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Grants for Public Primary Schools in NSW!
Grants are available to primary public schools in NSW to run an activity during National Science Week to encourage primary school children, teachers and their communities to engage with and ...
Learning from our Elders: the Indigenous Science Experience
National Science Week 2012 kicks off in Sydney with an exciting collaboration between Macquarie University, the Australian Museum, the Redfern Community Centre and Aboriginal communities from ...
Food Science Fascinates Victoria’s Visiting MIT Graduate
Following the very successful 2011 tour of international guest Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, this year we have invited Kevin Liu, food fanatascist and blogger. Kevin learned to love ...
Ultimo Science Festival
This year’s Ultimo Science Festival, from August 16 to 26, is shaping up to be a memorable one with a huge range of intriguing events and engaging activities for all kinds of people. Here are ...
3rd Annual Sci-Ku Poetry Competition
Unleash your inner poet by submitting your best science haiku. We’re looking for sci-kus with a FARMING or AGRICULTURAL theme in recognition of the 2012 Australian Year of the Farmer. This is a ...
Rocket Town on tour
Emily Steel’s award-winning play explores the lives of two teenagers and their relationships with the unusual and remote town of Woomera. What does it mean to be young in the middle of ...
SA event seed grants: apply now!
Thinking of holding an event in National Science Week in South Australia? Through the financial support of the Government of South Australia (via DFEEST), there are a number of small grants ...
ACT event seed grants: apply now!
Ten seed grants of $2000 each are available to kick start innovative National Science Week events in the ACT. Preference will be given to events that fall within National Science Week, 11 - 19 ...
Taking Science to the Streets
Students from Gresford Public School and Dungog High School in the Hunter Valley will set up ‘shop fronts’ in the main street of Dungog demonstrating a wide range of experiments and techniques to ...
School Grant winners
Congratulations to all of the schools in each state and territory who have received school grants for great activities within their schools during National Science Week. Australian Capital ...