9 GREAT THINGS IN 9 GOOD DAYS The Great Goodness 9 in 9 Challenge is about celebrating all things goodness. e are challenging you and your friends to share 9 great things in the 9 good days days of the Goodness Festival (15 – 23 August) for a chance to win cool prizes and maybe…
Topic: Archaeology and Antiquity
Big Dumb Fun Ocean Quiz Game Night
Bring the whole family as MAJEK Collective goes Big Dumb Fun Ocean Quiz Game crazy for National Science Week at the Goodness Festival. Less a quiz and more of a weird adventure…where you learn all about the ocean on a fun night out. Dress up as your favourite ocean related creature. Bring simple drawing, dancing…
The ID Crowd at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre
Come along to the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre on Saturday 22nd August from 10am to 2pm and ask an expert from our ID CROWD. Bring in your specimen or a photo of it. Our ID Crowd include: Dr Anne Felton Marine Geologist; professional divers from Dive Eden; local Fisheries officers; NPWS staff; members of…
In Conversation with author, James Bradley
Public Libraries NSW and City of Parramatta Libraries presents Amy Heap chatting with James Bradley as he talks about his new book ‘Ghost Species. The talk takes place online from 6:30pm to 7:30pm AEST This free online author talk will be presented via Zoom with a Q &A session at the end. Copies of the…
FameLab Academy Online Live
We are inviting Western Australian schools to tune in LIVE for a very special National Science Week event for the pilot of FameLab Academy in Australia. Your students will be part of the virtual audience at Cecil Andrews College, as thirteen Western Australian students take to the stage to deliver short and sharp explanations on their chosen topic from…
STEM Design Challenge for Regional Students
This National Science Week, the University of Technology Sydney, Engineers Without Borders and Tech Girls Movement Foundation invite regional students to create for your community in a two-day design challenge. On Thursday 20 & Friday 21 August, classes from Stage 3 and 4 can join our virtual classroom to design, create and build solutions to…
GIRT Scientific Divers
The citizen science project Gathering Information via Recreational and Technical (GIRT) Scientific Divers is a no-impact public archaeology program and part of a PhD research project at the University of New England that aims to: better understand the motivation of divers; the condition of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural heritage; and the factors driving shipwreck…
Maritime Archaeology – presented by the SA Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society
Associate Professor Jonathan Benjamin is a specialist in the archaeology of submerged landscapes, Pleistocene-Holocene transitions and applied methods in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology at Flinders University. Dr Benjamin’s research interests include past human transitions and cultural migrations, the inundation of coastal sites and the resulting impacts on past societies. He is an expert in diver-based…
Shirty Science Season Home
Dust off those art supplies because Shirty Science Season Home is streaming scientists straight into your lounge room so you can try your hand at science shirt making and learn a few things in the process. Each weeknight of National Science Week, Shirty Science will go live on Instagram with a Canberra scientist, armed with…
Challenge: Go plastic free this July
By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. WOAH. It’s up to all us to be the change we want to see in the world if we’re to make a plastic-free future come to life. Are you brave enough to make a start? Challenge: Take part in Plastic Free July, and…