IGNITE- School Program for Young Women in STEM

Are you interested in solving the problems of tomorrow? Want to know how you can be part of the solution? Engineering and science are for everyone, and engineering and environmental consultancy pitt&sherry invite you to explore STEM beyond school. Experience first hand how your STEM subjects can lead you to a career that helps solve…

Katherine South Primary School Meet the Scientist

Katherine South Primary School host an annual Meet the Scientist Science Expo, where we run different interactive stalls, and host outside organisations including Health Services, Emergency Services, Australian Defence Forces showcasing the science behind their trades, the local library and the Northern Territory School of Music. It is a great afternoon where students and their…

National Science Week at Our Lady of Mercy Primary

National Science Week will excite students and teachers about science focusing on this year’s theme Innovation: Powering Future Industries. The theme will incorporate the advancement in technology in all industries, especially using artificial intelligence (AI).  

Introduction to Aboriginal Plant Use

Adam Shipp is a proud Wiradjuri man whose family is originally from Dubbo in NSW. Adam is passionate about traditional plant use and showcases this passion in his workshops. During the workshop you will learn in-depth information about how Aboriginal people have been using these plants for foods, fibres, and medicines for thousands of years….

EngConnect Your Career – Mechanical Engineering

Have you ever wondered where a STEM career could take you? EngConnect your Career is an Engineers Australia initiated event series for students, graduates and industry professionals looking to transition their STEM career, keen to hear from engineers about where their engineering studies have taken them. This session will feature speakers from Mechanical engineering disciplines…

Where Lakes Once Had Water

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Where Lakes Once Had Water contemplates how the Earth is experienced and understood through different ontologies – ways of being, seeing, sensing, listening and thinking – that reverberate across art, Indigenous thought, science, ancient and modern cultures, the non-human, and in between. In 2018 and 2019 the artists travelled with a…

Magic: More than smoke and mirrors

Join magician and researcher Em Chandler for National Science Week as we peak behind the curtain to explore the secretive world of magic. From the first professional magician in 1722 to the present day, delve into the history of magic, the science behind it, the art around it, and why it’s much more than smoke…

Cross River Rail’s Stages of Construction Activity

There is nothing simple about the construction of an underground train line that travels below and city and under a river. It’s a process of problem solving, and discovery, and is considered to be one of the most complex civil engineering challenges to solve. In this Cross River Rail activity held at the Cross River…

Senior Scientists: Exploring lenses

How do we see the invisible? In this series of events, we use interactive media to explore how lenses allow us to see beyond human visual limitations and how these lenses are employed in daily life, including routine health checks, growing plants, and food production. A team of researchers will give a short talk before…