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…
Topic: Agriculture
STEAMzone Science Festival in 3D
Our FREE STEAMzone Virtual Science Festival will be conducted on the Open Campus of the VirBela 3D Virtual World. Our annual festival will be moving into a 3D virtual world and you can come along from the comfort and safety of your own home…no masks, sanitiser or social distancing required yet you’ll still feel like…
Science Exchange Series – Cropping in a changing climate
From Geraldton to Esperance, the South-West of WA has experienced increasingly variable climate conditions for over a century. With increasingly drier winters and warmer, wetter summers affecting our state’s cropping industry; we need to gather and integrate knowledge from across Science to understand how best to respond to the challenges ahead. Join three UWA experts,…
The Weird the Wacky of the Animal Kingdom plus DeadlyScience
Join us as we take a journey looking at the weird the wonderful and the wacky animals from around the world. Then we cover all things DeadlyScience where we chat about the original scientists and what we do. Don’t miss it.
Science Exchange Series – Visualising a Virus
When dealing with the strange nanoscopic world that is simply too small to see, experiments and data visualisation approaches are vitally important to our understanding of life on this scale. Brady Johnston is a PhD student in structural biology at UWA. Brady will introduce you to how data is collected and presented, leading to famous images…
UNSW Bragg Student Science Writing Prize
Are you a writer in Years 7-10? Want to win great prizes? What are the solutions that will help us to address global challenges such as catastrophic climate change, global pandemics, severe weather and sea level rise? From bushfire science using smart satellites and Indigneous know-how, to vaccine development, citizen science apps tracking insect population…
Science Exchange Series – What can I actually do with my drone?
Drone use has grown rapidly in recent years. As a society we have come to appreciate drones and remote sensors as affordable tools that enable high resolution and on-demand data collection. Join Dr Nik Callow (Senior Lecturer and UWA Chief Remote Pilot) as he explores the purpose of drones as useful remote sensing tools in…