Want to know what it’s like to work in the Australian nuclear science community? Five fabulous Women in Nuclear (WiN) Australia members will showcase what a day in the life of a member of the nuclear science community is like through a Twitter take over. Throughout the day you will be given a glimpse on…
Topic: Energy and Transport
Oakbank School Science Day
Students in the Primary School will participate in a science day. This day will be open to parents and community members to attend. Students will take part in science activities throughout the day these include; Glass mosaic tiles, Glass wind chimes, Sugar glass biscuits, Kaleidoscopes and Periscopes, Greenhouses, Solar Panels, Magnifying Glass investigations. Activities will…
Asteroids to Oceans: What makes research possible in Australia?
Australia’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) ensures that researchers have access to the facilities, equipment and resources they need to produce world-class research. These resources range from supercomputers and microscopes to datasets and software platforms, all provided through 27 NCRIS projects and facilities around Australia. With the resources provided by the NCRIS projects, researchers…
Exploring Exciton Science
Could you imagine a future where all light hitting our buildings, clothes and cars is transformed into renewable energy? A future where light powers our world. Join Dr Chris Hall and learn about exciton science, and all the possibilities for transforming light into energy and energy into light. Dr Hall is a part of the…
Flying Photon vs Dark Dooley
A phascinating phusion of physics, as The Flying Photon meets Phil Up on Science. Rayner Explainer’s award-winning show The Flying Photon bumps up against Dr Phil Dooley’s dark side, in a frenzied finale to National Science Week. Rachel Rayner’s show glitters and sparkles, despite Dr Phil’s best efforts to darken her horizons, talk about invisible…
Dream Big: Engineering our World Screening and Activities
Join in for a screening of the film Dream Big: Engineering Our World presented by Engineers Australia as well as the chance to ask questions to professionals about careers in engineering. After the screening stay around as we will have different fun activities set up for kids to get hands on with science and technology….
Glass: a window into quantum physics
The school theme for National Science Week this year is Glass: More than meets the eye, based on the UN International Year of Glass. It will celebrate the many roles that glass plays in our lives – from phone screens to optical fibre to glassware in labs – plus investigating glass as a part of…
Superstars of STEM at USC
Superstars of STEM aims to smash society’s gender assumptions about scientists and increase the public visibility of women in STEM. Science and Technology Australia started Superstars of STEM to create a critical mass of celebrity Australian women who work as scientists and technologists – role models for young women and girls – and to work…
Science and Engineering Challenge – Mt Gambier
The Science and Engineering Challenge is a day-long competition designed to provide Year 10 or Year 9 students with a positive experience of science and engineering. A maximum of 8 schools per day compete against each other at one venue. Each school ‘team’ is divided into eight groups of between 2 to 4 students per…
Immersive Earth: Enter the Curnamona Cube
For National Science Week, a small team of AuScope creatives and University of Adelaide geoscientists invite you to peep deep into the Australian continent to help unravel an untold geological story. Join this imaginative arts-science team via a self-guided, immersive and multimedia-rich digital experience, and share any questions that pop up along the way, either…