National Science Week will be here before you know it, and we’d love to promote your public Tassie event. If your event is in Tassie, streamed from our beautiful island, or involves our science, add it the Inspiring Tasmania website as well as here on the Science Week event calendar. Your event will be distributed…
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TAS: STEMM Grants boost local science community
The Tasmanian National Science Week Coordinating Committee and Inspiring Australia (Tasmania) awarded 23 grants at total of $39 000 to support organisations who will deliver a public science, technology, engineering, maths or medicine (STEMM) themed activity in 2021. Most of these will be part of the National Science Week festival next year. Committee Chair, Dr Ben…
TAS: TastroFest seen world-wide
Update on national grant project TastroFest by Brittany Trubody, TastroFest Director TastroFest was held online and to adapt, we created our “Explorers Edition” where we went behind the scenes to give tours of various locations such as Bisdee Tier and Mt Pleasant observatories. We had kids aurora bedtime stories and astrophotography tips, as well as…
TAS: Seed grants for 2021 events now open
Apply now to receive funds to run a STEM event or activity in Tasmania in 2021. Individuals, organisations and businesses are invited to apply for funding to help support your public STEM engagement event or activity in 2021. Grants of up to $2000 (ex GST) are available for events and activities that engage Tasmanians in…
TAS: Seed grants for 2021 announced
The Tasmanian National Science Week Coordinating Committee is excited to announce that grants of up to $2000 will soon be available for events and activities in National Science Week 2021. If you have a great idea for an event or activity in Tassie for next year’s National Science Week or have always wanted to host…
Watch Science Week Tas TV
National Science Week has officially ended but what if you didn’t have enough time to check out all the live events? It’s time to tune in to Science Week Tas TV on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel as more videos will be added. Share with friends, family, and especially the teacher in your life. Get…
TAS: Meet Elizabeth Blackburn
Professor Emerita Elizabeth Blackburn: Nobel Prize Winner, Tasmanian From the beaches of Snug, Tasmania to the world stage, and now Patron of National Science Week Tasmania, Professor Emerita Elizabeth Blackburn has never lost her tendency to be deadly curious. Now based at the University of California, San Francisco, Professor Blackburn is a leader in…
TAS: The Big Schools Guide to Science Week in Tasmania
Attention teachers, parents, and students: What’s on offer in Tassie for schools in 2020? LOTS! Check out our guide and get excited for #scienceweek! Welcome to National Science Week 2020 – online! This is a breakdown of online activity available for younger people in Tasmania, and across Australia, this August. Educators should visit the National…
TAS: Science Week heads online with help from local grants
National Science Week will look a little different this year as it heads fully online for the first time since it started in 1997. With thanks to local seed grants, at least 23 organisations and individuals will be supported to convert their hands-on brand of science engagement to an online format. To combat the difficulties…
TAS: New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, a lot of people around the world choose 1 January to mark a turning point in their lives. Some people want to get healthy or read more books. Us? We just want to science. Each year, our Coordinating Committee do a report on how everything went and part of that is outlining what…