Tasmania’s Festival of Bright Ideas needs you!

For the first time, Tasmania will play host to a fun festival celebrating science and the International Year of Light. The Festival of Bright Ideas (FoBI) invites exhibitors and activity providers to participate, free of charge.

Tasmanian event holders information 2015

Thank you to all who attended our free information sessions across the state. We had over 40 attend in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie from a range of disciplines, including Geoff Crane all the way from Questacon in Canberra. If you missed out, please view last year’s event holders info session video. Don’t know where to…

Tasmanians, interested in knowing more about National Science Week?

The exploration, discovery and excitement that is National Science Week is back with another amazing state-wide program planned for 2015. Find out more by coming along to the Hobart or Launceston National Science Week Information Sessions, hosted by the Tasmanian Coordinating Committee. Our guest speaker is Geoff Crane, Manager of National Science Week, from Questacon…

Tasmanian school event grants announced – $500 up for grabs

In 2013, 192 schools around Australia were successful in receiving grants from the Australian Science Teachers’ Association (ASTA) to hold science activities during National Science Week – 15 of these were from Tasmania! This year, schools can apply for grants of up to $700 from ASTA to help them conduct science activities at their school…

Score $500 for your Tassie event – seed grant round now open

There were over 160 National Science Week events in Tasmania in 2013 and to continue this celebration of science in 2014, the National Science Week seed grant round for Tasmanian events is now open. The Tasmanian National Science Week Coordinating Committee is offering seed grants of $500 (inc. GST) to organisations* wishing to offer a…

CSIRO’s Spectacular Science Show

Surrounded by Science! Science is all around us, and this was demonstrated with zaps, pops and fizzes as CSIRO Education put on their Spectacular Science Show at the local LINCs (community libraries) during national Science Week. There was fire, explosions and flying pie dishes as Education Officers Sonia and Ben performed exciting experiments about energy,…