The Career Sessions podcast showcases the unique and inside stories of people working in their careers. Hosts, Dr Stephanie Champion and Dr Tamara Agnew hold PhDs in public health and health science. We are researchers and academics who are driven by our desire to really understand the world that exists outside of our own bubble….
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Future Scientist Career Quiz
Scientists are humanity’s frontline. Wherever answers are needed they lead the charge – overcoming complex global challenges, solving real-world problems and developing solutions for the future. Incredibly, science is predicted to bring more human progress in the next 50 years than the previous 400 combined. Fighting climate change… saving lives… sustaining the environment… ending hunger……
Deep Blue Marine STEAM Competition for 3-10 year olds
Dive into the deep blue and let those creative juices flow this National Science Week. Enter our ‘Deep Blue’ Marine STEAM Competition for a chance to WIN an awesome science pack. CHALLENGE: Make a marine creature Get creative with craft materials, paint and items from around your home and backyard to design and make a marine creature. Be inspired by…
National Science Week CSHS 2020
We will be hosting lunch time events pitched towards junior students. There will be a session for each of the sciences offered at our school, used as a form of ‘showcasing’ science. All events will be ‘deep blue’ themed.
Event Horizon Symposium
Australia’s seminal art journal, Art + Australia, will explore the conjunction of art and science in its next issue, Event Horizon #52.6, which will be released in August. The publication will coincide with a three day Event Horizon Symposium hosted by the University of Melbourne’s Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and the Science Gallery Melbourne,…
ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon
Following a run of successful hackathons involving ANSTO and nandin startups, we’re excited to be launching a hackathon for students in partnership with the Australian Museum as part of National Science Week The hackathon is open to Australian secondary school students in Years 7-11 interested in science and technology. First 20 teams to submit a complete…
The World According to Physics
Jim Al-Khalili’s new book, The World According to Physics, is his love letter to the subject he has spent most of his life thinking about. Physics is a key part of the human quest to understand the world. In this talk, he shares with us his account of what physics has achieved. Taking us on…
Royal Society of NSW presentation: The Periodic Table: ‘… a medley of haphazard facts falling into line and order’
The ancients had isolated and named around thirteen substances, mostly metals, not necessarily realising they were unique, chemically-indivisible ‘elements’. With the discovery of Oganesson (118 Og) we have completed the seventh row of the modern periodic table. In between, the science of Chemistry has been built on the discovery and manipulation of more and more…
Girls Day Out in STEM 2020 Online
Designed for girls aged 10 – 14 years, Eureka Explorers and CSU have partnered to create a fun, carnival like day full of interactive learning experiences online with industry leaders in STEM. There is something for everyone in all four STEM areas in chemistry, paramedicine, environmental science, music x IT, drones, apps, artificial intelligence (AI),…
Community Investigation and Poster Competition: Statistics and Data Science
Collaborate, investigate, create. Why should kids have all the fun? Develop, implement and creatively report upon (in poster format) an investigation on any area or topic of interest … for prizes. Expanding the hugely successful annual National Schools Poster Competition, this new Community Division of the initiative enables teams of two to five participants (of…