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Science Poetry Competition; the winning poem
Here is Meredi Ortega's winning poem in the Australian Poetry Science Poetry Competition. The poem imagines the liner notes that might accompany the golden phonograph records attached to Voyagers ...
National Science Week 2014 Grants
The grant round for National Science Week 2014 is about to open. The round has a total value of $500 000. There are already two grants of $10 000 each (they are 3-year grants from 2012) so there ...
Explore the Seafloor at school
We recently received this wonderful feedback from a teacher about how her Yr 3/4 class had engaged with citizen science and Explore the Seafloor. What a fabulous project this is! I've been ...
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 ...
Explore the Seafloor almost over
More than 225 000 seafloor photos have been studied by citizen scientists so far. There are now less than 4 days to go! Citizen scientists have until midday this Monday 2 September to study more ...
Schools event survey (and prizes)
We'd really like to get a snapshot of what Australian schools did to celebrate National Science Week this year. If your school organised or participated in any activities or events during ...
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 ...
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 ...
Science Poem of the Day: 18 August
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Tricia Dearborn Making Pipettes Rolling the hollow rod above 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 ...