It is time to choose your favourite 2021 Science Week activity!

The Best Science Week 2021 Activity People’s choice award winner will receive $250 and a trophy at the 2022 Science Week Awards Ceremony (Sponsored by CDU CEITE).

CLICK HERE to vote on your favourite activity. Voting closes on the 15th of August (11pm).

For more information on each nominated activity, see below:

 1.     Night Sky: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the STEM Curriculum (Milkwood Steiner School)

A winter solstice lantern festival, and astronomy night led by Top End Star Gazers with participants from the whole school community and public participating in this learning. This event incorporated Traditional Knowledge about astronomy, from Larrakia Elder, Duwun Lee.

 2.     Jingili Science Expo and Fair Extravaganza (Jingili Primary School)

Jingili’s Science Fair is a longstanding tradition at Jingili Primary Schoo and involves students from preschool to year 6. It has evolved over time and includes a science expo, where experts from the community come to showcase science in the real world.

 3.     Microbiology for Kids (City of Darwin Libraries)

City of Darwin Libraries would like to present a fun and interactive session to introduce children to microorganisms. City of Darwin Libraries will provided a variety of activities that children can move between to learn about the microorganisms that surround. The activity stations included digital microscopes with slides of various microbes.

 4.     One health in remote communities (Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities - AMRRIC)

An education program at two remote schools in the NT during Science Week that introduced the principles of one Health and demonstrated its importance within remote communities. Students learned the critical role of science in protecting community and environmental health.

 5.     The Science of the Spear (Clyde Fenton School and STEMfit)

This project engaged children in STEM through the analysis of traditional spear throwing using STEM tools. Children saw the relevance of technologies like motion capture, filming, force plates and anatomical explanation of how they move

 6.     Going on a ‘high-tech’ bear hunt (Rebecca Rogers & Sydney Collett)

This event saw attendees learning how ecologists use GPS and radio tracking technology to locate and study animals in the wild. Later that year she provided expert support and knowledge

 7.     A quick guide to shark insides (Amy Kirke)

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a shark looks like? Is it different from humans? We have a shark so come down and find out!

 8.     Chemistry Spectacular (Elnaz Saki, Crystal Xiaoxiang & Vinuthaa Murthy)

During this workshop, participants learned about essential oil obtained from the peel of Citrus or cumin, which are rich in chemical compounds of interest for the perfume, food, and beverage industries.

 9.     Coomalie Science Festival (Coomalie Council)

This Science Festival at Batchelor had various stalls and stations, of science related activities. These activities included: Waste recycling, Weeds management, Parks & Wildlife, Territory Wildlife Park, Bushfires, Rum Jungle Mine Rehabilitation Project & Native Plants NT.

 10.  Two-Way Science Day @ Galiwin’ku (Shepherdson College)

A whole school Two-way Science Day where students rotated between different traditional technology and STEM activities throughout the day. Activities involved community stakeholders including Marthakal Gumurr Rangers; Miwatj Health Clinic; and Yalu Aboriginal Corporation to provide culturally responsive two-way science experiences for our students.   

11.  Science & Sequins: A STEAMy Cabaret (Suzanne Belton, Jenny House, Hanada Ghazala, Sarah Sutcliffe et al.)

Three magnificent women share eye-opening stories about their work in science interspersed with some raunchy cabaret and backed by music in an inspiring night of all feminist, all liberating entertainment celebrating mind and body.

 12.  LEGO Robotic workshop (CDU Women in Engineering Ambassadors)

A workshop where participants actively engaged in coding robots. These workshops offered the young Territorians, who aspire to excel in STEAM fields, a much-needed platform.

 13.  Light up the night!  Glow-in-the-dark fun - and the nuclear physics behind it. (Sunny Science)

The glow-in-the-dark workshops brought light into the lives of children. The kits provided in this workshop included information attempting to teach the quantum mechanics behind glow-in-the-dark.