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Electricity Safety Week 2019 will be held 2-6 September in NSW & QLD primary schools. Registrations now open for NSW & QLD primary schools to receive free electricity teaching resources. Primary schools in New South Wales and Queensland are encouraged to get involved in Electricity Safety Week 2-6 September 2019. This annual educational program delivered by Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy, Essential Energy and...

22 July, 2019

The STELR team made a brief visit to Darwin last week to participate in CONASTA 68. As well as having a trade display, we hosted a session outlining all the new STELR resources. We ran activities with the equipment packs (including Sustainable Housing and Electricity and Energy and outlined the new teaching resources which are available for downloading from the STELR...

16 July, 2019

Deakin University is conducting a large-scale study into teaching and learning cosmology in high schools around Australia. The aim of the study is to map student knowledge and develop resources and innovative teaching strategies to provide students with authentic experiences in the topic. The researchers are calling for teachers of Year 10 (science), Year 11 (Physics) and Year 12 (Physics) who...

16 July, 2019

A new housing project being undertaken in Knutsford, Fremantle, is combining the use of renewable energy, 21st century water use, sustainable building and sustainable landscape design. All the buildings will be fitted with solar panels which charge a shared battery used by all the residents, reducing or even eliminating reliance on the electricity grid. Electric vehicle chargers will also be provided....

25 June, 2019

Last week, at the Academy's Innovation Dinner in Sydney, Orica was recognized for its 10 years of sponsorship of the STELR Program.  Pictured above is Hans Zenk (right), Senior Manager Emerging Technologies at Orica, accepting a certificate of appreciation and acknowledgement form Academy President Hugh Bradlow. Orica's ongoing sponsorship of STELR has supported the development of new curriculum materials, the...

17 June, 2019

Find out about microrecycling in this Academy podcast.   Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, an Academy Fellow at UNSW, is pioneering microrecycling … breaking down waste at a molecular level....

28 May, 2019

Whilst visiting Kingston Ontario, STELR’s Peter Pentland attended Science Rendezvous Kingston hosted by Queens University at the Leon’s Centre. The family event was held on Saturday 11 May and transformed the venue into a sort of pop-up science discovery centre with over 20 organisations attending including the Canadian Space agency, robotics teams and several departments of the university. Peter said it...

13 May, 2019

We always welcome feedback and photos of STELR in use. Tammy, one of the teachers at Corona Foothills Middle School in Vail Arizona, has sent us photos of her students using STELR Renewable Energy equipment at their school.    ...

07 May, 2019

This prize is open to students in Years 7 - 10 from schools across Australia. Students are asked to write an 800-word essay on the theme: "Not-so-smart Technology". Further details, including tips for students and teachers, last year's winning entry  and a competition poster can be found on the  Careers with STEM website Entries can be submitted from 29 April 2019 until...

17 April, 2019

A South Australian Company, CCT Energy Storage has recently launched a new way to store energy, the thermal battery. The battery, known as a Thermal Energy Device (or TED) can store electrical energy as thermal energy by heating and melting a unique phase change material. The company says that the energy is stored at more than 12 times the density...

01 April, 2019