Explore all the STEM aspects of the wind tunnel, including predicting and experimenting with the terminal velocity of objects. Our program inspires and educates through an immersion of science and technology and then defying gravity by flying. It’s so much more than a lesson, it’s an enriching day of fun and learning that you will…
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Huon Valley STEM Expo
The Huon STEM Expo, organised by the Huonville High Future Energy Team, will involve workshops and displays from the community such as Circular Economy Huon and the University of Tasmania. The focus will be on technology, energy, and waste with a STEM technology challenge on the theme ‘food by design’, to make a solar cooker…
Brain Break – Woodburn Public School
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Brain Break – St Finbarr’s Primary School Byron Bay
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Brain Break – Scotch Oakburn College
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Seed Germination
Year 8 and 9 students will participate by germinating their own broad bean seed in a beaker, making observations and measurements (height), recording objective and subjective assessment for 5 weeks, before planting own seed in a garden bed. Each student will care and tend to their own seed. Measurements and observations to continue after outside…
Creating a Frog-friendly Garden
An educational event that will explain the eco systems required for frogs and what our community can do to provide backyard habitats for our native fauna. The open days and workshops will show people how to create welcoming environments for our native frogs in their own backyards by providing them with the materials to set…
Brain Break – Wallan Secondary College
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Stargazing at Mt Pleasant Radio Observatory
A night for the public to visit the Astronomical Society of Tasmania’s facility at Mt Pleasant and view the evening sky.
STEM Spin Out Sessions
Kingsley College will hold STEM Spin Out Sessions during National Science Week. Centrifuging is one of the more spectacular food science activities. P-12 students will take part in activities that involve centripetal and centrifugal forces, and a microcentrifuge, all centring around how these ideas are applied in food science.