The National Youth Science Forum has been very busy these past six months participating in events running all around Australia. The following events were very successful at promoting all aspects of STEM, with a strong focus on increasing the amount of women in STEM fields. Women in Science Symposium In early March the Women in Science Symposium… Read more
We are very pleased to share the announcement that CSL, an NYSF partner for several years now, has signed on for another three years. This will take them through to supporting the NYSF Year 12 Program, and the organisation at large, until 2021. We would like to take this opportunity to thank CSL for their… Read more
Just like with that, another January at the National Youth Science Forum is done. This year at our Brisbane and Canberra locations nearly 600 young people participated in three sessions of the NYSF Year 12 program; we had 60 science teachers from across the country take part in the two NYSF National Science Teachers Summer… Read more
After landing a position in the graduate program at the Department of Defence, NYSF 2009 alumna Stephanie Otte offers some great advice to students and tells us about her study/career journey so far. “Hi! My name is Stephanie Otte and I attended the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in 2009. I first heard about NYSF… Read more
As a recently graduated high school student, the question I am most asked is, ‘What are your plans after high school?’ Throughout my last year of high school, I often pondered this question and after my experience at NYSF in January 2018 and the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) in July 2018, I knew… Read more
Here at the NYSF we know that the teachers of science in the classroom inspire and engage our participants every day to learn more, and explore the opportunities that future study in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) can offer. Almost all of the NYSF program participants report that their science teacher has been central… Read more
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
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
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
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