As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14th August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
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Environmental Conditions and the Growth of Plants
Students will explore a variety of conditions which influence the growth of plants.
Community Plant Based Recipe Competition
Creating a plant based community cookbook. As part of National Science Week celebrations John Curtin College of the Arts Roots and Shoots club in association with the Science, Food Technology and Media departments are running a competition to find our communities favourite plant based recipes. The 2021 theme Food: Different by Design can not only…
Communicating Science Through Games Workshop | Perth
In partnership with National Science Week, join us at SAE Creative Media Institute Perth for a free Communicating Science Through Games workshop. Have you ever wanted to explore making games? How about making games with meaning? Share knowledge of your favourite scientific field through your own game. You can tell an interactive story; Make an…
The Science of Ears & Hearing | Research program for high school students
Calling all Perth budding researchers. Take part in our research program, and be mentored by Ear Science Institute Australia’s Brain & Hearing research team. Ear Science will provide students with an opportunity to immerse themselves in a real-life research project, impacting on the lives of people with hearing impairment and contributing to our impact in…
Communicating Science Through Games Workshop | For women and girls
In partnership with National Science Week, join us at SAE Creative Media Institute Perth for a free Communicating Science Through Games workshop. Have you ever wanted to explore making games? How about making games with meaning? Share knowledge of your favourite scientific field through your own game. You can tell an interactive story; Make an…
Social Entrepreneurship, Complexity Science & Systems Thinking
There are two social entrepreneurship approaches that focus on addressing complex wicked problems: the complexity approach which is underpinned by complexity science, and the social innovation school approach which is underpinned by systems thinking. During this webinar we will compare and contrast these systems social entrepreneurship approaches. Social entrepreneurship’s complexity approach focuses on the creation…
Dodges Ferry Primary Science Festival
We will have a lot of student groups leading science demonstrations, experiments and samples for the school community.
Free online screening: A Plastic Ocean – 22 minute condensed version
Each minute, the equivalent of a garbage truck of rubbish enters the worlds oceans, estimated to cause the death of over a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles every year. As humans, we aren’t immune to the impacts of our addiction to plastic, with scientists predicting that we are eating a credit card size…
Swim with the Giant Australian Cuttlefish – Virtual tour
An internationally unique marine phenomena occurs from May to August each year, in the cold water of Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park near Whyalla. This amazing annual event is the aggregation of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish, who migrate to the rocky coastline with one thing on their mind, to breed. The Giant Australian Cuttlefish is…