Roxby’s Virtual Mad Science Week is a free, virtual, hands-on event designed to inspire the children and youth of the Roxby Downs community. The week will feature instructional content for experiments to do at home with activity packs, as well as local knowledge Scientist’s from the Roxby Downs and surrounding areas including from BHP, Arid…
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ANU Student Association National Science Week: Women in STEM Panel
This is a panel consisting of female-identifying academics and researchers from the ANU and wider research community in the ACT who will be speaking about their experiences as women in STEM, giving advice to aspiring female scientists, and talking about how they think gender inequality in STEM can be addressed. This will be followed by…
ANU Student Association: Health Innovation Hackathon – Fighting Pandemics
A collaboration between the Joint College of Science Representatives and ANU Humanitarian Innovation Society, this week-long event challenges teams to solve contemporary scientific and humanitarian problems through an interdisciplinary approach. The program features workshops guided by mentors from academia and industry. This will culminate in a pitch that will be presented to the public and…
Herding Caterpillars
A Zoom webinar on the LYCAENIDAE Family of butterflies, facilitated by the Butterfly Conservation SA (BCSA) and the ‘Friends of the Chequered Copper (Lucia limbaria) Butterfly’. BCSA will prepare and deliver a Webinar and an ArcGIS Story Map about the amazing relationship between ants and butterflies of the Lycaenid Family, focusing on the Chequered Copper…
Celebrating Marine Environments – Plastic NOT Fantastic – Onkaparinga Libraries
Onkaparinga Libraries is presenting for two activities, a video presentation and discussion to understand flotation in water and the impact of plastic pollution in the ocean. Understand water density – make saltwater jars Children will learn about water density by making saltwater jars. Density differences in water and flotation will be discussed, leading children to an…
Wobbly Machine
This is an exhibition of science-inspired art by scientist turned artist Steven Durbach (the scientist) aka Sid Sledge (the artist). His work, which is a series of drawing and mechanical sculptures are constituted by iterative processes. However, the iterations are not perfect. They are wobbly or imprecise – much like the artist and frankly –…
The Sea and Me
This year the Hopetoun CRC are celebrating National Science Week (NSW) with a week of ‘Deep Blue’ related events. These free events have been designed to facilitate our remote coastal communities’ engagement with the ocean and its values. Our aim is that by engaging with all age groups, we will harbour a deeper respect and understanding…
Brain Break – 1st Werribee Scout Group
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.
ANU Student Association: Live Astronomy with Dr Brad Tucker
This collaboration with the ANU Astronomy Society features Dr Brad Tucker who is an astrophysicist and cosmologist based at the ANU. Through a webinar format, Dr Tucker will be talking about astronomy and helping viewers identify celestial objects as they follow along with an interactive sky app.
Brain Break – O’Loughlin Catholic 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.