We’re inviting Green-Hat workshops to come to visit Hillcrest Christian School to run a planks workshop with our Prep to Year 2 students. The students will explore forces, movement, balance, and symmetry as they participate in large-scale creative construction activities. We’re hoping the students will enjoy working in teams, taking risks, and extending their understanding…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
The Young Scientist Research Prizes
To foster and recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists, the Royal Society of Victoria offers four, prestigious, competitive prizes, open to Victorian students in their final year of doctoral candidature, in all areas of the Biomedical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences (non-human), Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences. Following assessment of applications across the four…
Science Week at Trinity Gardens School
A mind-blowing excursion for Reception to Year 6 students to our local glass blowing studio, Eamonn Vereker Glass. Students will observe, question and learn from local artists in action and Eamonn himself. Engaging, curriculum linked scientific experiments demanding problem solving skills, questioning and authentic real world learning for all specialist science classes which will be…
Goodness Festival: Sustainable Living Expo
The Goodness Festival is pleased to partner with Midwest Carbon Zero is coordinating and hosting the inaugural Sustainable Living Expo. A variety of stalls, workshops, panels, guest speakers, and interactive displays will demonstrate to the public the various ways their environmental impact can be reduced. Energy, waste management, transport, food and agriculture, biodiversity and conservation…
Moorak’s More Than Meets the Eye Science Night
Moorak Primary School are holding a Science Night full of interactive and hands-on science tasks that link with the 2022 theme of Glass: more than meets the eye. They will be setting up different stations that all link to the different STEM areas, including: science experiement demonstrations making electrical circuits with an electric pen problem…
Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern
What can Aboriginal astronomy tell us about the night sky? How is our native flora used in bush medicine? How do Indigenous Australians make axes from stone? What can we learn about sustainable living from 60,000+ years of Indigenous culture? Find out the answers to these questions and more at the Indigenous Science Experience. This…
SOUND & VISION: Sci-Art on Ocean & Ice
Don’t miss these free online sci-art experiences to dive, sketch, explore, quiz, and Q&A with our expert presenters pondering the sounds and visions of our oceans. The Sound of Colour Join NASA Oceanographer Ryan Vandermeulen for this one hour presentation with quiz and Q&A. Scientific data analysis is often exclusively visual components, and this is…
Year 4 Science Expo
During science week year four students from our school will be presenting different science experiments to the school. They will be performing the experiment and explaining the science behind it. Each group will present their science to the lower school on one day and then to the rest of the school another day.
Glass – More than Meets the Eye: An Aboriginal Perspective
Christian Aboriginal Parent-Direct School (CAPS) Coolgardie will look at the history of glass and how it has influenced advancements in technology and some of its industrial applications today. We will explore how it may be utilized in future technologies. The project will be a whole school approach where the other departments will prepare their own…
Let’s Torque Public Speaking Competition Grand Final
The Let’s Torque is a subsidiary of the Royal Society of Victoria, and we run Victoria’s premier public speaking competition for university undergraduates. Competitors submit their ideas in May and then refine their ideas with Let’s Torque workshops. Competitors have to succeed in the semi-finals to progress to our Grand Final. After a live-streamed Grand…