Been to the stars? Join secondary school science teacher Geoff McNamara AM from inside the MSATT telescope at Mt Stromlo observatory in Canberra when he talks with Dr Jane Hunter from the STEM Education Futures Research Centre at UTS. We’ll chat about binary star orbits, dark matter and understanding why science education is critical in the lives…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Sustainability pioneer & Mars explorer: Ask Me Anything (LIVE)
Between Monday 17 and Friday 21 August, sustainability expert, Mars One astronaut candidate and biohacker Dianne McGrath is hosting ‘Ask Me Anything’ sessions on Instagram Stories LIVE. Submit questions on Dianne’s Instagram page. Topics already requested include: biohacking sleep and recovery, and Mars One: status, what it means for Dianne today, and what next? Visit…
Tech Girls STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop
The team from the Tech Girls Movement Foundation will work with students to identify issues that are important to them. Through various activities, we help students determine how technology (an app) can be used to help solve their important issue. Students learn skills for developing an app and pitching their idea. There will be two…
Shifting Perspectives Premiere
Shifting Perspectives is a short dance film inspired by a recently published conversation between two leaders in the field of synthetic biology (Sarah Richardson and Tom Knight) and their divergent approaches to working with microbial life. Shifting Perspectives seeks to open a multivocal interdisciplinary dialogue across screendance, movement and synthetic biology. The film was developed…
The Data Lab: Exploring the future of AI
Join us in the data lab* as we shine a light on the future of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAHMRI’s Dr Jimmy Breen, bioinformatician extraordinaire, will be your virtual host as we look at what our data says about us and the power it has to change our health. We are what…
Jervis Bay Bites
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum will provide you with bite-sized insights into innovative future food production in the waters of Jervis Bay. There will be a short presentation by two speakers who discuss the production of future food in the bay. The speakers will include: a representative from South Coast Mariculture outlining mussel farming in Jervis…
MalignancyVR: A cancer-themed virtual reality game
MalignancyVR is an immersive Virtual Reality game exploring modern cancer treatments. Designed by cancer researchers, Dr Ken Dutton-Regester (Excite Science) and Dr Elke Hacker (QUT), we’re using VR as a platform to teach people about cancer. In its current form, MalignancyVR is a demo game that transports players into the lung. When a metastatic skin…
Cinema Under the Stars
Bring your picnic blanket and a thermos (temperatures might go below 20°C) and enjoy a series of short films that have been created especially for National Science Week in the NT and will be screened by the Darwin-based Solar Cinema. Learn about the science and technology behind sports, drumming and beer, and discover fascinating facts…
Young Scientist Paper Planes Challenge
Engage your students in the 2020 Paper Plane Challenge during National Science Week. Stretch their technological imagination and explore material and physical world concepts in this fun interactive activity. Some Ground Rules before Take Off Paper planes must be made in front of a supervising adult witness using regular A4 or Quarto paper (80GSM or 90GSM)….
Around YOUR World in Eight Days | A STEAMpunk Exploration
Imagine a mini version of Jules Verne’s “Around the world in eighty days”. You have eight days to explore the world around you. Don’t worry about time or space. Verne’s novels are often called the earliest versions of STEAMpunk literature. They imagine different pasts and futures than the ones we have experienced. They contain a spirit…