Learn some basic glass fusing with local glass artist Michelle Gray. You will make fused glass items in the workshop using a microwave kiln. Learn to cut sheet glass and combine it with other decorative elements in a kiln to create unique fused glass items. Thursday 11 August 9:30 am – 2:00 pm. Lunch provided…
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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…
Science Week at St Mary’s College
Starting Monday 15 August, St Mary’s College Primary will be celebrating National Science Week with daily hand-on experiments in class and during lunch. Classroom teachers and the Science Teacher Mr. Jake will work together to make science fun.
Online Live Demo with Aaron Micallef
In Aaron Micallef’s world science and art naturally overlap. Aaron has an established career in science as well as a close relationship with glasswork in both the UK and Australia. His hot glass practice is devoted to capturing the fleeting and magical effects of light in blown and cut glass. A practice complemented by photography,…
St Mary’s College Science Fair
Making glass out of natural materials, harnessing the power of the sun, or looking at the eye itself. Student and teams at the St Mary’s College Primary Campus will battle it out in the Assembly area on Thursday 18 August to see who can use science to explore the world of glass and explain what’s…
National Science Week – Online live demo with Aaron Micallef
In Aaron Micallef’s world science and art naturally overlap. Aaron has an established career in science as well as a close relationship with glasswork in both the UK and Australia. His hot glass practice is devoted to capturing the fleeting and magical effects of light in blown and cut glass. A practice complemented by photography,…
National Science Week – Online live demo with Aaron Micallef
In Aaron Micallef’s world science and art naturally overlap. Aaron has an established career in science as well as a close relationship with glasswork in both the UK and Australia. His hot glass practice is devoted to capturing the fleeting and magical effects of light in blown and cut glass. A practice complemented by photography,…
Discoveries That Changed Our World
Curiosity might have killed Schrödinger’s cat, but it’s also helped advance our society to what it is today. Everything that has made our modern world started from scientific curiosity, and the biggest discoveries and achievements often have subtle, hidden, and surprising histories. You are invited to the third Science at Melbourne lecture of 2022, presented…
National Science Week – Online live demo with Aaron Micallef
In Aaron Micallef’s world science and art naturally overlap. Aaron has an established career in science as well as a close relationship with glasswork in both the UK and Australia. His hot glass practice is devoted to capturing the fleeting and magical effects of light in blown and cut glass. A practice complemented by photography,…
Indigenous Practices Meet Sustainable Fishing
Register to receive this exciting new video lesson and discover the science behind what makes the Lakes and Coorong fishery sustainable to a world-leading standard and how indigenous fishing practices continue today and are being safeguarded for the future. You’ll hear from Elders past, present and emerging as we pay our respects to Ngarrindjeri land…