'Big History' Panel Discussion

Questioning the construction of truth in Science

Last Wednesday evening a group of Year 9 and 10 ‘Big History’ students were part of a panel discussion event broadcast live from Parliament House called ‘A hard-won theory: Tectonic Plates in Victoria’, as part of their Stem and Society Online Series.

In this special online discussion, our students had the opportunity to hear from four eminent Victorian geologists, including Dr William Birch AM and Professor Andy Gleadow, about their experience as students, as a fiercely held status quo gave way to a hard-won new theory within the international scientific community. 

Our students, Sarah Stafford, Ava Pinnuck, Ken Furukawa, Gabriel Vivian-Kay, Conor Flattley and Remy Caithness-Christoffels  got to ask the leading Victorian geologists questions about this major scientific revelation relating to tectonic plates. They generated some amazing discussion and we were very proud of them and how they represented our school. 

The event was presented in partnership with the Royal Society of Victoria and Victorian Parliamentarians for STEM, and a video of this online conversation can be viewed at vicparl.news/3xK5544. 

Jerome Holleman