The importance of exposing young people to engaging STEAM activities is well recognised, and the Roxby Downs Community Board is confident the Roxby Mad Food Scientist project will inspire participants’ interest in science. Roxby Mad Food Scientist is a free, hands-on event that will be held at the Roxby Downs Community Youth Centre. It will…
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
The STEAM Room: A Science Comedy Experience
Praxical & Stand-Out Comedy will present The STEAM Room, a science, tech, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM) themed comedy night at Sydney’s Giant Dwarf Theatre. The event will highlight leading Australian research through a diverse range of comedians and emerging STEM communicators. Partnering with established comedy room, Stand-Out Comedy, this event will bring together scientists, performers and you…
The Poetry of Science
Would you like to have a bit of fun with the chance to win a prize? Then this is the competition for you! Express a scientific idea/concept through poetry and fill out the form below to enter The Poetry of Science: a science-themed poetry writing competition open to all people in Tasmania for National Science…
STEM Eggstravaganza
Our Eggsrtavaganza will begin in National Science Week and involve our birth – 5 group (Little Wallabies) up to Year 11. We will explore books about chick hatching, make our own simple information books and monitor the journey from egg to chick. We will put on a show of The Little Red Hen and build…
Upstart Express – An explosive national science, innovation and technology challenge for Australia’s young people!
Ignite students’ passion for STEAM, design thinking and building a better world through this fun, fast-paced entrepreneurial journey. The Upstart Express is an explosive science, innovation and technology challenge for students throughout Australia. Students will: Gain skills in creative & critical thinking, teamwork, collaboration, communication. Discover inspiring STEAM careers and journeys. Investigate global/local challenges Explore…
Something From Nothing
Learn how to grow produce from food scraps. This two hour free workshop includes all you need to start growing something from nothing. Presented by horticulturalist and environmentalist, Donna Higgins & expert gardener, Janet Lee. Wednesday 18th August 10am-12pm, at the Hopetoun Community Centre. Bookings essential.
Port Dalrymple School Science Week Activities
Across National Science Week, Port Dalrymple School will be holding multiple activities for students. These will include specialist Science teacher incursions for classes in Years 1-2, a STEAM challenge for students in Years 5-6, as well as multiple rocket launch events to showcase the work of our secondary students.
Kirwan State School Science Fair
Come along and share in the wonder of science as Year 6 students present personal projects they have been working on. These projects have been designed to showcase a scientific principle or test a personal hypothesis. With practical demonstrations and a showcase of STEM projects across the school, it is a great way to see…
Brookton Primary Science Fair
Students will work on a science project, following the scientific method, in an area of interest. The students create a display, including a poster. The projects will be displayed in the school library during National Science Week. Prize winners for each category will be announced at the end of Science Week. Visitors to the school…
Nature is a Fowl Play(ground)
Yongergnow-Ongerup Community Resource Centre has organised a day of science talks, wildlife encounters and activities about adaptation and transformation. Yongergnow Malleefowl Centre’s Zoologist, Miss Stevi Filipowski, and Mr. Kyle Townsend, environmental scientist from NSPNR (North Stirlings Pallinup Natural Resources) will be our guest speakers. They will focus on wildlife interaction and adaptation to the environment,…