Do you find technical talk and scientific jargon sometimes feels like an alien language or scrambles your brain into mush? Do you sometimes feel creative writers are also speaking another language full of colourful flourishes, mixed metaphors and abstract concepts? Can the two be combined successfully? Scientific and artistic endeavours have always intertwined throughout our…
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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.
Tasmanian Seed Grant Winners
Congratulations to the following successful National Science Week seed grant recipients in Tasmania – 2013 is yet another great year of science events and activities! Lynn Davies – Morris Miller Library, UTAS – “Do Fish Cross Roads” exhibition – SEE IT NOW AT UTAS Kevin Redd and Emma Abbot – TMAGgots, Tasmanian Museum and Art…
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…
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,…