Have you ever wondered what a palaeontologist does? Join Dr Vera Korasidis as she explains what really happens on a dig hunting for fossils, and what scientists do after they find them! Learn how ancient pollen preserved for millions of years can help reconstruct past climates and even help us understand what a daily menu…
The Australian Grasshopper That Has Given Up Sex
What can a unique ‘matchstick’ grasshopper that’s evolved into an all-female species teach us about evolution? The answer is simple – a lot! How is this unique species thriving and just as ecologically successful as its counterparts that breed by sex? And how does this significant research fundamentally challenge current evolutionary theory about the advantages…
Tree Species Selection for Future Climates – More difficult than you think
We currently use tree selection processes that are either based on experience of practitioners or on science approaches that are deeply flawed and not fit for purpose. But the new science approaches have found their way into councils and they are making tree selection decisions based on it. Thus, we are getting bad decisions based…
The Crazy Places Data Science Can Take You
Data science is an amazing field that brings together mathematics and >computer science – along with biology, physics, chemistry, policy, finance, climate science, advertising… you name it and data scientists are probably working on it. In this masterclass we welcome data scientists Dr Christopher Baker and Isobel Abell from the School of Mathematics and Statistics,…