The EcoCentre is thrilled to launch our suite of free 45-minute online incursions throughout Term 3. Your students will participate in a range of activities through Zoom, including video delivery and online Q&As with our educators. We deliver our activities through the ‘head, heart, hand’ approach to connect students to sustainable living choices and encouraging…
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Seminar: Sharks of Port Phillip Bay
Join Ben Francischelli on a journey into the depths of Port Phillip Bay (Victoria) as he talks all things sharks. Ben is one of the EcoCentre’s Education Facilitators and an experienced Vertebrate Palaeontologist. Ben is leading expeditionary teams into the Bay that are re-writing the palaeontological history of Australia and has discovered the remains of…
Free Online Incursions: Sharks and Rays of Port Phillip Bay
The EcoCentre is thrilled to launch our suite of free 45-minute online incursions throughout Term 3. Your students will participate in a range of activities through Zoom, including video delivery and online Q&As with our educators. We deliver our activities through the ‘head, heart, hand’ approach to connect students to sustainable living choices and encouraging…
Why Girls Totally Rock
Alexandra Radulovich is a chartered, senior geotechnical engineer with Douglas Partners and a member of Engineers Australia’s Women in Engineering Committee. She is a passionate engineer who wants to share her love of dirt and rocks and get more girls excited about engineering. Join her this National Science Week on her journey of how she…
Mulligan’s Flat Night Walk
A Special National Science Week Tour Join a guide for a spotlighting tour chatting everything science this National Science Week. Experience the sanctuary at night when it comes alive. Learn of the years of research that has been conducted in Mulligans and why we have worked so hard to protect it. A night tour at…
Spotlight on Science
Join us online in celebrating National Science Week and learn from our panel of local scientists about their areas of expertise, their research and the path that led them there. Panellists (almost Dr) Bethany Ellis, Palaeoclimatologist PhD candidate, Australian National University (ANU) Associate Professor Nathan Langford, Physicist and Quantum Engineer, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Mr…
Fire with Stephen Pyne
What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere. Join the world’s leading fire historian, Stephen Pyne, for a fascinating exploration of the history of fire along with insights…
National Science Week at Wellington Shire Libraries
This year our libraries will celebrate National Science Week with the offering of primary school home packs, based on the 2020 theme Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans. Packs will be available throughout Science Week as part of our libraries Click & Deliver service. Families can request a pack be included with…
Celebrating Food Science & Technology as a Career
National Science Week is an opportunity for everyone to talk science, see science and do science. During the Week, AIFST will be turning the spotlight onto food science & technology as a career and what the future holds. Hear from a range of food industry professionals about their food science journey and the future. Over…
Peel Bright Minds presents: Black Bream Project
Did you know that Black Bream complete their whole life cycle in the estuary in which they are born? Their home is their home forever, therefore it is so important that we make sure they have a sustainable habitat in the Peel Harvey Estuary. This National Science Week we’re taking a look at local innovation,…