Science Week 

Girl in Physics Breakfast

Year 10 student Diane Luo;  three Year 11 students - Indiana Budimir, Rebecca Smith and Michelle Taneja; and two Year 12 students - Margaret Bradbury and Samantha Atran - attended the annual 'Girls in Physics' breakfast.

Girls from all over Victoria travalled to Monash University to hear Dr Ceri Brenner speak about her experience studying physics and entering the field of Laser Physics. She didn’t go easy on the science behind it all, but it was great to see that our MGSC students identified concepts that they had learnt in class.

After the talk we walked over to the Synchrotron. Not usually open for visitors, we were grateful to have our very own tour guide take us around the whole ring and explain what each station’s specialty was and the sorts of research that has been done there, from detecting the chemical makeup of paint underneath the top layer of a famous painter’s painting, to collecting real time data of the degradation of breast milk in a bottle.

It was a big day and we were in awe of the minds behind all the science and technology that is the Synchrotron.

Ms Dahliyani Briedis

Science Domain Leader

Science Breakfast 

On Wednesday 15  August,  Casey Boswell, Natalie Hooper, Grace Grimmer,  Caitlin Morris and I visited Mentone Girls' Grammar for the annual Science Breakfast where we heard an inspirational speech from Jacqui Savage.

Jacqui taught us that anyone of any ability can pursue science and that in our lifetimes we will have more than one career! The event allowed us to network with fellow girls in science from our neighbouring schools and provided us with a deeper insight into future career opportunities in STEM.

We would like to thank Ms Briedis for organising for us to attend this event. 

Katie Barnshaw (Year 11)