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Science mini conference in Cairns 2015

Science mini conference in cairns featuring Miss Vivi and Rockhoundz

Road trip!  Woot!

Save The Date: 29 & 30 June 2015

Cairns science mini-conference for lab techs and teachers at Cairns SHSeventbritebutton

Registration now OPEN!  Click here to register



Cairns science mini-conference for lab techs and teachers 2015

Featuring an Australian first: toad euthanasia workshop

Workshops include:
* How to get away with murder: hands on toad euthanasia workshop using the current approved CO2 protocol
* Dissection session – send us your specimen requests now! Hearts? Piglets?
* Anatomy and physiology classroom activities
* Classroom experiments to make earth science fun and interesting
* Rock identification
* Microfossils and foraminifera
* Tag-along tour of local geology sites that you can turn into your own school excursion
* Drinks and networking session on Monday afternoon

If you have an idea for a session or would like to run one on another topic then feel free to get in touch.

Cost will be kept to a minimum to cover consumables and catering.
This is an ideal opportunity to get good quality PD right in your own backyard, so please encourage your colleagues to come along. Don’t forget to share this invitation with your local network as well – we don’t know everyone, it just feels like it!




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Proudly sponsored by Dissection Connection and Rockhoundz

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Funny bone: the geeks shall inherit the earth

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Photo: Kiah Krassey

Science is serious stuff, right?  WRONG!

Behold the new lab freezer in a South Australian school!  Purpose bought to hold more of our incredible specimens so they can save on delivery costs and macabrely decorated by the incredibly funny lab tech.  How brilliantly cool is that?  For those of you that don’t recognise the pop culture reference on the sign -> go and read up on Officer Friendly and his band of merry men.

I don’t know where the traditional image of the mild mannered, white coated, serious minded scientist came from.  Over the years I’ve met and worked with some of the wackiest, funniest and weirdest people you’re ever likely to meet and they’ve all been brilliant minds of science.

Make no mistake, Vivsters, the geeks shall inherit the earth.  And when they do it’s going to be one big liquid nitrogen ice-cream making party.  Woot!

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April 13, 2015

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Dissection Connection draws some attention

Dissection Connection featured on edgecustom.com.au

Dissection Connection featured on edgecustom.com.au

“If a small B2B business in Gympie can master content marketing, ask yourself this: Can you really claim not to have the brand, the resources and the wherewithal to use content marketing to get your stories out and engage more customers? With almost 2.1 million SMBs in Australia, your next industry disruptor is likely already out there. (If it’s Debra Cook, all bets are off. Sorry.)”

Read more… Dissection Connection profiled on edgecustom.com.au – July 2014

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DIY Papercraft Skull from Skull-A-Day

papercraft skull made with free printable from skull-a-day

Despite being a bit like Penny from The Big Bang Theory when it comes to craft I do like to have a go from time to time.  As long as it is easy, doesn’t involve waiting around too much for glue or paint to dry or a special trip to the shops I’m usually up for it.

Enter the DIY Papercraft Skull with Articulated Jaw from Skull-A-Day.  TaDa!

papercraft skull made with free printable from skull-a-day
papercraft skull made with free printable from skull-a-day

It’a as easy as:

  1. Download here –> skull-a-day
  2. Print
  3. Cut out
  4. A little sticky tape here, a little there
  5. Assemble and run around the house snapping the jaws and making Unh Unh Unh noises

I reckon this has got end of year classroom activity written all over it.  Add a bit of glitter, felt and cotton wool and you’d have yourself a Snapping Santa Skull.

Send photos!

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Nov 5, 2014