The schools grant round for National Science Week 2014 is now open. Grants of up to $500 are available for schools to conduct a special science event in their school. These can be based on any science related topic or subject. Alternatively, grants of up to $700 are available for events based on the National…
Category: Science Week News
The “From Research to Reality” TV series
Queensland’s science and innovation sector is at the forefront of discovery. From developing a digital system that allows police investigators in the field and scientists in the police lab to share evidence as it comes to hand (just like in the movies) to QUT researchers implementing new surgical techniques. Yet few people know about these great…
National Science Week Seed Grants in Queensland
The Queensland National Science Week Co-ordinating Committee will award several grants of up to $2500 to develop and deliver new events, activities or programs for National Science Week. Eligibility The event must be held in National Science Week (16-24 August). Events that demonstrate a capacity to be repeated without financial support in future years are…
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 public programs and events. The program aims to sustain and extend the Network of NSW Regional Science Hubs, dynamic partnerships between community organisations and scientists who work together…
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 Canberra during National Science Week 2014. 2XX (98.3FM): Future Cop Alzheimer’s Australia: Towards a World without Dementia – Prevention, Cure or Care? Australian Society for Parasitology…
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 Week citizen science project. Harnessing the power of citizen science can provide practical and verifiable assistance, quickly doing the jobs that would have taken…
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 (incl. GST) to support science engagement events, programs and activities conducted between 1 July and 31 October 2014. There is a…
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 1 and 2 as they leave the Solar System and begin their travels into interstellar space. As Carl Sagan, one of the contributors to the Voyager project…
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 is a total of $480 000 still available. Grants may be awarded between $2000 and $25 000….
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 putting together an Oceanography science unit for my 3-4 primary class and in the process of researching for it came across this project just…