Young quantum poets; space cadets; kids’ conference Antarctica; classrooms in croc-filled billabongs; owl vomit

National Science Week

Great National Science Week education stories up for grabs now around Australia

  • Enter the ‘Ittyverse’: Aussie kids’ poems on ‘small, tiny, nano things’ during Quantum Year – online
  • Remote school students use baited underwater cameras to explore croc-filled billabongs – Ramingining, NT
  • Australian Space Agency funds primary school ‘Mission: SPACE’ program – online
  • Preschoolers dissect owl vomit – South West Rocks, NSW
  • Quantum Year goes off-road – touring Australia’s cities and regions
  • School field trips to renewable farms, food labs, and cellar doors – Riverina, NSW
  • Schoolchildren meet biosecurity experts on the frontline – Katherine and Berrimah, NT
  • TAFE course for kids to build and program weather stations – Palmerston City, NT
  • Did dinosaurs do maths? – online via Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Winton, QLD
  • Kids’ Conference Antarctica taps into climate change – online
  • Multimedia project captures 65,000+ years of Indigenous Knowledge through voices of elders, scientists and environmentalists – online
  • Carbon-fibre bones, gravity waves and selfies with atoms: Forrest Research Foundation opens its doors to the public – Crawley, WA
  • ‘Mother of Sharks’, plastic pollution detectives, and a deep-sea engineer live from the Arctic Circle deliver ocean science lessons – online
  • Icy ocean expert and the navy forecaster talk climate and careers – Sydney, NSW
  • Play with light: hologram workshops – Sydney, NSW
  • Deadly Science in a biomedical lab – Brisbane, QLD
  • Black holes, bad bugs and tabby cats – young scientists on tour – multiple locations, TAS
  • Space weather, stargazing and the world’s cleanest air – Ulverstone and Tasmania’s North West
  • Blast bacteria with beanbags and join other Kids Research Institute Australia experiments – Kalgoorlie, WA
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