The Science and Engineering Challenge is a day-long competition designed to provide Year 10 or Year 9 students with a positive experience of science and engineering. A maximum of 8 schools per day compete against each other at one venue. Each school ‘team’ is divided into eight groups of between 2 to 4 students per…
Topic: Mining and Industry
Immersive Earth: Enter the Curnamona Cube
For National Science Week, a small team of AuScope creatives and University of Adelaide geoscientists invite you to peep deep into the Australian continent to help unravel an untold geological story. Join this imaginative arts-science team via a self-guided, immersive and multimedia-rich digital experience, and share any questions that pop up along the way, either…
Indigenous Practices Meet Sustainable Fishing
Register to receive this exciting new video lesson and discover the science behind what makes the Lakes and Coorong fishery sustainable to a world-leading standard and how indigenous fishing practices continue today and are being safeguarded for the future. You’ll hear from Elders past, present and emerging as we pay our respects to Ngarrindjeri land…
Glass: The Science Fair
To celebrate National Science Week, a lunchtime science fair will be held in the Hannans Primary School library. The science fair’s focus will be the entries of students from Years 1 – 6. Students from Year 1 to 2 will create a science poster around a topic or theme of their choice. Students from Years…
Glass from Nature
The Gardens presents an exhibition and display of natural forms of glass, curated by lapidarist and Gardens volunteer, Gillian Stewart. Although most people think of glass as being an artificially made material, it is also found the natural world. Meteorite impacts melt silica in Earth’s crust that rains down as glassy pebbles called tektites. Lava,…
Launch of National Science Week 2022 – Celebrating First Nations Sciences of the Land
National Science Week is Australia’s annual national celebration of science and technology. It’s a chance for all Australians to meet our scientists, do science, and celebrate its crucial role in Australia’s society and economy. Each year, a vast array of events run across the nation to give more Australians the chance to get involved in…
Glass Houses: Turning glass into concretre
Professor Tim McCarthy, Director of the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, is passionate about Sustainable Engineering and Engineering Education. Tim will share how his research and practice expands the sustainable future of construction by finding ways to use waste glass as a productive ingredient in building materials such as lightweight concrete.
Careers Explorer
Careers Explorer is a discovery session designed to unearth the surprising range of roles available in large infrastructure projects and how these align with individual students’ skills and passions. We’re certain we’ll surprise your students with the breadth of careers available. In this workshop students will: learn all about our Metro Tunnel Project, why we’re…
Science Quiz
Get your team together or sign up as an individual and join us for a fun science themed quiz.
Science is Child’s Play – Community Science Night at Hawthorndene Kindergarten
Hawthorndene Kindergarten hosts Science is Child’s Play – Community Science Night, on Friday 26 August. The official opening will be at 6:30pm for the local community and beyond, with closing at 8:30pm. We believe that supporting children to engage with science at a young age, fosters their interest and questions about how to improve their…