Finding the STEM Among the Stems

In Finding the STEM Among the Stems, year 5 and 6 students at Lansdowne Crescent Primary School will be guided through an award-winning landscape architecture project on the grounds of their school. Good design by its nature, goes unnoticed. In an event led by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, students will be guided through…

Making a Measurement

Visit the Making a Measurement exhibition this National Science Week to meet Sid, The Scientist, who is undertaking an artist’s residency in the Yalagang room at the Bondi Pavillion. Having been a working scientist, Sid is curious about what it means to measure; why we measure and the things we measure with. The exhibition space…

Young Tassie Scientists at HIVE Science Centre

The Young Tassie Scientists are University of Tasmania graduates.  During National Science Week they share their work at schools through engaging talks and cool activities At HIVE family day you can meet: Alex Paton  (She/Her)  Zoology & Invasive Species    Heath Dimsey (He/Him)  Mathematical Chemistry   Jasmine Peterson (She/Her)  Graphs, maths and data  Sophie Young (She/Her) …

Young Tassie Scientists at the Festival of Bright Ideas

The Young Tassie Scientists are University of Tasmania graduates.  During National Science Week they share their work at schools through engaging talks and cool activities At the YTS table at the Festival of Bright Ideas, you might meet:  Bharath  Dinakaran (He/Him)  Alternate Pollinators  Elise Cleary (She/Her)  Behavioural Neuroscience & Decision Making  Jonty Dehnert, Conservation Ecology …

Royal Queensland Show, Ekka

National Science Week at the Ekka! Ekka’s Learning Trail Join Ekka’s agronomist Rhondda and her Farmyard Friends on the Ekka’s Learning Trail. This is a self-guided tour showcasing agricultural education learning experiences with a specific focus on AgTech and the science behind food and fibres. The Learning Trail Passport and Teacher’s Guide make the connection…

Community STEM Extravaganza

National Science Week at Boonah State High School culminates in a STEM Extravaganza after school event and the whole community is invited. We’ll have STEM activity stations and onstage demonstrations led by our Boonah State High School student STEM ambassadors. Former Boonah State High School students either studying or working in STEM will return to…

What is Dark Matter? An evening with physicist Dr Elisabetta Barberio

Celebrate National Science Week with Merri-Bek Libraries! Have you ever wondered what dark matter is but were too afraid to ask? Come along to meet Dr Elisabetta Barberio, the ‘dark matter detective.’ Dr Barberio is a physicist at Melbourne University and the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. She…

Junior Tech Lab at Broadmeadows Library

Calling all junior tech-lovers! This National Science Week, join us in our Junior Tech Lab. Come along and explore coding, robotics, and problem solving with us. We will be using Osmo, Ozobots, Spheros and more in this after-school workshop. It will be a fun introduction to the different educational technology our library offers. Junior Tech…

The Sound of Symmetry

This combined lecture and performance introduces you to mathematical concepts of symmetry and how they can be expressed artistically in music. Mathematician Artem Pulemotov will explain principles for different types of symmetry that are central to modern mathematics and physics. Musicologist Denis Collins will explain how symmetry can be represented in musical sound. Although simple…

New York Actress Does Lake Tuggeranong College

Heather Massie takes her one-woman show on Hollywood beauty and inventor Hedy Lamarr to Lake Tuggeranong College in Canberra. Hedy was dubbed the most beautiful woman Hollywood in the 1930s-1940s – but she had a secret. Hedy invented things in her spare time in Hollywood and developed technology for torpedoes during WWII. The same technology…