Out for Australia in collaboration with Queers in Science invites you to experience “Queer in STEMM” a free virtual event. In this upcoming event, we are focusing on the experiences of being LGBTQIA+ in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) fields. Join us for a ‘data blitz’ and listen to the personal career…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
STEAM Zone
A fun, engaging session which explores different themes and activities each week. It is suited for people of all ages. Young children may need an adult helper. For National Science Week, our theme is Engineering with Lego. Challenge your engineering and construction skills and make the strongest bridge you can. When: 3:30-4:30pm Wednesdays Where: Alternates…
Fighting Bushfires With Science
How can science help us to fight bushfires? All will be revealed in this National Science Week online event, featuring experts from the Bureau of Meteorology and the University of Melbourne. In a crisis, creativity is required to solve problems. As bushfires blazed across vast areas of Australia in the devastating summer of 2019–20, scientists…
Biobrain’s Webinar: Antibodies, vaccines, and the COVID-19 pandemic
Join Biobrain’s webinar where two expert scientists will discuss the global efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19, as well as how these efforts may improve our ability to more rapidly and effectively respond to future global infectious threats. You will have a chance to ask questions of experts working in this effort, to help…
Deep Blue Defence
In partnership with the Academy of Science, Defence is hosting a series of web shows with STEM professionals across Defence which will be streamed to upper primary and secondary students. Topics will include: Glowing Blue with Clare Grandison Sensing Blue with Dr Brad Evans Atmospheric Blue with LCDR Helen Imlay-Gillespie The webinars are aimed at…
STEM Saving Lives in Defence
This exhibition will showcase the many ways Defence uses STEM to save lives through the work of their scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians. Examples of STEM saving lives will be drawn from the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the work around the bushfires this summer, as well as many other examples across the Defence workforce.
Behind the Scenes Tour: Explore MAGNT’s Wet Store
Join Senior Collections Manager, Natural Sciences, Gavin Dally as he shares the stories behind the amazing variety of specimens and how they support scientific research and wildlife conservation. Explore the MAGNT Wet Store and peer into jars of preserved animal specimens held as part of MAGNT’s Scientific Reference Collection. You might even catch a rare…
National Science Week Launch + Science Saving Lives
Join us as we officially launch National Science Week and the special ‘Science Saving Lives’ forum. Following the official launch of Science Week, stay online for a very special event that will take you behind the scenes of Australia’s COVID response. Our expert panel will reveal how maths and science expertise has helped to save…
Robots in the Making
The Student Robotics Club of South Australia (the RoboRoos) celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2020, and we are about to kick off two new competition seasons, FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge. From our NEW Build Site, The Shed at Adelaide Showgrounds we will livestream our students in action as they workshop the…
Making For All
To boost the participation of our disability community during National Science Week, Making for All: Reaching people with disabilities will feature among more than 1000 events across the country. We’ll send 550 or so circuit-making kits to disability organisations around Victoria. The kits have been designed for young adults with sensory, significant motor or cognitive disabilities so…