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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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A kidney like no other

porcine kidney with cyst

I came to work the other day to find this email waiting for me. I’m pleased to see that even when we get it wrong we sort of get it right.

“This is a shot of the dissection of one of the porcine kidneys we sourced from you. As you can see it has a cyst. It was fascinating and the girls (and the staff) learnt so much. When it was dissected, it used urine, so we assumed there was a blockage – perhaps a stone. The girls handled and felt the difference between the healthy flesh and the unhealthy. I thought you’d be interested in our lesson.”

porcine kidney with cyst
Porcine kidney with cyst

I’m not sure how we missed it when we were packing because we do check every organ that comes through, but in this case I’m glad we did.

Mr Vivi came back from a Chamber of Commerce talk the same day buzzing about this specky new machine they have at a nearby University. It allows the user to navigate and interact with all kinds of virtual environments – including body systems. I’m certain that it’s a fantastic, engaging and valuable educational tool but I’m just as certain that nothing is like experiencing the real thing in your hands.

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Apr 10, 2014

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Adam Garone: Healthier men, one moustache at a time

Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it’s for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone’s initiative to raise awareness for men’s health — by having men grow out their moustaches every November — began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it’s a worldwide movement.

Movember – changing the face of men’s health

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Movember, Mo Bros

Mo man, Mo brother-in-law, Mo dad and Mo nephew
Mo man, Mo brother-in-law, Mo dad and Mo nephew

This is the face of men’s health in my life and life just wouldn’t be the same without them.  Throughout November Miss Vivi will be supporting Movember Australia by being a Mo Sista and sporting a moustache on all our sites.

Movember is an annual charity initiative that sees the sprouting of moustaches on guys around the globe during November, in a united movement for men’s health.

Committing their top lip for 30 hairy days these men (known as Mo Bros), effectively become walking, talking billboards and through their Mo growing efforts, raise vital funds and awareness for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health.

Thanks to the support of over one million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas across 21 countries, Movember is now recognised as one of the world’s leading non-government funders of research and care programs for men’s health issues.

Miss Vivi