Grants reporting

Urangan SHS is sending 50 students to Canberra to engage in STEM related activities by visiting Questacon, Deep Space Communication Complex, AIS and National Zoo.

Students from Bede Polding will attend the 2018 Space Camp USA

Cerdon College is sending one student to Space Camp USA 2018.

Riverbank Public School students will attend Space Camp USA in Huntsville AL, USA.

Loreto Ballarat Limited is taking 20 students to NASA space camp in Huntsville Alabama.

Mater Dei College is sending a group of 20-30 students to the EDU School Tours Space Camp/STEM Tour in to the USA.

St Marks College 2018 Space Academy USA

Santa Sophia - Four students will attend the 2018 Space Academy USA.

Beaconsfield State School: Country to the Coast - rural students attend the Sydney Science Festival.

St Peter's Girls' School is sending 4 students to Silicon Valley (San Francisco) to the Techonovation World Summit to pitch their national award winning app (V-Link) which was awarded as a part of the Search for the Next Tech Girl Super Hero Challenge.

Northview State School is sending sixteen students to the 2018 Sydney Science Festival.

Grant Funding will assist three Bellingen High School students to participate at the Aurecon Bridge Building Competition in Sydney during August 2018.

Maffra Students to attend Stradbroke Island Science Camp

Grant funding will assist 30 year 9 students to attend NASA Space Trek Advanced International camp in USA.

Emmaus Catholic College is sending two teams of seven students to Knoxville Tennessee USA to represent Australia at the Destination Imagination Global Finals 2018.

9 Students will present their discoveries at an international science fair in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, US.

The pesticide detectives program will support citizen scientist based research to assess the occurrence of pesticides commonly used around the home in Australias waterways. Citizens will work with researchers from the Centre for Aquatic Pollution identification and management (CAPIM) to conduct a national survey of concentrations of current use pesticides within waterways draining from catchments of varied land-use. The program will assess chemicals commonly found in the home, therefore educating participants about products they may use, how they may enter our waterways and risks they may pose. The data collected will provide impetus for policy and debate to reduce the occurrence of and risks from pesticides in Australias waterways.

Scouts ACT, Engineers Australia and ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science will deliver a SciScouts: Engineering Extravaganza in August 2018 at Melrose High School ACE Science Centre. Workshops and exhibitors fair will include: mousetrap racers, straw towers, geodesic domes, spaghetti towers, disc hovercrafts, construction, sustainability and engineering of flight. A satellite event - SciScouts: Engineering workshops will also be held during first week of October for 100 rural/remote Lone Scouts from across NSW during their annual camp at Camp Canobolas near Orange. Younger Joey Scouts (age 6-7) will also participate in engineering activities during their annual gathering in November. The ANU CECS will also run a series of their outreach workshops over the 12 months.

St Nicholas of Myra is competing in the Destination Imagination Global finals being held in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Kennedy Space Station Space Camp.

St John The Apostle Catholic Parish School (St Johns) is sending sixty senior primary school students in years 6 and 7 to Questacon in Canberra for immersion in STEM activities at nationally significant public institutions over 4 days.

Intensive science engagement practicals in Chemistry and Physics at Greene's Tutorial College, Oxford England.

3 students and a mentor will be visiting the Silicon Valley, California and presenting at the TYE Global Finals in Washington DC in June 2018.

An Incubator Support Initiative Expert-in-Residence grant has been awarded to organise and provide access to top quality research, managerial and technical talent through secondments of national or international expert advisers who will improve the chance of commercial success for start-ups in international markets.

Armadale Senior High School compete in the South Pacific Regional First Robotics Competition in Sydney.