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Rocket Town on tour
Emily Steel’s award-winning play explores the lives of two teenagers and their relationships with the unusual and remote town of Woomera. What does it mean to be young in the middle of ...
SA event seed grants: apply now!
Thinking of holding an event in National Science Week in South Australia? Through the financial support of the Government of South Australia (via DFEEST), there are a number of small grants ...
ACT event seed grants: apply now!
Ten seed grants of $2000 each are available to kick start innovative National Science Week events in the ACT. Preference will be given to events that fall within National Science Week, 11 - 19 ...
Taking Science to the Streets
Students from Gresford Public School and Dungog High School in the Hunter Valley will set up ‘shop fronts’ in the main street of Dungog demonstrating a wide range of experiments and techniques to ...
School Grant winners
Congratulations to all of the schools in each state and territory who have received school grants for great activities within their schools during National Science Week. Australian Capital ...
Sound Check Australia
The National Noise and Hearing Test How’s your hearing? How much noise have you been exposed to? Researchers from the National Acoustic Laboratories want to find out how much time Australians ...
The Sun – Powering Our Planet
Have you ever thought about: the importance of the Sun in our everyday lives? whether you should invest in solar panels – could they reduce years off your mortgage? energy savings? Find out the ...
WIPEOUT! a scientific musical
In the year 2050 life across the planet has changed. On the Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest stars and scientists have gathered for one massive fundraising concert WIPEOUT! to bring about ...
School Grants now closed
Thanks to everyone who applied for a National Science Week 2012 School Grant - there were over 450 applications! The selection committee is busy going through them and ASTA anticipate announcing ...
COLLISION – It’s subARTomic!
Are you astounded by supersymmetry? Excited by the Higgs boson? Think neutrinos are supremo? Express Media, COSMOS magazine, Blue Vapours and CoEPP (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at ...