A celebration of insect proteins and other innovations in food. Our popular, student run cafe will feature crickets, mealworms and products made from insect flours, supported by information collated by science students. During our regular pastoral care time, all students will have the opportunity to participate in National Science Week activities based around the theme…
Topic: Agriculture
Science Week @ Bundaberg Christian College
Everyday throughout National Science Week the Science Ambassadors will be putting on different experiments relating to food with a focus on a specific science each day and a Kahoot on Friday for the Middle and Senior School. They will also have an experiment for the Year 6s to prepare them for High School and to…
Experimenta Life Forms
Philosophers have wrestled with defining life for thousands of years. EXPERIMENTA LIFE FORMS reveals how contemporary artists are approaching this perennial question, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down. What new life forms are emerging through technological and biological adaptation and invention?…
Virtual Tour: Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre – Meet Magnus for the last time
Join the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre as we take you on a live tour of the facility – your last opportunity to meet the Magnus Supercomputer, before it is replaced by Setonix, a supercomputer 30x more powerful than its predecessors. The tour will be live streamed on Pawsey’s Facebook page. Invite your friends and family…
Plants for Food Security – the future is green
By the middle of the century there will be almost 10 billion people on Earth – an awful lot of mouths to feed, especially when a warming climate makes agriculture more challenging. Scientists may save the day by helping crop species adapt and thrive as growing conditions change. On behalf of the Australian Society of…
goIT Monthly Challenge – August
Did you know that nearly all Australians aged 2-18, and 9 in 10 adults aged 19 and over do not consume enough vegetables. Many remote and rural communities in Australia don’t have adequate access to fresh foods contributing to food insecurity in those areas. Tata Consultancy Services in partnerships with Food Ladder and Woolworths Australia…
National Science Week at the Cathedral with Tony Rinaudo the Forest Maker
This year’s annual National Science Week at the Cathedral (St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne) will feature the revolutionary work of Australian missionary agronomist Tony Rinaudo. Millions of hectares of Africa have been regenerated through Tony’s work, which now promises to be a significant part of the solution to climate change. Register now online. Contact…
Flora and the Baron
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller – eccentric outsider, global scientific powerhouse and the Botanic Gardens’ first director – has a tale to tell. Banished from his beloved Gardens for the last twenty years of his life in self-imposed exile, he re-enters the Gardens as a ghost, revelling in his scientific legacy and the powerful beauty of…
Bush Foods and Science workshop
First Nations Peoples have used plants as food for thousands of years. In this one-hour interactive workshop participants will learn about: the cultural significance of bush food; Indigenous plant identification and growing conditions; and edible uses of plants. During the workshop you will learn in-depth information about how Indigenous peoples have been using these plants…
Sustainable Food for a Growing Population
Our National Science Week activities will include buddy class science activities for all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 including those from the attached Autism unit. The activities will run for a full day and students will have the opportunity to participate in activities that focus on our growing population. This will involve videos as…