Every year our school, Katherine South Primary School, holds a ‘Meet the Scientist” Science Expo. We highlight and explore a wide range of aspects of science, including technology, health, fossils, chemistry and biology. There is input and support from the wider Katherine community, as we have the local library, St John’s ambulance, Indigineous health services,…
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Festival of Bright Ideas
Showcasing the brightest innovation, research and technology happening in Tasmania. The Festival of Bright Ideas is sizzling with exciting science to blow your curious and creative mind. As Tasmania’s premier National Science Week event, come along and immerse yourself in the wonderful world of science through hands-on activities. Explore sustainability initiatives for a better world,…
Festival of Bright Ideas – Schools’ Day
Do you have students with curious and creative minds that want to find out more about science and the world around them? Then the Festival of Bright Ideas Schools’ Day on Friday 18 August is the place to be to get their questions answered. With over 30 exhibitors your students will be able to immerse…
Dr Karl: Future Careers in Science
Dr Karl’s fun, inspirational talk will cover five main areas in future careers in science, how this will affect students and become important in their future working lives: Computer and information technology and how computers will be as smart as we are. Genetic engineering and how today’s students will ‘live forever’. Engineering. How we will…
Dr Karl: Great Moments in Science
Kick off National Science Week with Australia’s living legend of science communication, and teller all things true and trivial. Join us for this very special Island of Ideas presentation with the one and only Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Get a fresh dose of mind-bending facts and an update on the state of the planet. If you’ve…
Biggera Waters State School Science Fair Competition
The Biggera Waters State School Science Fair competition is open to all students from Prep to Year 6. Students are invited to submit their entry into the competition. All entries need to be accompanied by a Scientific Journal. Divisions and categories are the same as the Gold Coast Griffith University Science competition. Winning entries will…
Coombabah State School Science Fair Competition
The CSS Science Fair competition is open to all students from Prep to Year 6. Students are invited to submit their entry into the competition. All entries need to be accompanied by a scientific journal. Divisions and categories are the same as the Gold Coast Griffith University Science Competition. Winning entries will be invited to…
Beaker Street Festival Hub @ TMAG
The Beaker Street Festival Hub at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is a pop-up science bar, a parlour of curiosities, an inn for inquiring minds. Here, at the bustling Festival centre, you’ll find live music, zoological oddities, photographic inspiration, amiable wandering scientists, seriously good food and drink, and such a bounty of distractions that…
KIOSC Science Communication Conference
The Knox Innovation, Opportunity and Sustainability Centre (KIOSC) based at Swinburne’s Wantirna campus provides STEM-based experiences to schools from all over Victoria. In 2022 KIOSC is celebrating 10 years of innovative STEM education. In honour of National Science Week, the Science Communication Conference is planned to be held on 18 August for students from Knox…
Kaarakin Black Cockatoo @ Girrawheen
An educational and interactive talk about the latest research projects that cover bird cognition and behaviour and the impact of environmental changes in their habitat. Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre is the only centre dedicated purely to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of the three threatened and endemic species of black cockatoos that inhabit southwest…