Biodiversity is a natural capital asset with immense economic significance for Western Australia. A great deal of information on the state’s biodiversity has been collected and interpreted by research agencies and industry. However, the existing knowledge base is fragmented and difficult to access. The Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI) works with industry, regulators, researchers…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
7 Decades in 7 Days – Celebrating Strong Women in Science
As part of 7 Decades in 7 Days during National Science Week, we’ve teamed up with the Garvan Institute, to bring you an online seminar, celebrating pioneering scientists in cancer research. Join us online as we celebrate all the strong and inspirational women, who have dedicated their lives to medical research. Recognising some of our great female trailblazers…
Future Scientist Career Quiz
Scientists are humanity’s frontline. Wherever answers are needed they lead the charge – overcoming complex global challenges, solving real-world problems and developing solutions for the future. Incredibly, science is predicted to bring more human progress in the next 50 years than the previous 400 combined. Fighting climate change… saving lives… sustaining the environment… ending hunger……
Science Warriors
Cloverdale Education Support Centre will have a vast range of activities organised in rotations the entire day as follows: VR reality exploring chemical states of matter, human anatomy, Earth and space and physical properties of materials including videos of push and pull related videos. Makey Makey to explore electricity by playing a piano using different…
ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon
Ready, steady, hack: ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon is back – and you’re invited! Bring innovation to your classroom with this free, fast-paced, virtual hackathon for Australian students in Years 7-11 on an important topic. Because it’s the United Nations’ International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, the National Science Week theme Food: Different by Design…
Different by Design: Dehydrating Food
Our National Science Week activity for preschool children will begin with an age appropriate roleplay about going on a bushwalk, posing the question ‘Who is going to carry the food?’. Children will do a sensory evaluation of the fruit looking at how heavy it would be to carry and discussing whether it would stay fresh…
Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
Passionate. Brilliant. Defiant. Tonight, 18th century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart? In this highly theatrical rediscovery of one of history’s most intriguing women, Emilie defends her life and loves; and ends up with both a formula and a…
Diversity in STEMM gallery
That’s What I Call Science is a national award-winning radio show and podcast that celebrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) in Tasmania. For National Science Week, the all-women team is creating an online gallery that showcases and celebrates underrepresented people working in STEMM in our island state. The immersive gallery will use light…
National Science Week @ Bentleigh SC
Bentleigh Secondary College will be running a week of science activities, both with our own students, and with our local primary schools, all aimed at increasing students interest in Science and celebrating this year’s theme. We will be running a range of activities across the days, including: Cabbage Chemistry Did you know that you can…
Henbury School Science Fair
Henbury School Science Fair is a hands-on science day for students and our wider community. The event will be held at Henbury School on Thursday 19 August. Most of our activities are based around the National Science Week school theme Food: Different by Design. This year’s activities include: Fruit Ripeness/Farm Product tracker – Anna Day…