The alarms go off at 4:00. Sleepy NYSFers from Session C make their way down to the bus that will act as a time machine, taking them back in time to see the creatures that roamed the land, or rather seas, of NSW 400-370 million years ago… The NYSF fossil dig day is very popular… Read more
What is critical thinking? Where do we use critical thinking in our lives? How can we improve our ways of thinking to make better decisions? – These are the questions that NYSF2018 students were thinking about during a critical thinking workshop run in collaboration with Siân Keys, NYSF Senior Programs Officer, and Dr Will Grant,… Read more
It’s elective day! That’s the day when NYSF 2018 Brisbane Session B students get to choose which labs they visit. This year, they were able to select from an algae farm, labs and institutes at UQ, a pharmacy school or a visit to the hypersonics centre. One of the options was a visit to the… Read more
The Institute of Molecular Biosciences (IMB) in Brisbane is a global leader in multidisciplinary life sciences research, bringing together 500 researchers from across the globe for disease discovery, application and sustainable futures. It has capitalised on one of the greatest periods of discovery in history – the genetic and molecular basis of life and its… Read more
The NYSF 2018 Session B Hill and Cornforth groups visited the Translational Research Institute (TRI), a medical research institute on the Princess Alexandra Hospital Campus which is made up of four education and hospital partners – The University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute (UQDI) and Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health… Read more
STEM+ is a portion of the NYSF program that focuses on visits to businesses, institutes and organisations that apply STEM skills in a broader sense in the delivery of their services or activities. There’s food, sport, communication and journalism, law, art, coding and any out of the box ideas that present themselves. Students nominated their… Read more
NYSF 2018 Session A students participated in a range of hands on activities allowing them to gain a unique perspective of what is involved in both paramedicine and nursing at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) last week. Ms Amelia Munro began the session by introducing paramedicine and nursing as well as the other degrees that… Read more
Did you know that coffee is the second most consumed drink on the planet? Narrowly beaten by tea, this makes for an enormous worldwide industry, reliant on some hardcore science! NYSF 2018 Session A students were given behind the scenes access at Two Before Ten Coffee in Canberra to explore the science that turns a plant… Read more
The highlight of the second day was a lecture for NYSF Session B students by University of Queensland (UQ) Professor Tamara Davis about her global collaborations on dark energy and gravitational waves. Professor Davis has scanned huge sections of our night sky to build three-dimensional maps of our observable universe. In their deepest regions, these maps show… Read more
That’s right, algae isn’t just the green floaty stuff on top of your fish pond, it’s used to produce fertilizer, a more efficient fuel called biodiesel and is a low cost, environmentally friendly animal food. NYSF students were lead around the farm by Dr Skye Thomas-Hall who showed them the various stages used to cultivate… Read more