Our pick of the Queensland’s National Science Week highlights for media:

• Gen z to the rescue
• What will it take to keep the Great Barrier Reef great?
• A Slice of Science
• Make a melon go boom
• From reef to desert: how far can a girl with a drone go?

More on each of these events and activities below, along with publicity contact details for each.

Our pick of the Australian Capital Territory’s National Science Week highlights for media:

• Discover new species, map wildlife, track the effects of climate change
• Your selfie from space
• How to make a reef from music and glass
• Science experiments and games for people with disabilities

More on each of these events and activities below, along with publicity contact details for each.

Great National Science Week stories and talent up for grabs around the Territory, including:

• Growing hemp in the Territory
• Will the climate get hotting in the Red Centre?
• Your selfie from space
• Can you brew a decent beer using a wild yeast caught from a backyard in Darwin?
• Will the Territory be the centre of Australia’s new space race?
• Can you save a cartoon character from being plunged into a vat of acid?—Darwin
• Become a Carbon Counter and join the challenge cut our contribution to climate change.

More on these highlights below, and others at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, artists, performers and event organisers are available for interview throughout Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977

National Science Week gets on the sauce, with events exploring brewing with algae, beers of the future, and the sensory secrets of pinot noir.

• How will beer taste in the future?—Melbourne
• What do algae have to do with beer making?—SydneyWhere does your pinot get its flavour and aroma from? Ask a wine scientist (yes, that is a real thing!)
• What can four different brews teach you about the science of beer?—Hobart
• Can you brew a decent beer using a wild yeast caught from a backyard in Darwin?

These are just a few of the intoxicating events happening across Australia during National Science Week (August 15 to 23).

If you’re after more great ideas for highly visual stories, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, brewers and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week. Read on for publicity contacts for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977 or 03 9398 1416.

Great National Science Week ARTS stories up for grabs now around Australia.

• Phasmid of the opera: performances featuring music, dance and a stick insect–Melbourne
• How to make a reef from music and glass—Canberra
• The art of event horizons–Melbourne
• Famous Tasmanians talk science in the wilderness—Tasmania
• Can you save a cartoon character from being plunged into a vat of acid?—Darwin
• Beauty from the ashes: recovery after bushfires—Tasmania
• Making viruses from couscous and chook-wire–Melbourne

These are just a few of the arts events happening across Australia during National Science Week (August 15 to 23).

If you’re after more great ideas for highly visual stories, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, artists and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977 or 03 9398 1416.

Great National Science Week EDUCATION stories up for grabs now around Australia.

Australia’s biggest science festival is splashing into real schools, school-at-home, and virtual classrooms. With this year’s activities migrating online, stories have local talent and national reach:

• Make a melon go boom—Brisbane
• Gamers: can you power up enough molecules to fire a laser?—Melbourne
• Who are you calling ugly? Help Blobfish and his friends save their ocean homes—Adelaide
• Discover the galaxy in your kitchen—Melbourne
• Learn from 60,000 years of Aboriginal astronomy and Indigenous knowledge—Sydney
• A whole-school selfie from space—Canberra and Northern Territory
• From reef to desert: how far can a girl with a drone go?—Cairns
• Meet the Marine Team: comedy science on film!—Melbourne
• Whale snot in the classroom—Sydney
• Become a Carbon Counter and join the challenge cut your contribution to climate change.

These are just a few of the events, activities and lessons for schools happening across Australia during National Science Week: August 15 to 23.

If you’re after more great ideas for highly visual stories, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, performers and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977 or 03 9398 1416.

Great National Science Week ENTERTAINMENT stories up for grabs now around Australia.

As Australia’s biggest science festival migrates online, every story has national reach. Try these ideas:

• Real whodunnits: learn the secrets of forensic investigation
• How do superbugs get super-villain superpowers?
• Discover storms on Jupiter—multiple events and locations
• Giant wombats versus ichthyosaurs: which would win? Adelaide palaeontologists fight over which is the best fossil
• Can you save a cartoon character from being plunged into a vat of acid?
• Discover the galaxy in your kitchen
• Hit the virtual science trail across Sydney

These are just a few of the events and activities happening across Australia during National Science Week: August 15 to 23.

If you’re after more great ideas for highly visual stories, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, performers and event organisers are available for interview throughout Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977

Great National Science Week stories and talent up for grabs around South Australia, including:

• Are koalas really cuddly … or are they dropbears in disguise?
• How do superbugs get super-villain powers?
• Forget the Telstra shop. Your smartphone came from the stars. Find out how.
• Giant wombats versus ichthyosaurs: which would win? Adelaide palaeontologists fight over the best fossil
• Explore a gravitational wave detector via Minecraft
• How can you tell good science from bad? Ask the experts (if you trust them!)
• Meet the cuttlefish, sea-dragons, dolphins, sharks and rays of the Great Southern Reef – without getting wet
• The science of blowing a record-breaking 19.8-metre soap bubble
• Help SA’s endangered bandicoots find prickly new homes
• Discover the love-hate relationship between butterflies and ants
• Become a Carbon Counter and join the challenge cut our contribution to climate change.

More on these highlights below, and others at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, artists, performers and event organisers are available for interview throughout Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977

Great stories and talent up for grabs around Australia, including:

• Discover storms on Jupiter—multiple events and locations
• Your selfie from space—Canberra and Northern Territory
• Get your dark sky back—talent from Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne
• Are bushfires good for plankton?—Tasmania
• Giant wombats versus ichthyosaurs: which would win? Adelaide palaeontologists fight over which is the best fossil
• Vaccines, coronavirus, criminal trials, and climate change: trusting science in a time of crisis—Melbourne
• Is your diet good for the planet?—talent in Sydney and Melbourne
• What will it take to keep the Great Barrier Reef great? Ask an expert—Gold Coast
• Flying doctors: how do you save lives while flying thousands of metres above sea level?—Perth
• Growing hemp in the Red Centre—Alice Springs

These are just a few of the events happening across Australia in National Science Week, August 15 to 23.

If you’re after more great ideas for stories, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

Scientists, performers and event organisers are available for interview before and during National Science Week. Read on for contact details for each event, or call:

• Tanya Ha: tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
• Niall Byrne: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0417 131 977 or 03 9398 1416.