It's #ScienceWeek Downunder and #GeoscienceAustralia has a #geoscience education display at the Woden Plaza for the weekend. The displays explain how #EarthScientists use the properties of rocks like magnetism to map what is deep underground to better understand the #geology. Also a very cool display about the rocks in #Minecraft. No idea how many of you are local Canberrans, but go have a look if you can!

The centre of Australia seems to come down to ‘it depends how you measure it’. #Australia #AustraliaScience #Geoscience #GeoscienceAustralia #maps #mapsAU

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/centre-of-australia-states-territories

Day three of the #GeoscienceAustralia #geoscience #stem display at the #RoyalCanberraShow. One of the interactive display we are trialling asks kids to draw what they think is underground. We’ve had many imaginative and artistic drawings! Here are a few we have managed to capture.

An exciting day! The #GeoscienceAustralia Mobile Laboratory has its first public #STEM #outreach run at the Royal #Canberra Show from today until Sunday. If you are around please come and see us and the new interactive geoscience activities. What do *you* think is underground?

How old is #Australia? Depends on what rock you are looking at...

As a bit of #STEM related tinkering, I have created a #bot that posts a random rock age and links to associated data from the #GeoscienceAustralia #geochronology #database each day: @RandomOzChron

(Thanks to @boodoo@m.s, https://cheapbotstootsweet.com/ and https://brightspiral.com/ for the tools - any mistakes are mine alone!)

A sneak peek of something I am very excited about... We reached an exciting milestone in a #geoscience #outreach project at #GeoscienceAustralia 🎉. We took delivery of the first of a series of interactive science exhibits. These portable 'tubs' are designed in collaboration with and built by the the amazing #Questacon team 🤩.

These exhibits will be the basis for future community engagement activities in regional and remote parts of #Australia to build conversations about geoscience and the role we play in understanding how the planet works🌏.

This exhibit is currently being user tested with visiting school groups so we can see how people use it and what they take away from the experience (and nothing like a 9 year old to find ways to use the tools that you didn't expect... 😜)