How many rubber bands does it take to implode a watermelon? The Big Watermelon Experiment sought to answer that very odd question in a mass science experiment for school students. But we need more data, so we are going around (the watermelons) again. Schools register for free and will receive learning materials (videos and downloads) in the…
Topic: Agriculture
The STEAM Room: A Science Comedy Experience
Praxical & Stand-Out Comedy will present The STEAM Room, a science, tech, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM) themed comedy night at Sydney’s Giant Dwarf Theatre. The event will highlight leading Australian research through a diverse range of comedians and emerging STEM communicators. Partnering with established comedy room, Stand-Out Comedy, this event will bring together scientists, performers and you…
Something from Nothing – School workshops
Children at the Hopetoun Primary School will learn how to grow produce from food scraps. A session will be held for each class at the school at the Hopetoun Community Resource Centre, so children learn about what you need to start growing something from nothing. We hope to encourage enthusiasm amongst children in home grown…
Food For Thought – Patch
Dan Paris from Mystwood Harvest will run a free two hour workshop on the operation of their farm. This small family owned farm in Esperance Western Australia, uses Regenerative Agriculture techniques to grow and share vegetables with their local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members. Participants attending the workshop will learn about regenerative techniques to be able to grow…
The Future of Food
Food is essential for life, but the global systems we rely on to feed us have become increasingly complex and industrialised. Sometimes it’s hard to know where our food comes from, what’s in it and how healthy or ethically produced it is. Paradoxically, as a global community we face major challenges based on both too…
The Poetry of Science
Would you like to have a bit of fun with the chance to win a prize? Then this is the competition for you! Express a scientific idea/concept through poetry and fill out the form below to enter The Poetry of Science: a science-themed poetry writing competition open to all people in Tasmania for National Science…
Ferment-Home-Station
After a successful 2020 edition, Ferment-Home-Station is back to debunk the science behind fermentation. Join us as we have teamed up with the The Sourdoguh Library in Belgiumg to on a quest to find Tasmania (and maybe Australia’s) oldest sourdough and to deliver a masterclass on sourdough baking by expert chef Morgan Clemenston. Vitus, the…
STEM Eggstravaganza
Our Eggsrtavaganza will begin in National Science Week and involve our birth – 5 group (Little Wallabies) up to Year 11. We will explore books about chick hatching, make our own simple information books and monitor the journey from egg to chick. We will put on a show of The Little Red Hen and build…
Marmion Primary School Science Fair
Marmion is holding it’s first Science Fair, showcasing student’s work and highlighting the STEM tasks and science learning from their science specialist teacher completed in class. On show will be biology projects such as biome dioramas, food chain cups, Daintree Rainforest layers, adaptations investigations and space mini projects. Also on show will be students STEM…
Upstart Express – An explosive national science, innovation and technology challenge for Australia’s young people!
Ignite students’ passion for STEAM, design thinking and building a better world through this fun, fast-paced entrepreneurial journey. The Upstart Express is an explosive science, innovation and technology challenge for students throughout Australia. Students will: Gain skills in creative & critical thinking, teamwork, collaboration, communication. Discover inspiring STEAM careers and journeys. Investigate global/local challenges Explore…