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For all information and updates, visit the Australian Science Innovations website at www.asi.edu.au.
Also, the Asian Physics Olympiad Adelaide 2019 website at http://apho2019.asi.edu.au/
Resources and Programs
available through the Royal Institution of Australia
The call will be for students who are at the end of their undergraduate physics honours programs. International students who studied physics in any Asian languages before coming to Australia may be particularly interested.
There will be events running throughout the week to celebrate physics, so keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved, and encourage your physics students to get involved where possible. There may be chances to have some of the Olympiad students visit local schools.
Most importantly, a huge thank you to SA science teachers for the great response to getting students involved with the first round competition this year. In a recent article, one of our SA students who represented Australia in 2009 explained how the experience challenged her to realise her potential even though she did not initially feel that she would be ‘good enough’. Keep up the great work entering students into these competitions every year, encouraging your top students to challenge themselves – they may be surprised at what they can achieve! ASI runs Olympiad exams in Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science and Physics, and
the AMT runs Olympiads in Mathematics and Informatics. It would be great for one legacy of Adelaide’s hosting of the 2019 Asian Physics Olympiad to be a permanent increase in the number of SA schools involved in the Olympiads each year!
Hilary Jones, Education Specialist
T he Royal Institution of Australia plays a special role in bringing science to the
public, helping people of all ages engage with and relate to the world around them.
We strongly take the view that science is
not just a series of facts and formulae to be remembered. It is about history and discovery and stories of human endeavour. Most importantly, it is about understanding what makes our modern world possible.
One of our most important roles is helping schools bring their science curriculum to life, and inspire the next generation of scientists, by providing complementary resources
and new perspectives for students and for teachers.
Our Education Specialist, Hilary Jones, has developed a comprehensive suite of options,
ranging from web resources to professional development programs for teachers and incursion or excursion workshops showing students the relevance of STEM to potential future careers.
The most easily accessible is the education. australiascience.tv portal, which provides up-to-date science news to help give context to science studies. The articles and videos are supported by questions teachers can pose to students about the relevance of the topic and what it means to society and to them personally. What careers would this information affect?
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