While global warming and the energy crisis threaten our planet’s future, the odds don’t faze University of Newcastle lecturer in chemical engineering Dr Jessica Allen. Step by step, Dr Allen and her team are reinventing the way we produce energy and materials – with the potential for a profound positive impact on our environment. Our current energy system, in Australia and globally,...
Bernard Hodson, the designer and manufacturer of STELR equipment, passed away on Friday 7 September. Without Bernard’s enthusiasm, insights, contributions and support, STELR would not be the success that it is today. Students and teachers are always full of praise for the STELR equipment packs. Bernard made inquiry-based STEM activities fun and easy to do. Bernard, through his company IEC, designed and manufactured high-grade and reliable school...
Seen recently installed in a park in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, these lamp posts have solar panels mounded on the four faces of their posts....
Three ATSE Fellows were among the winners of the 2018 Eureka Prizes. Professor Andrew Blakers FTSE led a team that discovered 22,000 possible sites in Australia for pumped hydro energy storage, showing that a 100 per cent renewable energy future is possible in the country. The team won the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Professor Tony Weiss AM FTSE won the Eureka...
Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne recently installed a 862 kW solar power system. It was installed by Gippsland Solar who report that it is the largest solar project for any school in Australia. Camberwell Grammar were one of the first to use STELR as they were a 'proof-of-concept' school in 2008. As a proof-of-concept school, they received a roof-top wind...
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science sponsorships grants for science engagement have opened for this financial year. Sponsorship Grants for Student Science Engagement and International Competitions aim to support young Australians to develop skills and potential career opportunities in a field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Grants will be offered to organisations, such as schools and community groups, to...
Students at STELR school, South Oakleigh College (SOC) in Victoria celebrated National Science Week early with a visit from ATSE Clunies Ross Award winner Dr Jim Aylward last week. Jim won the Clunies Ross Innovation Award for the discovery of a novel skin cancer treatment, Picato. Jim chose SOC for his presentation as it was his old school (of sorts)....
Yesterday Churchill Fellow, Elaine Manton, the STEM Coordinator at Loreto Grammar School in the UK, visited the ATSE office to meet with Maggie Evans-Galea and Pennie Stoyles. Elaine received the Churchill Fellowship to travel to Australia and the USA to study programs relating to Engaging Girls in STEM Careers. Loreto Grammar is a select-entry girls' school near Manchester. She and her...
ABC iView has published the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship videos that we produced earlier this year for National Science Week. The videos are now available to a wider audience until 12 September. https://iview.abc.net.au/collection/1999 They can also be viewed on the STELR website, The STELR YouTube channel and at Australia's Science Channel....
The National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) is running a competition open to students in primary schools across Australia. The NATA Young Scientists of the Year Award started in 2007 to foster an interest in science among schoolchildren, and in response to concerns that Australia's scientific expertise is in decline. The competition encourages students to think about what science is and...
