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Education & Outreach
FLEET shares a responsibility to improve Australians’ engagement with science. Through its FLEET Schools and Public Outreach programs, we want to inspire and engage students and teachers at all levels, and the public about FLEET’s research, and to think critically about its value and application in society.
FLEET Schools: Here you will find home science activities, incursion/excursion opportunities, and student/teacher resources on curriculum-aligned topics that include critical thinking and hands-on activities, slides and worksheets;
Public outreach: FLEET heads out to engage the community through interactive exhibits at public events. FLEET has a pool of experts for public events, community talks. Evaluation reports of most of our outreach activities can be found here.
Learn more about FLEET research, education and outreach at
Ask the Physicists Facebook page.
FLEET’s facebook.com/FLEETCentre
FLEET’s YouTube channel.
Contact us education@fleet.org.au
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FLEET AI Prof Sue Coppersmith (UNSW) kicked off her AIP Woman in Physics national tour this month in Victoria. Sue introduced over 250 students, teachers and public to the life of a theoretical physicist at five events around Melbourne. The busy three day schedule included: A public lecture at RMIT aimed at a physics-savvy public audience. Girls in Physics breakfast …
FLEET took a road trip to Horsham in regional Victoria to introduce 100 Year 8 and 9 students to quantum physics and the colourful world of light. Year 8 students participated in range of hands-on activities such as the famous ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ visual illusion, and playing with lasers and prisms to understand reflection and refraction. Meanwhile Year 9 students took …
The public’s awe of FLEET’s levitating superconductor and engaging dialogue with FLEET at the 2023 Sydney Science Trail enabled a shift in public understanding about how society uses digital technology and a call for a socially responsible digital future. FLEET was one of more than 20 science organisations engaging audiences with interactive exhibits at the Sydney Science Trail Expo, developed …
Learning about ‘wavy’ stuff you can’t see, smell, taste or touch can test students’ intuitive understanding of the world. FLEET’s latest Forces and Energy teacher resource examines energy from the physics of Newton to Einstein, to the wavy behaviour of sub-atomic particles such as electrons. Students learn how energy is crucial to our understanding of how everything in the universe …
Teaching energy, releasing creativity, and inspiring future scientists FLEET and Monash volunteers used catapults, graphite circuits and diffraction goggles to create challenges for 250 Mater Christi College students competing to win their annual STEM Cup. For the STEM Cup challenge, which is judged on teamwork, innovation and communication, FLEET designed two hands-on workshops that got middle and senior secondary students …