There were over 200 National Science Week events in WA in 2012, to continue the celebration of science in 2013, applications for this year’s seed grant round are now invited. The WA Coordinating Committee is offering grants of up to $2000 (inc GST) to organisations wishing to organise an event, activity or program during National…
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NT event grants available
Applications are now open for seed grants from the NT National Science Week Coordinating Committee. Grants can be between $500 – $2000 and a there is a total of $7000 available. The Committee are particularly looking to support new and innovative ideas with the grants. Applicants are encouraged to develop project budgets that have cash or in-kind…
ACT seed grants: apply now!
The National Science Week ACT Coordinating Committee is offering seed grants of between $500 – $3000 for community-based new National Science Week activities and events. There is a total of $10 500 available in this round. The ACT Coordinating Committee anticipates a larger grant round may be made available later in the year. To apply, please…
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,…
Science Week Tasmania Update
National Science Week has been very popular in Tasmania with almost 100 events all over the state and thousands participating. This year, the Young Tassie Scientists, or STARs, celebrated 10 years of National Science Week. They visited over 50 schools reaching hundreds of students, some in remote regional areas, with unique talks and demonstrations. They…
National Science Week Tasmania: it’s NOT a wrap!
National Science Week officially ended on the 19th but not for many places all over Australia. Tassie has events on until early September. A discussion on the Square Kilometre Array will be held this Tuesday, August 21 at UTAS Sandy Bay campus. Thanks to events like the Mars Curiosity rover mission and television shows like The Big…
Unsung Hero of South Australian Science Awards 2012
The awards were announced by Prof Don Bursill and presented by Prof David Solomon. 2012 Unsung Hero of South Australian Science Award Dr Jeremy Austin Jeremy is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Deputy Director of the internationally recognised Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, and Director of the newly established…
Day 4: Robogals Workshop Ignites Tasmanian National Science Week
Yesterday at the University of Tasmania in the state’s south, a group of students and adults participated in the Robogals Robotics Workshop. Using Lego kits, participants built small, four wheeled programmable robots. Not only were most of the kids able to build their bots quickly, but some of them had already moved on to modification and…
Science Week: Day 3
We hope you’re enjoying National Science Week so far. There is a diverse schedule of events all over Tasmania through to early September. Ok, why don’t we just call it ‘Science Month’? This week’s highlights in the South include the already booked out screening of A Thousand Invisible Cords on Wednesday the 16th. Never fear,…
read4Nature (farm books) @ Dimboola Library
Recent Read4Nature workshops held in local libraries lead to local NSWk events, when participants will share chosen farm picture books with a small group of children, to unlock the science in the pictures about living things on farms/gardens and do activities to help inspire a love of nature.