This online event will include live captions. Dr Karl invites you to join him to kick off National Science Week with an awesome house party. Streamed live into your lounge room, learn about the animal that has to grow an anus each time it wants to defecate, how spiders can fly for thousands of kilometres and also…
Topic: Health and Medical
Oceans Innovation Challenge
How might we change the future of our oceans-for the better? What innovative idea would you love to see applied here in WA? Your challenge is to help us find and lead on an innovative solution from around the world and suggest where or how it could be applied locally in WA. Submit your idea…
Challenge: Make your own seaweed spheres
One of the greatest contributors of plastic pollution in our oceans are single-use plastics which have been littering our coasts, endangering our wildlife and polluting our oceans. Sign up to make seaweed spheres-plastic free water bubbles made from sodium alginate which is derived from seaweed. These bubbles are 100% edible, entertaining,environmentally friendly and easily made…
E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ – hackathon
Join us for a 12-hour hackathon as part of the E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ project. In this event, the second of two for National Science Week, we invite you to contribute to a crowdsourced citizen science project which aims to share information about the essential medicines and ultimately improve access to these medicines. School Events To complement…
Live From The Lab – join musicians and scientists in a panel discussion
Join us for an in-depth online discussion between participating musicians and scientists on Friday 21 August from 3.00 – 4.15 pm Live From The Lab (LFTL) is a celebration of science, music, arts and culture. LFTL challenged six local artists to create six new musical compositions inspired by the six cutting-edge Australian science research projects…
Story Time for Young People and Families – “Here We Are”
You can join Nat from State Library of Queensland as she talks about the importance of looking for science every day with young children and families. Nat reads the beautiful children’s book Here we are by Oliver Jeffers. The story time is published on three Facebook pages at 10am on Friday 21 August: @slqPlay, @first5forever, …
Veski STEM filminators video of the year
Calling all budding scientists and science communicators: veski wants Victorian secondary school students to get creative and produce a STEM video to compete for the veski STEM filminators video of the year. More than ever STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is involved in our everyday lives. In order to make well-informed decisions, about our…
Live From The Lab – on FBi Radio
Each weekday morning from 8.15 – 8.45 am on FBi Radio (95.4 FM or stream online), from Friday 14 August to Friday 21 August. Live From The Lab (LFTL) is a celebration of science, music, arts and culture. Six Sydney musicians and performers will be partnered with six Australian science researchers from each of the…
Within Reason: Trusting science in a time of crisis
In a special National Science Week edition of our Dean’s Lecture Series, four speakers will explore how and why people trust – or distrust – science during crises. Why do people deny or ignore the science of climate change, or the miracle of vaccines? How does a jury decide which forensic evidence to trust? And…
STEMfit. The maths of motion: Traditional arts meets modern science
Sport and physical play is a creative medium most children identify strongly with. Sport is ingrained in the Australian psyche and highly valued, yet STEM skills, widely recognised as essential for the jobs of tomorrow suffer a lack of interest to the same degree as sport in general. This will link activities of the remote…