This annual event enters its second year to celebrate National Science Week and showcase outstanding science and research being conducted by female STEMM staff at Murdoch University. In 2020 we shine the spotlight on the Engineering and IT discipline areas which consistently show the greatest underrepresentation of women in higher education and private sectors. Dr…
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Making Scents with Artist Yasmin Smith
Parramatta Artists’ Studios presents this special National Science Week event. Parramatta Creative Fellow and PAS Rydalmere Studio Artist Yasmin Smith takes us on a visual journey through collecting and distilling the Lilly Pilly plant. Yasmin will walk us through how to distil scents ourselves, while connecting these processes with her practice as a local ceramic…
Ornithologist Julie Ryeland chats with artist Tully Arnot
For National Science Week, Parramatta Artists’ Studios will release a special podcast in their Studio Conversations series. This podcast will feature Parramatta Artists’ Studios artist Tully Arnot and Western Sydney Unversity Ecologist, Biologist and Ornithologist Julia Ryeland in a conversation about shared interest in local bird life. Photo shows artist Tully Arnot from Parramatta Artists’…
Rosetta Tomorrow
Until the discovery of the Rosetta stone, many details of Egyptian life were hidden to modern eyes. Even though we had thousands of artifacts with hieroglyphics on them, the language was so lost to history that none of it could be understood. Carved around 196 BCE, this stone gave the world a glimpse of what…
Seal Spotter Citizen Science Challenge – Phillip Island Nature Parks
Introducing Seal Spotter – Return to the Rocks Phillip Island Nature Parks is launching a mini citizen science challenge in line with National Science Week, kicking off Monday 17 August and running for two weeks, ending on Monday 31 August. SealSpotter allows anyone with a computer to help with the management and protection of our…
Immersive Science IV (SciVR): Science Champions (Burnie families)
NOTE: This event involves participation at home with a smartphone and another device that can connect to the internet. SciVR will take you on the hunt for things that go boom. We’ll explore the universe and origins of explosions in space, tracking events as they happen with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen. You get stickers and…
Immersive Science IV (SciVR): Science Champions (Henty families)
NOTE: This event involves participation at home with a smartphone and another device that can connect to the internet. SciVR will take you on the hunt for things that go boom. We’ll explore the universe and origins of explosions in space, tracking events as they happen with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen. You get stickers and…
Immersive Science IV (SciVR): Science Champions (Crookwell families)
NOTE: This event involves participation at home with a smartphone and another device that can connect to the internet. SciVR will take you on the hunt for things that go boom. We’ll explore the universe and origins of explosions in space, tracking events as they happen with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen. You get stickers…
Display of Science Books and Items From Hobart library
Come and borrow from the wonderful display of science-related items. Pick up a free booklet to see what’s happening during National Science Week. #LibrariesTas #HobartLibrary
Hope Vale interactive Periodic Table display unveiling
The Hope Vale Periodic Table display supports the Science program Years 4-6 Chemistry Unit that is part of the Class domain of the 6C Education Model developed by Good to Great Schools Australia. The cabinet is a replica of the periodic table standing 2.4 metres long, 1.7 metres high with each element represented by a…