UOW hosts annual science experience for students

Jan 16, 2007

The University of Wollongong will host the annual Siemens Science Experience on campus this 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 will include a science relay quiz, measuring the temperature of absolute zero, chemical concoctions and combinations, maggots and murder, computer programming as well as trips to UOW’s Science Centre and Planetarium and BlueScope Steel.

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

When: Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 January

Where: Faculty of Science (Bldg 41), University of Wollongong

For further information: Contact Science Publicity Officer, Scott East on (02) 4221 3512

**Media please note: The best time for photo/filming opportunities will be Wednesday at 2pm (‘Cool Physics’ session in Room 263 which will involve test tubes, liquid nitrogen etc) or Friday 11am (‘Maggots and Murder’ session in Room 101 will involve analysing the life cycle of flies).

For more information, contact:

media@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong
Ph: (02) 4221 5942; fax (02) 4221 3128