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…
Topic: Health and Medical
Sci Art Walks – Beaker Street Festival
Question: What’s Covid-safe, accessible from anywhere in the world, but not virtual? Answer: Beaker Street Festival 2020. Like everyone, we’ve had to innovate this year, and we’ve come up with an exciting new project called Sci Art Walks. Sci Art Walks is a series of audio-escapes featuring some of Tasmania’s most accomplished scientists and artists….
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…
Dr Karl’s House Party
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…
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…