Season’s Greetings … see you in January!
December 19, 2013 3:20 pm
Categories for National Youth Science Forum
From the Director
December 19, 2013 3:18 pmWelcome to the December 2013 issue of NYSF Outlook. This time of year provides the opportunity to reflect on the past year and look forward to the future. One of the most influential people in both my personal and professional life, who I met in my teens, often reminds me during difficult and challenging times… Read more
2014 NYSF Chiefs of Staff
December 19, 2013 3:15 pmCongratulations to Stuart McKelvie, Caroline Leach and Tayla McKechnie, the three former NYSF students who will each be coordinating the three January Sessions of the NYSF in 2014 as the chiefs of staff. As volunteers they are directly responsible, with the mentoring of the Director and his team, for 150 domestic and international students, the… Read more
Summer fun for teachers of science
December 19, 2013 3:12 pmCongratulations to the teachers of science from across Australia who will be attending the National Science Teachers’ Summer School (NSTSS) in January 2014. Run in collaboration with the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA) and with the support of the Australian National University (ANU), the NSTSS is now in its fifth year. Teachers spend a week… Read more
Passing the pen
December 19, 2013 3:10 pmCongratulations to Adam de Totth, who was voted in as Secretary of the Council of the National Science Summer School Inc (which operates the National Youth Science Forum) in November 2013. He takes over from Ian Sayers, who stood down from the role in August 2013. Ian had served as Secretary of the Council since… Read more
Adelaide alumni jump up for the NYSF
December 19, 2013 3:00 pmNYSF alumni based in and around Adelaide have been getting together at the beach just after Christmas for the past four years, and this year will be no different. Gemma Gransbury (NYSF 2010) says that each year, incoming NYSF participants join the gathering. “It’s a really fun day, playing volleyball, swimming and even building sandcastles. … Read more
From the Chair
November 6, 2013 3:30 pmI am very pleased (and not just a little bit proud) to have been recently elected Chair of the Council for the National Science Summer School – the body that runs the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF). I first became involved in the NYSF back in the distant mists of the last century, in the… Read more
To sleep is to dream
November 6, 2013 12:58 pmWhen University of Queensland academic and researcher Philip Terrill attended the NYSF in 2000, it’s likely that sleep (or not enough of it) wasn’t an over-riding concern for him. These days, however, he is very concerned with it. In fact, he approaches sleep from a scientific perspective. Phil is now a biomedical engineer interested in… Read more
“… by the end of NYSF I was completely hooked on science”
November 6, 2013 12:55 pmSeven years ago I was lucky enough to go to NYSF, Session B, 2006. What followed was a two week blur of science, chanting, laughter, confidence building, friendship and that inevitable final day when you realise you have to go back home. I was in Rutherford, being a chemistry enthusiast at the time, and wore… Read more
The view from the road — Geoff Burchfield
November 6, 2013 12:28 pmIf it’s Monday this must be Townsville. That’s what it sometimes feels like when you’re on the NYSF Orientations circuit. Actually it was Mackay and this was the Queensland leg of the 2013 tour. As people arrived for the 6 o’clock event at Mackay’s Ocean International Hotel I was struck again by how far many… Read more