To celebrate National Science Week, a lunchtime science fair will be held in the Treendale Primary School library. The fair’s focus will be the entries of students from Years 1 – 6: Students from Year 1 to 2 will create a science poster around a topic or theme of their choice. Students from Years 3…
Topic: Space and Astronomy
STEAM Showcase
A collection of STEAM activities for all age groups. See 3D printing in action, build your own wooden models, play Sphero soccer, CO2 dragsters racing, make slime and use microscopes. There are also some machine based learning activities participants can have a go at. Art pieces will be created and uploaded to a virtual art…
Davidson High School Science Fair
This will be our first science fair with the aim of hosting the same event each year. This event presents a chance for our students to showcase and celebrate the excellent Science work students have done this year. Students from year 7 to Year 10 present their depth study, models and innovations for judging by…
The Great Escape
The Great Escape is an escape room designed around each of the four science topics taught in our senior secondary school (Year 11-12) and run for 1 week, with 1 hour time slots to escape our STEaM room. In keeping with the theme of innovation, student participants need to solve the puzzles within 40 minutes…
Understanding the Importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dreaming Narratives and Links to Astronomy
Join us as we celebrate National Science Week with an incredible opportunity to delve into the profound scientific knowledge embedded within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dreaming narratives. In this live webinar, we are privileged to have Duane Hamacher, the author of The First Astronomers and Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy, as our guest speaker….
Beaker Street Festival Headline Program – Time travel in space
Join Dr Martin George on a journey to the oldest stars and galaxies, when our universe was young and the first sources of light were forming. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever, but how does it work and why is it capable of showing us beautifully sharp images from an…
Young Rocketeers Workshop
This workshop, delivered at the Carnarvon Space Museum, will teach the basic principles of rockets (Newton’s Third Law) utilising balloons and strings for guidance. Teaching simple rocket science will also allow for a demonstration of the scientific method. This workshop will culminate in a challenge in which participants will design a rocket that can deliver…
From Antarctica to Space via Bologna, Italy: a public lecture by Dr Meganne Christian
UNSW Sydney alumna, Dr Meganne Christian, who currently works at the Italian National Research Agency, was selected as part of the European Space Agency’s 2022 astronaut class. Dr Christian is a materials scientist and atmospheric physicist. She is one of 11 reservist astronauts selected, alongside five career astronauts from more than 22,500 eligible applicants. She…
The Anti-conference: Innovation, Inspiration, Intelligence
Inspiring WA and The WA Coordinating Committee for National Science are delighted to present The Anti-conference this National Science Week. This isn’t your typical conference! Grab your friends and bring your best science facts to our first session, Intelligence. We’re talking one big boozy science quiz at Perth Mess Hall. On Saturday we’re heading to…
South West Science Fair
Join us at South West Science Fair 2023, a free family friendly event filled with science themed mysteries. Solve a robbery, make some slime or visit the forensics lab, either way you are bound to discover or learn something new. South West Science Fair brings multiple exhibitors from around WA come together at Bunbury Library…