The Crazy Scientist, Darin Carr, is heading to Tasmania. Come and tickle your retinas while learning how coloured ninjas, flashing balls and dancing coloured shadows can inform us how your eyes use light to see objects. Experience how we use light to make objects disappear and lasers bounce off microscopic particles in the air to…
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In Tasmania, you can become a RoboCup champion!
Entries are NOW OPEN for students wishing to enter the Tasmanian RoboCup Junior competition, to be held on Saturday 8 August. You can find more information and register at their website. RoboCup Junior is a competition open to primary and high school students, who build and program robots to compete in one of three categories: dance, rescue or soccer. The RoboCup Jr…
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.
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…