Bring your lunch and join the Victorian Hydrogen Hub during National Science Week for an hour of engaging learning – snacks included. Hydrogen is a promising solution to tackle climate change and it will also create new and exciting jobs across a range of sectors. But what is hydrogen? How is it applied in daily…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Larapinta Glass Explorers
Larapinta PS will have a selection of different activities for students to explore predominately with exploring glass but also light properties. The whole school will be involved and mixed groups means students will have the opportunity to work with student’s they don’t always work with.
Fungi Film and Q&A
A documentary screening of The Kingdom-How Fungi Made Our World will be shown followed by a Q&A session of mushroom experts to answer your questions. Some delicious mushroom food and beverages will be available too.
INVISIBILITY Exhibition at MOD.
INVISIBILITY is everywhere. It’s the people we don’t notice, the environmental changes we can’t see, and the algorithms working hard behind the scenes. What becomes visible when we start paying attention? In MOD.’s 2022 exhibition, we’re shining a spotlight on the unseen to help us better understand the world around us and our place in…
The Leadership – Documentary screening and panel discussion
As part of National Science Week, the Australian National University is offering a free screening of The Leadership. This spectacular documentary, which reflects on leadership in science and the systemic obstacles to women’s advancement in science and beyond. The film follows 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them “into the sort…
ANU Cybernetics: The library and AI
The library – as an idea, a place, and a cybernetic system – has always been an investment in, and a vision about, the future. Recently the National Library of Australia and the ANU School of Cybernetics conducted a thought experiment: If library indexing has informed the structure of search on the internet, how might…
Science Week at Blackburn High School
During our pastoral care program we are running activities for the whole school that are science themed. The sessions will include building telescopes, doing a science quiz, linking the Indigenous use of glass and history of glass. We also have a guest performance doing a show about glass and the science behind it for the…
The Matilda Effect – The History of Forgotten Women Scientists
From the COVID vaccine to nuclear fission to pulsars to computer programming, women are at the source of many scientific discoveries, inventions and innovations that shape our lives. But in the stories we’ve come to accept about these breakthroughs, women are too often left out. In this talk we’ll learn about the women behind some…
Live from the Lab: Gig
Join us on Thursday 18 August for our special Live from the Lab (LFTL): Gig hosted by Associate Professor Alice Motion and featuring the artists involved in LFTL 2022. This will be the first time these science research inspired tracks are performed live, along with additional hits from each artist’s catalogue. Celebrate National Science Week…
Intersections between Science and Art – Engaging communities
Explore how brain health changes through life, the emerging problem of eco-anxiety, and how our wellbeing is inextricably linked to our environmental footprint through two National Science Week events, ‘Brain’ and ‘Biomes’. These interactive art science exhibitions showcase innovative collaborations with artists, technologists, industry and community, creating a genuine and continuing exchange of information with…