My youngest son Daniel has been on the news over the last couple of days. He has invented an artificial heart that will soon be trialled in humans in Houston Texas.
Science technicians are integral to their department. ‘Effective technician support comes in a variety of forms,’ states a recent report on the reduced technician workforce by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER). commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
School laboratories are places where constant change and the evolution of technology and new understandings of the natural world transform student learning.
In March 2019, a student sustained serious burns and a staff member minor burns during a school science experiment when methylated spirits was applied to an open flame. A second student’s uniform caught fire, but it was extinguished without causing injury.
Across the country, Laboratory Technicians are working hard in Australian schools to support Science Teachers with important lesson preparation. This involves organising materials, mixing chemicals, calibrating and maintaining test equipment plus much more.
Dr John Elfick from UQ’s School of Education maintains the School Science Lessons site which contains useful information for school laboratory technicians and links experiments to equipment sold by the […]
A science fair at a Victorian school required the attendance of the fire department Hazmat team following a parent/student demonstration produced chlorine gas with two people requiring medical attention. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/school-science-experiment-gone-wrong-sends-children-and-parent-to-hospital-20160816-gqtk6t.html
La Salle College Bankstown staff member Margaret Croucher has received a Parliament of NSW Award in recognition of her volunteer work over recent decades in helping to set up a state professional association for science education technicians in NSW.