STEAM Matters - Science

2018 Brain Bee Challenge

Registrations are now open for the 2018 Brain Bee Challenge!

The Australian and New Zealand Brain Bee Challenge is an exciting competition for high school students in Year 10. The Brain is our final great frontier for exploration; the competition challenges students to learn about the brain and its functions, neuroscience research, and careers in neuroscience, while dispelling misconceptions about neurological and mental illnesses.

Round 1 of the competition will take place during Brain Awareness Week, 12-18 March 2018.

Questions will be taken from Neuroscience - Science of the Brain: An Introduction for Young Students which can be downloaded as a PDF.

If you are interested contact Mrs Rieniets for further details.

Louise Rieniets

Science Domain Leader 

The ConocoPhillips Science Experience

This offers three or four days of fun science activities for 2017 Year 9 and 10 students. Participants perform experiments in the laboratories, meet and hear senior lecturers in the lecture theatres, attend site visits and walk around and experience what it is like to be on the campus of a university or tertiary institution.

For more information about the program please visit: https://www.scienceexperience.com.au/

Louise Rieniets

Science Domain Leader 

Ecosystems in a Bottle

In Year 7 Science this semester we learning about ecosystems and how to make one and look after one. We also learnt what an abiotic and biotic factor is. In my group my hypothesis was ‘When the soil pH is acidic the growth of the plant will be effected. During our observations we have noticed the experimental group plant is slowly dying. In the control group our plant has grown 2cm since our last observations and mustard seeds are beginning to germinate.

Inacia Ferreira 7G