Posts Tagged ‘community’

Drew Dudley: Leading with lollipops on TED

February 11, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Drew Dudley is the ‘founder and chief catalyst’ at Nuance Inc.  The TED Facebook page shared this wonderful video of Drew speaking about the many ways we all quietly influence the people around us.  It’s something you do everyday at school.  They may not realise it yet, but those kids are so lucky to have [...]

Snakes and Ladders, or what the Chief Scientist can do for you

November 11, 2011 by · Comments Off
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Image: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net At ConQEST 2011 we were lucky enough to have Queensland’s Chief Scientist, Dr Geoff Garrett, as a keynote speaker.  Lucky because he’s an incredibly busy man, lucky because our conference clashed with another that he was expecting to be at and lucky because he’s an entertaining and interesting person to [...]

Cheesey grins

June 8, 2011 by · Comments Off
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Congratulations to the students from St. Pauls who won first prize in the homemade cheese section of the Brisbane Cheese Festival at Portside yesterday. There were over 50 entries in this section so it is a credit to their teacher and lab techs on a very fine effort I would also like to thank the [...]

Committee Meeting 3 May

April 6, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here The next committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, 3 May at 3.45pm. The main focus of the meeting will be wrapping up the organisation of the workshops for ConQEST 2011 in June. Every QEST member is welcome so grab the instructions for joining via Skype, make yourself a nice cup of [...]

Submit to LabLINK

April 4, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here Deadline for submissions to LabLINK is Friday, April 9.   This is the final edition of LabLINK before ConQEST (whoosh – there goes the year!) so don’t miss out if you have something to contribute. Don’t forget that submissions to LabLINK put the author in the running for the Sandra Lewis Achievement [...]

STAQ Event

March 30, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here The Science Teachers Association of QLD is holding a professional development event for beginning and pre-service teachers. See the STAQ website for all the details. Date: Thursday 7th April 2011 4.30pm – 9.00pm Venue: CSIRO Education – EcoSciences Presinct – 41 Boggo Road Dutton Registrations Now Open: two workshops available per primary [...]

Committee Meeting 4 April

March 24, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here The next committee meeting will be held on Monday, 4 April at 3.30pm. The main focus of the meeting will be wrapping up the organisation of the workshops for ConQEST 2011 in June. Every QEST member is welcome so grab the instructions for joining via Skype, make yourself a nice cup of [...]

Backyard Explorer Workshops 2011

March 10, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here The QLD Museum is going to be holding free workshops in western QLD during 2011. In the workshop, you’ll discover how to design a biodiversity monitoring project and get hands-on opportunities to: Collect insects using different trapping methods Use preservation and labelling techniques Identify major insect types using an interactive key Consider [...]

Welcome to 2011

January 19, 2011 by · Comments Off
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photo from here Welcome to 2011!  This year is the International Year of Chemistry and the International Year of Forests. How could we possibly have forseen the floods that have ravaged not only QLD but many parts of the country during the holidays?  Many of you will have been helping as we all work towards [...]