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HERE Mapping Competition – Build an interactive map and win prizes
Digital maps are a useful tool to show the location of things, convey important messages to your audience and share a story with them. HERE Technologies is inviting you to join its mapping competition and build an online interactive map for a chance to win great prizes. Your map can be about anything… it can…
Super STEM Careers Q&A
Are you a high school student who wants to design, build or discover new things? Do you want to solve the challenges of the future? Want to know what a STEM career really looks like, and how to get there? Join us on Wednesday 4-5pm AEST for a FREE live streamed interactive Q&A to get…
Meet the Scientists – Sign Me Up! (Bunbury)
The West Australian Foundation for Deaf Children’s Meet The Scientists – Sign Me up! Auslan interpreted event aims to engage deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 – 12 years and their siblings and peers with science, providing them with exposure to science as a career pathway, building confidence in scientific concepts and inspiring them…
Meet the Scientists – Sign Me Up! (Perth)
The West Australian for Deaf Children’s Meet The Scientists – Sign Me up! Auslan interpreted event aims to engage deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 – 12 years and their siblings and peers with science, providing them with exposure to science as a career pathway, building confidence in scientific concepts and inspiring them through…
13th Canberra Cub Scout Group Science Celebration
The 13th Canberra Cub Scout Group will get the jump on National Science Week and spend the evening solving problems of the science kind.
STEM Alive for Kids
The Peter Underwood Centre is delivering 5 STEM based broadcasts during National Science Week. The broadcasts are tailored to suit children from Years 3 through to 6 however children and adults of all ages will find things of interest in these presentations. Broadcasts will be via Zoom Webinar. As a precaution and ensuring a safe,…
Did you know? Community Talk – Reducing Food Waste
Dr Polly Burey, Senior Lecturer (Food Science) at the University of Southern Queensland, will share her tips and experience on how to get the most out of your household food budget. She has practical ideas on how to create less food waste and also, how to make the most of any food scraps and vegetables…
How to Fix a Pixie: art meets science in hospital
This project focuses on 14 Pixie O’Harris paintings from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s art collection in need of conservation and restoration. Each painting ‘becomes the patient’ and undergoes examination, diagnosis and treatment. The art conservator will demonstrate how to make swabs, remove varnish layers and ‘operate’ to replace paint losses in a simulated environment….
Diego’s Foraging Guide
Learn all about wild edible plants growing in your backyard. In this 15 minute video, foraging expert Diego Bonetto demonstrates how to identify some of the common edible plants that grow in backyards and parks in the local Liverpool area, and explains some of their uses. Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager and wild food…