Young Tassie Scientists are early career researchers who are keen to share their work through interactive talks and hands-on activities in Tasmanian schools during National Science Week. The Young Tassie Scientists on this school visit are: Laura De Paoli – Blood, Brains and Biomarkers (neuroscientist) Madeleine Taylor – Working with Miniscule Magnets (chemist) John McManus…
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NSW Rocketry Association Talk and Exhibition
Blast off in National Science Week with an exciting talk and exhibition on rockets with the NSW Rocketry Association. Join us for a talk with members from the NSW Rocketry Association, including George from YouTube’s Air Command Rockets, learn about this amazing hobby and how you too can get involved. Take the opportunity to browse and learn…
Soil Fundamentals for Gardeners
What is soil? What makes good soil good? Would you like to learn how to build healthy soil for growing delicious and nutritious food? Join Angelo Eliades in this supercharged but simple hands-on workshop to answer these questions and many more to understand your garden soil and take the easy steps to improve it whatever…
Kyabram STEM in Community Days
Activities will be stationed around the room for children to freely participate in areas that are of interest to them. Activities will include: Lego building Chemical reactions and experiments Astronomy from Australia’s First Peoples (emu in the sky) Wild Weather – create a tornado in a jar Volcanos How First Nations People predict the weather…
Glass and Sound Workshop
SciTEAM is coming to Mandurah Library for National Science Week. Join Dr Claire Pannell for this special workshop which includes demonstrations and activities in finding out how glass can shape sound. Experiment with different amounts of water and different sized and shaped glass containers to find out how it affects sound. Make your own glass…
What’s the Scoop with Poop at Taronga Zoo?
Join Dr Emma Thompson and Dr Lauren Cole from Taronga Zoo’s University Education team for a look down the microscope at poop and parasites. One important measure of wildlife health is often what is left behind – SCAT. There’s no need to block your nostrils for this virtual deep dive into the fascinating world of…
Looking for Land Snails on an Island with Taronga Zoo
This is more than your garden variety of snails. Dr Monique van Sluys, Wildlife Conservation Officer at Taronga Zoo, explains all things gastropod in this fascinating on demand webinar. Explore the diversity and importance of land snails, from glass snails to those mimicking a bundle of twigs, and learn about why we need snails around…
Shock-proof Staples: building system resilience for cereal crops
The Ukraine-Russia war has catalysed and highlighted significant instability in global wheat supply, raising prices and threatening food and nutrition security, particularly for vulnerable populations. In addition, real-time climate change effects are increasing in frequency and magnitude. These act as amplifiers of the current food security crisis, and also add to future risks for the…
The Science of Psychology
What does a psychologist do? Your first response to this question might be to think about a person sitting in a chair providing therapy to a client. But did you know that psychology researchers tackle a wide variety of questions including: How to effectively communicate with people about climate change and encourage people to change behaviours? How…
MATRIX Online Public Lecture – Dr Marcy Robertson
Mathematical oranges and deep space communication. Imagine you were trying to pack a crate full of oranges. How should you arrange the oranges in order to maximize the number of oranges you can pack into your crate? This is one example of what mathematicians call a sphere packing problem: how to arrange spheres (or polyhedra)…