Science

In the past month SIDE students have had access to two fascinating and different scientists through Webex presentations.

Participate in school activities and events around Australia to celebrate National Science Week 2021.

Evolutionary biologist Dr Elizabeth Sinclair is coming to SIDE.

SIDE Science students were privileged to hear Dr Helen Maynard-Casely present on Webex on Friday 23^rd August. In 2019 Dr Maynard-Casely gave the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics lecture. Helen is an Instrument Scientist based at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). She uses neutrons to investigate the materials that make up our solar system.

Destination Moon: more missions, more science is the school theme for National Science Week in 2019. This means, of course, we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing in 1969.

As part of science students’ study of Biology in Term 2, teacher Diana Tomazos invited Stephen Crane from the ‘Nearer to Nature’ team at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions to SIDE.

As part of National Science Week, Yamilée Toussaint shared her passions for STEM and dance with SIDE students in a webcast produced in partnership with Scitech.

SIDE was proud to host Nobel Prize winner, Professor Barry Marshall and UWA Professor Andy Whiteley to launch the new MicroBlitz mobile app, and explain why they want SIDE students to get out there and dig for DNA.

WA’s most famous scientist, Nobel Prize winner, Professor Barry Marshall seems to think so. That’s him in the picture, digging up a soil sample for DNA analysis.

Scitech staff Shelley Turnbull and Laura Pitts visited SIDE in the last week of term one and performed their magic for our cameras. The performance helped finish the term with some fun science.