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…
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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…
Whole School Marble Run Challenge Day
The Marble Run Challenge day will run for one whole day and include students from Kinder through to Year 6. The day will include an introduction to glass and marbles followed by viewing and discussing examples of marble runs. Students will then work in small groups within their stage to design and create a marble…
Lets Get Physical!: Savoy Dance’s Science dance workshop & social
Calling all swing dancers: it’s time to get physical – scientifically, that is. To celebrate National Science Week, Savoy Dance and science communicator Giselle Dreyer have put together a science-themed dance workshop and social. We’ll host a 90 minute masterclass, exploring inertia, tension and momentum in dance, before putting our skills to work on the…
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…
MathsCraft Workshop for Years 5 – 10 Students
How does a mathematician think about and solve problems? What can ‘doing maths’ look like? MATRIX invites Years 5 to 10 students to join us online during National Science Week to come and experience why research mathematicians love maths. You’ll have the opportunity to work on some really interesting and challenging maths problems. Bring your…
Robotics and Programming with One Day Studio
Event involves Turing Tumblers (mechanical computers), robotic arm game and if participants bring their own iPad, an Minecraft hour of code. The workshop will expose younger kids to the change in thinking required to breakdown tasks into sequences which forms the basis of all coding. Workshop lasts for 2 hours and will include afternoon tea. Ideally…
The Crazy Places Data Science Can Take You
Data science is an amazing field that brings together mathematics and >computer science – along with biology, physics, chemistry, policy, finance, climate science, advertising… you name it and data scientists are probably working on it. In this masterclass we welcome data scientists Dr Christopher Baker and Isobel Abell from the School of Mathematics and Statistics,…