Visiting the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis facilities at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Brisbane gave the NYSF 2018 Session B students of Newton, Fenner and Hill groups (physics and biomedical groups) some hands-on experience with world class technology. For their visit, the lab was divided into several stations, manned by PhD… Read more
The human brain is like JARVIS – according to academic and physiotherapist, Dr Niru Mahendran. The brain is an incredibly complex network, the brain that analyses and interprets our environment, provides our voice of reason, controls movement, and stores and transmits information, much like JARVIS does for Tony Stark/Iron Man. Despite the complexity and enigma… Read more
It’s time to gown up, pop gloves on, don your facemask and goggles, and hit the crime scene house, or “Casa de Crime”, at Canberra Institute of Technology. Join NYSF students as they analyse crime scenes, dust for fingerprints, and assess skulls different head wounds. Forensic science begins at a crime scene and may end… Read more
Q: What happens when we get to the edge of a STEM discipline? A: The lines start to blur. During NYSF 2018 Session C students broke outside of the box and started to think how they could link areas of science and creativity to go beyond the traditional disciplinary perspectives. Firstly, students from different interest… Read more
Q. What has eight legs and is made up of dots? A. A stippled drawing of a spider! Most of us have looked through a microscope during a science class at school but have you ever looked at something under a microscope with the intention of drawing it? One of the… Read more
A unique scenario arose during NYSF 2018 Session A, with a mother and daughter attending the National Science Teachers Summer School (NSTSS) and the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) respectively. Angie (student) and Punish Rahega (teacher), from Sydney NSW, were in Canberra at the same time to participate in the two programs. Encouraged to apply… Read more
A few days ago, the NYSF 2018 Session C students from the Curie interest group were shown through the campus of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra, and guided through a hands-on blueprinting exercise which involved the synthesis of metal complexes and the use of their photochemical properties. This visit to ADFA was… Read more
As part of the introductory day, the NYSF students attended a lecture by Professor Brian Schmidt AC, in the Shine Dome. The students were first addressed by Ms Anna-Maria Arabia, CEO of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS). “Science is more a verb than a noun,” she stated at the beginning of her address. She… Read more
On Thursday 25 January 2018, the announcement of those being acknowledged in The Australian of the Year Awards will be made. Last Thursday, the participants and guests at the NYSF 2018 Session B Science Dinner were honoured to hear from the 2017 Australian of the Year, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, at our very first Brisbane-based program,… Read more
Picture this: The halls of Burgmann College are peaceful, the Australian National University (ANU) is fairly quiet in the semester break, but in one night, everything changes – it won’t be quiet around here for two weeks. 200 students who are about to begin their final year of school rolled out of buses after travelling… Read more