The HealthLAB Team will be visiting Xavier Catholic College in Wurrumiyanga. HealthLAB is an interactive, mobile lab that promotes healthy lifestyles. With the HealthLAB team you can: Test your hydration Find out your reaction time Test your agility See inside your body Test your strength See your future with HealthLAB Time Machine and so much more HealthLAB…
Topic: Health and Medical
Innovation Fueled Lunch Breaks
This year for National Science Week our senior students and staff will run engaging and age-appropriate innovative STEM activities with our R-9 students across two 45-minute lunch breaks. Stations will be set up in our biology lab and will showcase current innovation in the areas of, alternative energy and fuel cells, food sources, connecting our…
No-Knit Neurons Installation
Whether you’re a whiz with yarn or just discovering the joy of craft, drop in the Gallery and take part in a community art project to crochet, wrap, knit or knot your way to a healthier brain. This one’s in partnership with Neural Knitworks, a collaborative project about mind and brain health. For all ages…
No-Knit Neurons Workshop
Fire up those neurons this winter and make no-knit neurons with Neural Knitworks artist Pat Pillai and textile artist Rita Pearce. Promoting mind and brain health, they’ll help participants cut, wrap, curl or knot materials all while learning about neuroscience. Win/win! Pat’s work is informed by a career in laboratory science and her interest in…
Crystal-A-Con
Everyone loves crystals. From snowflakes to diamonds to sugar, we see crystals everyday and we love them for being beautiful, shiny and symmetrical. Crystals are extra special to scientists because they are made up of repeating patterns of atoms and molecules. These patterns allow scientists to use a special technique called ‘crystallography’ to work out…
Dog Mob Cat Crew
AMRRIC’s education program, Dog Mob Cat Crew, will run a school education project at a remote Indigenous schools in the Northern Territory during National Science week, through data capture and monitoring, that lead to improved One Health (animal, human, and environmental health) outcomes for remote communities in Australia. The school-based program will deliver education sessions that demonstrate the…
e-Meet a Biomedical Scientist
We want to celebrate National Science Week by connecting our University of Melbourne Biomedical Scientists with Victorian high school students. The opportunity to talk to our Biomedical Researchers is one of a kind, given they work at the centre of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest biomedical precinct. During 20 to 30-minute video calls, our experts –…
Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge
Help your students design and submit an idea for Arludo’s next big science game. National winners will receive 3 months of mentoring while watching their game come to life. Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge will teach students in Years 3-6 how to design a video game, including how to pick a scientific topic or question,…
FLEX Exhibition at MOD.
Are limits made to be pushed? We dare you to find out. Your capacity for pain will be put to the test and your perception of risk will be gauged in MOD.s new exhibition FLEX. Alter your form and find ways to play, where your body and the rules of the space it inhabits are…
MicroToons Launch Event
Come join us for a time of fun as we celebrate the launch of MicroToons with a stage show, popcorn and interactive science fun that are inclusive for all ages and abilities. MicroToons is an animated science cartoon on based on a short story written by Dr Rina Fu (Scientist-Author-Artist) and brought to life by…