Science Week

Prizes to be Won

Win a wi-fi telescope!

All you have to do is register for Galaxy Explorer at: https://www.galaxyexplorer.net.au or via the ABCScience facebook page and classify at least 10 galaxies to enter into the competition.

And the more galaxies you classify the more competition entries you’ll get – one entry for each 10 classifications.

Main prize

There are two Celestron Cosmos 90GT Wi-fi Telescopes (RRP $1,099.95 each) up for grabs – this telescope  can be controlled with an app from iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

National Big Science Competition

Congratulations to Trung Le and Kayla Tziolis (7A) for achieving merits of Credit for the National Big Science Competition, ranking their test performance in the top 25% of the country. Well done to all Yr 7 students who took on the challenge of this competition. Students who participated will receive  certificates.

KIOSC Careers of the Future

Science

National Science Week: Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. We are in partnership with the Knox Innovation and Opportunity Centre (KIOSC) at Swinburne University, we are a listed Monash University Chemistry Extension Centre and every year we run exciting activities with help from Carly Siebentritt from CSIRO.

This year we will be collaborating with the inspirational likes of the Australian National University, The Astronomical Society of Victoria, Guinness World Book of Records, The Melbourne Aquarium, The Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI), KIOSC and Chris Humfrey’s Wild Action Zoo (as seen on ABC) to offer our students and our school community the very best in science innovation and education.

We invite all to be involved in our World Record Stargazing event on Friday 21 August, 7:30- 8:40pm on our school oval.  We will have high-tech telescopes and expert astronomists present to familiarise visitors with the night sky and special features of our moon, we are working towards a Guinness World Record: ‘Most people stargazing across multiple sites in one country, Australia’, the current record is held by Mexico.

Our other exciting Science week events include: a VCE Chemistry and Biology SAC excursion to the Melbourne Aquarium, a visit by Wild Action Zoo with various Australian animals including Koalas, Snakes and Crocodiles, TEDx student talks about Light and a Brain Break Science Week morning tea where science teachers will share ‘spacey’ like foods and members of staff will compete to answer the Brain Break quizzes to their best abilities to win an array of prizes.

For information, please feel free to contact us on (03) 9765 4100.

Alison McGregor

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