The Queensland National Science Week Co-ordinating Committee will award several grants of up to $2500 to develop and deliver new events, activities or programs for National Science Week. Eligibility The event must be held in National Science Week (16-24 August). Events that demonstrate a capacity to be repeated without financial support in future years are…
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National Science Week Queensland Launch Grant
The Queensland National Science Week Co-ordinating Committee will award up to $10 000 to develop a launch for National Science Week in Queensland. Eligibility The event must be held on Friday 15 or Saturday 16 August. The launch should be aimed at a wider community rather than a single organisation. The Queensland Minister for Science has…
National Science Week Speaker Grants in Queensland
The Queensland National Science Week Co-ordinating Committee will award four grants of up to $1000 for organisations or individuals to hold events during National Science Week that feature a scientific speaker or speakers. Eligibility The event must be held during National Science Week (August 16-24). School-based activities are ineligible unless they can demonstrate significant community…
Grants now available for regional NSW
NSW Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner has announced funding of $70 000 for the NSW Regional Science Grants program, increasing support to regional communities wishing to celebrate science through public programs and events. The program aims to sustain and extend the Network of NSW Regional Science Hubs, dynamic partnerships between community organisations and scientists who work together…
ACT seed grant recipients for National Science Week 2014
The ACT National Science Week Coordinating Committee is pleased to announce the following individuals and organisations have been successful in securing seed grants to stage events in and around Canberra during National Science Week 2014. 2XX (98.3FM): Future Cop Alzheimer’s Australia: Towards a World without Dementia – Prevention, Cure or Care? Australian Society for Parasitology…
2013 Brain Break Tasmania Photo Competition Winner
This year, Tasmania had over 30 Brain Break morning teas registered across the state. We offered a $100 ABC Shop voucher to the morning tea that best exhibited what a Brain Break hopes to achieve: fun science in the workplace, at home or at school. We encouraged everyone to put their culinary skills to the…
Thank you to all event holders – now it’s your turn to win!
Thanks to all your hard work, it has been a fantastic National Science Week! Hundreds of people are involved in events around the state with activities still taking place. (We should just change it to science month really…) Just over the weekend, participants enjoyed the science of seafood at QVMAG, heard about life on the…
Thanks for a great National Science Week in Queensland
National Science Week is over for another year, but fantastic science events will continue to take place around the country. There’s so much science around us every day; look for it, get involved, and enjoy. This National Science Week saw 396 events happen around Queensland, contributing to over 1800 events across Australia. We had the…
Fungi Fanatics Reap Rewards
Experiments and activities based on “food, farming and fungi” kept thousands of school students in the DAFF Hermitage Schools Plant Science Competition busy this year. Students from years prep to twelve performed mouldy bread and yeast-making experiments, played a soils role-play card game, searched their school grounds for lichen species and put all their research and…
Necessity brings innovation in the bush
We often think of science in modern terms. Space, research, computers – things that we see changing our lives from concept into reality. In my travels creating historical documentaries around Australia I see how science has been with us from day dot. Innovation often comes from necessity, and when the needs of our pioneering ancestors…