February 5, 2019 1:40 pm
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Hearty congratulations to all of the winners of the 2019 BHP Foundation Science and Engineering Awards announced this week, including NYSF 2018 participant Macinley Butson. Macinley’s research won two categories in the Awards: The Investigations Category won for her project, The Smart System. The project has been investigating and applying two new devices working together… Read more
January 26, 2019 8:16 pm
Published by Communications Assistant
NYSF 2019 Session C students were on the road again for a STEM visit to the Mulloon Institute, a not-for-profit organisation aiming to restore the natural landscape, while running a 23,000 hectare farm using natural materials and holistic agricultural and land management practices. Exiting the ACT and bumping along a dirt road through the countryside… Read more
January 25, 2019 5:05 pm
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When examining skulls from the human evolutionary lineage, what is immediately striking is not so much the differences between them, but the resemblances linking millions of years together. We learned that ancestors of homo sapiens had remarkable likeness to that of modern humans, in a similar way that locking eyes with a chimpanzee or an… Read more
January 24, 2019 12:07 pm
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Ever wondered how NCIS or CSI track down their criminals? How the team is able to catch a killer just by finding a fibre of clothing at a crime scene or from a footprint in the mud? The answer is forensic chemistry! This week, the Curie interest group for NYSF 2019 Session C visited the… Read more
January 23, 2019 4:19 pm
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On Monday, students from NYSF Session C were invited to attend one of four lectures, presented by leading researchers in their respective fields. These talks were designed to expose students to a variety of different disciplines, and provide an insight into new and emerging research. Dr. Rose Ahlefeldt Dr. Rose Ahlefeldt is a research fellow… Read more
January 23, 2019 11:04 am
Published by Leonie Keogh
How is a doctor able to gauge a patient’s needs and wants if they are unable to verbalise them? This is one of the problems being addressed by wearable technology – and students had the opportunity to see this in action at a workshop delivered by ArteConnect, during the National Youth Science Forum’s (NYSF) 2019… Read more
January 20, 2019 11:15 am
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Featured Image: Rotarian Yvonne and two students at a STEM visit to the ANU Biology Teaching and Learning Centre. After the first whirlwind week of intensity on NYSF 2019 Session C, Sunday is for Home Hospitality, which is an opportunity for some much-needed rest and home-cooked meals from our Rotarian volunteers here in and around… Read more
January 18, 2019 8:39 am
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After the arrival of our students on Wednesday, official proceedings kicked off with a visit to Parliament House for the Opening Ceremony. Staffie Ash chaired the event and began with an insightful Welcome to Country acknowledging Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander cultures as our Nation’s very first scientists. Our keynote speaker was Professor Paul… Read more
January 17, 2019 5:26 pm
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On Sunday the first round of 200 NYSF Year 12 Program participants for 2019 climbed aboard busses and planes to head home. Now with 200 new science friends from around the country, a deluge of new ideas for their future study and career paths, and lots of great advice from all angles – the student… Read more
January 16, 2019 3:11 pm
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Tait Bonito Howdy, Tait Bonito here, joining the Media Teamn at NYSF 2019 Session C from Melbourne. I’m an alumnus of NYSF 2013 Session C and was in the physics group Einstein. Being part of this group at the NYSF consolidated my passion for physics and was key to me undertaking studies in physics at the… Read more