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Outreach
FLEET is committed to communicating science to students, schools and the wider community. FLEET is currently developing a program to deliver to school students, working with Growing Tall Poppies Science Partnership, STEM Professionals in Schools, the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, and the ARC Science of Learning Research Centre to bring FLEET research to students across Australia. If you or your school would like to be involved with FLEET, please contact us at education@fleet.org.au
Home Science Activities
FLEET aims to make science more accessible to the wider community, and bring science to even the youngest Australians. We encourage families to do activities at home that foster a love for science from an early age. To help encourage future scientists, FLEET provides fun, easy home science activities and experiments. Check back here for a new activity each week.
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Outreach News
FLEET has an extremely ambitious program of STEM outreach and communication, engaging Australians with science – from school children to the public to policymakers FLEET’s outreach activities improve public awareness of FLEET research and scientific literacy among school students. FLEET members get a greater appreciation of their audience’s interests, understanding and values, and learn how to effectively communicate with them. …
FLEET and MacDiarmid Institute members teamed up at the recent AMN10 conference in Rotorua NZ to conduct science outreach workshops for 320 local school students. Over four days, 25 volunteers from FLEET and partner organisation the MacDiarmid Institute visited seven schools and presented a variety of hands-on science workshops to students ranging from year 4 to 9, in a program …
In 2022 FLEET extended outreach activities to a number of regional and remote schools. Such schools have limited opportunities to engage with visiting scientists, or to and participate with them in hands-on science workshops. Engagement with working scientists, and hands-on exercises, helps engage students’ curiosity, and exposes them to a greater breadth and depth of career opportunities in STEM and …