The WA Health Hackathon Week will bring together a diverse group of data professionals, digital specialists & students to explore innovative digital and data-driven solutions to real world healthcare challenges. There are some fantastic prizes to be won, including AWS sponsorship and a one-on-one med-tech workshop with Perth BioDesign directors. What will the week involve?…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Food: Different by Design at St Johns Preston
Food is an important part of our daily life. As the population grows to 10 billion people by 2050, how will we feed them with sustainable and healthy food? These activities put students in the role of scientists to investigate these issues. in this activity teachers and students will run a number of experiments that…
Rocket Powered Race Cars with ANU Rocketry
The Challenge is running from 14 – 28 August. There are three different age categories: Year 1 and under Years 2 – 4 Years 5 – 6 Sign-ups are open now. Please note: The challenge should be done individually, but family members or guardians can help with completing the challenge.
Glow in the dark: Using fluorescence to observe DNA in a living cell
Using fluorescence to see DNA in real-time. Dr Elizabeth Hinde will show how physics allows us to uncover in real-time the spatial reorganisation of the DNA network that seems to be serving as an epigenetic layer of control for gene expression. This event is part of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Science’s Science Festival….
Bungendore Public School Science Day
There will be a variety of activities going on across the whole school for National Science Week: teachers talk to classes and introduce science week theme. Year 6’s pick up Kindy’s and take them to their peer support classes. Year 6 students leading a making ice cream experiment. Two bags of ice cream will be…
Food, Different by Design Expo
Our School will be hosting a variety of demonstrations that will cater for our students from Prep through to Year 6. The events will be set up in different locations around the school both indoor and outdoor and they will be Year Level appropriate. The day will be run to a timetable with seven time…
Bundaberg State High School STEM and Science Facility Grand Opening
With the hand over of our brand new 3 storey building just around the corner, Bundaberg State High School will host students and staff from local feeder primary schools and community partners for the grand opening of our new facility. As part of our National Science Week celebrations, guests will be invited for a tour…
Genetically Modified Foods – DNA by Design
Contemporary practices in agriculture and farming are changing quickly in order to produce food in a sustainable way whilst meeting the demands of the growing population and changing climate. One of the solution ideas involves genetically modified food production, that is enhancing the viability of crops in broader regions. We will use a miniPCR machine…
Arthur Rylah Institute Seminar: Frog calls and ecological models
For National Science Week, we’ll be sharing some of the latest research from the Arthur Rylah Institute’s brightest data enthusiasts, Dr Peter Griffioen & Dr Jian Yen. We know it’s hard to get you excited about data, but when you hear about the ways they’re using them… prepare yourself to be wow-ed. Peter will be…
Creativity Through Curiosity
We would like to empower our students to work on shared construction of large and small scale engineering creations including rigid structures, tiling patterns, maths principles such as shape and problem solving using planks and tiles to engineer these structures. This project will allow students to participate at their own level of cognitive and physical…