STEM School Holiday Camp-Robotic Coding

Three days camp will provide an opportunity for the beginner who loves to coding their creative ideas on robot. The program is available Australia-wide, including for regional, rural and remote communities. Please note, you need to have compatible hardware (makeblock mBot and LED matrix) to participate in this program. World’s First Bowling Robot Are you…

Cyclic Dynamics in Tasmanian High Mountain Treeless Vegetation

The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to a lecture by Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, recipient of the 2019 Clive Lord Medal Cyclic Dynamics in Tasmanian High Mountain Treeless Vegetation Tasmanian high mountain treeless vegetation is globally outstanding for its dominance by shrubs, hard-leaved graminoids and cushion plants, many of which are Cretaceous palaeoendemics. The…

ICRAR Monologue Competition Winners

Join us online and on Noongar Boodjar as we announce the winners of the inaugural ICRAR Monologue Competition. Writers from around Western Australia created Monologues about the problems that science raises and solves. Performers brought creative solutions to life in a web series for the wider Australian audience to enjoy. These videos are not short…

The Leadership movie screening – ACT

Join us for a screening of The Leadership Film at Dendy cinema in Canberra. The Leadership is an independent documentary which focuses on the first Homeward Bound program and the systemic inequalities for women in STEM. CEO and dreamer Fabian Dattner leads an international group of 76 scientists on an Antarctic voyage for leadership training….

The Leadership film & panel discussion

Watch this amazing film and hear a live panel of female scientists talk about their challenging and rewarding experiences on their voyage. Fabian Dattner, an Australian CEO, leads an international group of 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them into the leaders they want to be. Her hope is that once…

Love Outdoors: Endless possibilities in COVID lockdown

Feeling stuck in lockdown, join our online session to celebrate National Science Week and explore ways you can make a 10 minute walk as interesting as discovering an absolute nature secret. We are doing it through citizen science. Many interesting things have stopped but the STEM Catalyst team in stage 4 restrictions continue to amaze…

Makerspace Adelaide 1st Birthday (Virtual) Open Day

It’s our 1st Birthday and  it’s National Science Week. Makerspace Adelaide first opened its doors to the public on 22 August 2019. To celebrate 12 months of collaboration, new friendships, education, and of course making, we’re hosting our first ever Virtual Open Day. Join us on Saturday 22 August from 3-5pm (ACST) as we take…

Science Week at Pia Wadjarri RCS

Writing about our experiences with the ocean, using the Deep Blue program and the SPECTRA Cards, researching sea life, watching videos and reading about the ocean and the effects of oil spills on our environment. We will write about the time we went to the cultural camp and all the things we saw while we…

MakeX Competition – Smart light challenge

2020 MakeX spark online is a creative design competition for young inventors, aged between 6 to 13. The participating team (student with a mentor) will need to accept one or both challenge(s) and devise a solution using problem solving techniques from the industry. The solution will be presented in a poster with topics including research,…

MakeX Competition – Housework helper challenge

2020 MakeX spark online is a creative design competition for young inventors, aged between 6 to 13. The participating team (student with a mentor) will need to accept one or both challenge(s) and devise a solution using problem solving techniques from the industry. The solution will be presented in a poster with topics including research,…