Budding scientists visit UOW

Jan 22, 2007

The University of Wollongong hosted the annual Siemens Science Experience on campus last week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 January) featuring a range of creative and quirky science experiments for students entering Year 10 in 2007.

The fun and informative science education program is in its 16th year and aims to introduce students to as many aspects of science, engineering and technology studies at UOW as possible with the hope that students will continue these studies at high school and, eventually, university.

The program, managed nationally by the Science Schools Foundation Inc, is hosted at over 30 sites around Australia and highlights the exciting range of career opportunities open to students with science training.

Activities included a science relay quiz, measuring the temperature of absolute zero, chemical concoctions and combinations, maggots and murder, experimenting with dry ice and fluorescent rocks, computer programming as well as trips to UOW’s Science Centre and Planetarium and BlueScope Steel.

This year almost 50 students travelled from around the state to participate in the Siemens Science Experience.