Mercedes College will focus on our unique position as a school in the heart of the CBD for National Science Week. We will focus on two challenges in the city, homelessness and waste with its associated pests. Firstly, students will be given the challenge to devise food solutions for people without traditional methods of food…
Topic: Health and Medical
Disco Fruit – Different by Design
The week will consist of individual year level classroom based investigations involving students from Transition to Year 6. Students will engage with hands on investigations and experiments that demonstrate how fruits and vegetables are naturally different by design. Students will participate in investigating cross cut sections of fruits and vegetables that may appear outwardly similar…
Mini Masterchefs! What Can you Create?
As the theme for this year is Food – Different by Design, our challenges for the students include creative food preparation and designing a new scarecrow for our school kitchen garden. * Whole school challenge K-6: Create your own delicious and healthy smoothie * Stages 2 & 3 challenge: Create an appetising dinner meal using mince. …
National Science Week Lecture Series @ Cairns SHS
This is a series of lectures to inspire students of all year levels and encourage them to develop their curiosity in the science world and open their minds up to the possibility of careers in science. The lectures and interactive sessions include: Wednesday 18 August The 2021 AIP Lecture Series delivered by Dr. Martin Stringer…
Indigenous Uses of Plants
Indigenous man Adam Shipp from Yurbay will come to the school and give a talk about traditional uses of plants. After the talk, the students will be exposed to native plants and investigate the environmental factors and sustainability of them. How the ancient cultures used and harvested these plants and the medicinal and healing properties…
WA Health Hackathon Week
The WA Health Hackathon Week will bring together a diverse group of data professionals, digital specialists & students to explore innovative digital and data-driven solutions to real world healthcare challenges. There are some fantastic prizes to be won, including AWS sponsorship and a one-on-one med-tech workshop with Perth BioDesign directors. What will the week involve?…
Glow in the dark: Using fluorescence to observe DNA in a living cell
Using fluorescence to see DNA in real-time. Dr Elizabeth Hinde will show how physics allows us to uncover in real-time the spatial reorganisation of the DNA network that seems to be serving as an epigenetic layer of control for gene expression. This event is part of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Science’s Science Festival….
Bungendore Public School Science Day
There will be a variety of activities going on across the whole school for National Science Week: teachers talk to classes and introduce science week theme. Year 6’s pick up Kindy’s and take them to their peer support classes. Year 6 students leading a making ice cream experiment. Two bags of ice cream will be…
You Are What You Eat!
Students will participate in a number of lunchtime activities over National Science Week related to the theme of food and sustainability. Events include: Cooking with and tasting products made from farmed insects Meat free BBQ Taste testing – can you really tell the difference? Exploding water melon
Future Medicine
Necessity is the mother of invention. The supersonic development of several highly-effective COVID-19 vaccines has shown what can be achieved. So why, despite today’s researchers, clinicians and innovators having so many powerful tools at their disposal, do so many promising breakthroughs take so long to reach the doctors’ consulting rooms? From the tangible impact of…