Join Clean Energy For Eternity on Friday August 21 at 6pm with Professor Lesley Hughes from the Climate Council, for a discussion of the science that underpins the Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan. Hear how CEFE is bringing renewable energy generation to our community facilities as we come to grips with climate change mitigation, adaptation…
Topic: Energy and Transport
The University of Newcastle’s 2020 Science in Practice
Held in August each year, Science in Practice is a one-day event hosted by the Faculty of Science to coincide with Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology, National Science Week. Developed and led by our world-class experts, we’ll be offering a FREE online experience this year, delivering a virtual day of exciting, interactive activities and presentations for the whole…
Pop-In Science Centre
Let the Science on the GO! team guide you through a week’s worth of hands-on, wizz-bang science to celebrate National Science Week. Each day the Science on the GO! team will virtually ‘Pop-In’ to your classroom and demonstrate a different scientific concept. Explore each concept using your very own FREE STEM kit. Everything you need for a…
Careers in Nuclear – for who? You!
Think a career in nuclear couldn’t be for you? Chances are, jobs in nuclear and the people who do them looks nothing like you imagine. This panel is the chance to meet and ask questions of four people who have made careers in the nuclear industry: Julie Murray (Senior Radiation Security Advisor and Major Projects…
Glowing Green – How green is nuclear energy?
This may come as a shock – nuclear reactors glow blue, not green. Thanks Homer for this misconception, d’oh! But nuclear power is green in other ways. Nuclear power is the world’s second largest source of low emissions electricity generation. And just like pretty much every other form of technology, the types of reactors under…
Gadgets, Gizmo’s and Whirligigs
National Science Week activities across the school with a focus on engineering.
Curtin University joins The Big Watermelon Experiment
Come and join us to celebrate National Science Week with one fruity (and somewhat messy) science experiment. At this free event we will investigate how many rubber bands does it take to implode a watermelon. Predict, plan, explore the forces at work and participate in a mass collaboration in science. Watch University teams compete to…
COOL AERONAUTICS: Space Travel…How can I be a part of it?
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to sit in the space shuttle as it is about to launch… do you wonder what it takes to become an astronaut, would you like to be a part of the team designing and building the rockets that will take us to Mars? Learn how STEM is…
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…
EcoScience Schools Day
Central Australian schools are invited to participate in a series of free fun, informative and educational activities as part of Central Australia’s premier sustainability event – the 2020 EcoFair Science Schools Fair. The Ecofair Science Schools Event will run over two weeks, coinciding with National Science Week. Workshops will be presented by local and interstate…