Your local library has some great events and they are very welcoming of home educators.
Yarra Plenty Regional Library have sent us their latest events brochures available here:
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Yarra Plenty Regional Library Events
Youth Leading the World
[ 29 November 2011 to 1 December 2011. ] HEN has been contacted with an invitation to home ed students to take part in the following event. Please contact them directly if you are interested.
My name is Amy and I am helping to coordinate Youth Leading the World, a 3-day youth environmental leadership congress being held in over 28 locations across the globe! Young people from Bangladesh, [...]
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Children’s Holiday Activity Program (CHAP)
Make new your friends at the following activities that still have vacancies…
Date
Time
Program
Ages
Cost
Location
Tuesday 27th September
9.30am – 11am
Quilling Workshop – get started with this simple craft, includes tools and take home materials
8+
$10
Iramoo Community Centre
Wednesday 28th September &
Friday 30th
September
9.30am – 12 noon; 10am –
12 noon
Make a Mosaic – create a
beautiful mosaic [...]
Tiwest Night Stalk
[ 1 September 2011 to 16 October 2011. ] Why not get involved this year and help to celebrate 2011 being the International Year of Forests?
In recognition and support for this global initiative, this year’s Tiwest Night Stalk is calling you to action and invites you to explore your local ‘forests’ and record the number of faunal species seen.
Tiwest Night Stalk runs from 1 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »ANZAAS Youth Science Conference
The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) run a Youth Conference each year which gives year 11 and 12 students the opportunity for a week of science activities. These will include visits to a variety of institutions including The University of Queensland and some of its many Institutes, Queensland University ofTechnology, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Free Maths Talk Series
[ 12 June 2011; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. 26 June 2011; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. 7 August 2011; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. 21 August 2011; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] The Mathematics Association of Victoria run a free and very entertaining series of maths talks each winter at the Melbourne Museum. This year’s topics are:
Sun Jun 12 11:30am to 12:30pm
The Problem with Probability
The Age Theatre, Melbourne Museum
Sun Jun 26 11:30am to 12:30pm
The Pyramids, the Sphinx and Other Riddles
The Age Theatre, Melbourne Museum
Sun Aug 7 11:30am [...]
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Wednesday 13th April
Key Stages in the Growth of Science
Professor Joe Monaghan
Wednesday 25th May
Food Security and Climate Change: How the Composition of Plants Could Be Di fferent in the Future
Associate Professor Ros Gleadow
Wednesday 22nd June
Myth Busting: Philosphy and Politics Talk to Science
Dr. Rob Sparrow
Wednesday 27th July
Intelligent Robots in the Real World
Professor Ray Jarvis
Wednesday 24th August
Our Dynamic Earth: [...]
Free Public Science Talks
There are free public science talks by the Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
At: Gene Technology Access Centre, 1H Royal Parade, Parkville Victoria 3052
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm once a month on Wednesdays.
Check the website below for venues and topics.
www.anzaas.org.au/vic/events.php
Free pizza and drinks provided [...]
Nature Kids Programme for Preschoolers
This is a programme run around Frankston for preschoolers which looks of interest to home ed families with young kids, see http://www.naturedkids.com.au/page2.html
for details.
Free Physics Lectures – VCE
The University of Melbourne holds a free series of physics lectures on Thursday evenings at 6pm commencing on Thursday 18th February. They serve light refreshments beforehand. For details see
http://physics.unimelb.edu.au/Community/Physics-Outreach.