Posts Tagged ‘professional development’

photo from here The dates for ConQEST 2012 have been set for Monday and Tuesday, 25 and 26 June 2012.  The program is yet to be finalised, but you can get a taste of what it might be like by checking out the ConQEST page on this site and having a look at last years [...]

Image: dream designs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Are you wondering already how many weeks until school holidays roll around again? Well this is your lucky day! The calendar has been updated with the school holidays, public holidays and student free days for 2012 and the beginning of 2013.  The dates for ConQEST 2012 in June have been [...]

This is the prize pool that we had to give away at ConQEST on Monday.  Everything from balances to labcoats, iPods to Molymods was donated by the trade displayers for the grand lucky door prize draw. And this is the pile of names of people that were drawn out who couldn’t claim their prize because [...]

photo from here Online registration for ConQEST 2011 is now live. Click here to register Once registered, you will receive an invoice from QEST 5-7 working days after registration. Please forward this invoice to your Finance Department for payment. The page is hosted by the Education Queensland South East Region Learning Community site so you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

photo from here   The February 2011 edition of LabLINK has today been emailed to all current financial members. The best publications are those that are contributed to by their readers.  We would like to see more input from the membership for future editions of the newsletter.  Anyone who sends an article for LabLINK to [...]

photo from here At long last we can announce that ConQEST will be held on June 27 & 28 this year at Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill. News on the workshops, keynotes and general fun and frivolity will be posted here as it comes to hand. If you’ve got a great idea for a [...]

The call for workshop abstracts for CONASTA 60 has been extended to Monday 21 February. We are considerably short of the number of workshops that are required so if you are doing something in science education that other teachers would find interesting, please apply now with the form found on the CONASTA website. Trade display [...]

So here we all are at LabCON today.  The delegates were served morning tea, lunch and happy hour drinks and nibbles here in the trade display hall on the ground floor of the conference center. These photos were taken from the 1st floor where most of the labs are located. There were some surprises amongst [...]