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Grants now available for regional NSW
NSW Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner has announced funding of $70 000 for the NSW Regional Science Grants program, increasing support to regional communities wishing to celebrate science through ...
ACT seed grant recipients for National Science Week 2014
The ACT National Science Week Coordinating Committee is pleased to announce the following individuals and organisations have been successful in securing seed grants to stage events in and around ...
ABC Science’s National Science Week Citizen Science Project 2014
Call for proposals from research scientists. Could you do with an extra research assistant? How about 10 000 citizen scientists?! We’re looking for a great new idea for the 2014 National Science ...
ACT seed grants now available
Do you have a brilliant idea and want to run an event in your community that promotes science? The ACT National Science Week Coordinating Committee is offering seed grants of between $500 – $2000 ...
Science Poetry Competition; the winning poem
Here is Meredi Ortega's winning poem in the Australian Poetry Science Poetry Competition. The poem imagines the liner notes that might accompany the golden phonograph records attached to Voyagers ...
National Science Week 2014 Grants
The grant round for National Science Week 2014 is about to open. The round has a total value of $500 000. There are already two grants of $10 000 each (they are 3-year grants from 2012) so there ...
Explore the Seafloor at school
We recently received this wonderful feedback from a teacher about how her Yr 3/4 class had engaged with citizen science and Explore the Seafloor. What a fabulous project this is! I've been ...
2013 Brain Break Tasmania Photo Competition Winner
This year, Tasmania had over 30 Brain Break morning teas registered across the state. We offered a $100 ABC Shop voucher to the morning tea that best exhibited what a Brain Break hopes to ...
Explore the Seafloor almost over
More than 225 000 seafloor photos have been studied by citizen scientists so far. There are now less than 4 days to go! Citizen scientists have until midday this Monday 2 September to study more ...
Schools event survey (and prizes)
We'd really like to get a snapshot of what Australian schools did to celebrate National Science Week this year. If your school organised or participated in any activities or events during ...