This course teaches you, our scientists, technologists and engineers the essential skills and strategies to write articles for leading science journals such as the British journal Nature and the US journal Science. This comprehensive course/webinar will cover fundamental principles and “rules of the journal-writing game”, equipping participants with the confidence and savvy required to write…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Writing Top Scientific Reports
Engineers, technologists and IT experts are not always the best report-writers. Or are they? Learn the tricks of the trade in a comprehensive three-hour course designed to improve the writing and communication skills of those needing to file important reports. Session 1 9.30am to 11am, AEST Rationale: Why it’s worth writing excellent and easy-to-read reports…
Science Writing Course – Gold Coast
This course, presented by a seasoned science writer and broadcaster, teaches you the essential skills and strategies needed to convey the fruits of scientific research to the media, government, research-funding bodies and the public. This comprehensive course will cover fundamental principles and the “rules of the science-writing game”, equipping researchers and managers with the confidence…
Science Writing Workshop – Cairns
This course teaches you the essential skills and strategies to communicate the fruits of scientific research clearly and effectively to the media, government, research-funding bodies and the public. This comprehensive course covers fundamental principles and the “rules of the science-writing game”, equipping researchers and managers with the confidence and media savvy to communicate your messages…
National Science Week Innovation Challenge at QUT
Join the QUT challenge to develop a solution to a real-world problem inspired by the National Science Week school theme: Seeds of Science: Nurturing Knowledge for All. The QUT Faculty of Science is hosting a friendly one‑day innovation challenge for high school students in Years 9 and 10. Working in teams alongside QUT students and…
Edison Space Code Quest – The Think Tank
Head to the Moon with Edison Robots! Join us at the Dandenong Library to learn about space research and exploration while using coding. Program the robots to complete challenges in small groups, take parts to a lunar rover and detect precious minerals. Children will learn about digital systems, and follow and represent basic algorithms involving…
Edison Space Code Quest – The Think Tank
Head to the Moon with Edison Robots! Join us at the Dandenong Library to learn about space research and exploration while using coding. Program the robots to complete challenges in small groups, take parts to a lunar rover and detect precious minerals. Children will learn about digital systems, and follow and represent basic algorithms involving…
Ozobots at Ascot Vale Library
Interested in basic coding? Join us at Ascot Vale Library to learn and play with Ozobots. Ozobots are tiny, smart robots designed to teach coding skills. Using sensors, they read colour codes (Ozocodes) drawn on paper or block-based code via OzoBlockly to follow lines, change speed, and move in specific ways, bridging the physical and…
Inclusive Biographies in STEMM Project – A (mini) Wiki-hackathon
In a world of AI summaries and digital hype cycles, one website stands out as a bastion of well sourced knowledge and easily navigated tables of content: Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn’t perfect though. Just like our other knowledge systems, Wikipedia has historically struggled to represent the lives and accomplishments of the countless scientists with marginalised…
Pedal Powered Cinema
Come and join our Pedal Powered Cinema, where you can help us pedal bikes to power the movie projector. We will show movies for children from 4:30pm, then at 6pm join us for pedal powered smoothies and pizza. At 7pm we will show The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, about a boy in Malawi who…