NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK

8 – 12 AUGUST

National Science Week was celebrated across the country during the second week of August. Here at McKinnon Secondary College we celebrated with special experiments and demonstrations in class, a number of workshops, presentations and several competitions.

Highlights included presentations/workshops from:

• Dr David Manallack from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences;
• Tyson, Lee and Kira: all Materials Engineers from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Monash University;
• Ray and his reptiles from Snake Busters;
• Cam from GreenHat Plank Engineering Challenge; and
• a viewing of some of the winning films from the 2016 International Science Documentary Film Festival.

COMPETITION WINNERS

Major competition winners for National Science Week were:

Drones, Droids and Robots Poster

Marisha Dinesh (Year 7)

What Does Science Mean To Me? (Video)

Julia Vitiello (Year 9) 

Science Baked Goods

Year 11/12:  Drew Rebbechi

Year 9/10:  Julia Vitiello and Orr Zaacks

Year 8:  Kitty Connolly and Annalie Grima

Year 7:  Tia Finn

Judge's Choice Award:  Chloe James

Cake Master Award:  Zainab Abbas and Freya Cross

Name the Molecule

Andrew  Xu (Year 11) 

Year 7 Medieval Machines

First:  Liam Haidaris

Second:  Alice Pfeiffer

Third:  Zac Nathan  

Therese Sweeney

Head of Science