Little Scientists Australia delivers a national STEM professional development program for early childhood educators and teachers working with children aged 3-6 years and has done great work as a previous grant recipient. Using Toyota funding, Little Scientists Australia will deliver workshops on STEM for educators working with young children in Wyndham and in a regional area…
Workshop images from day 2 of the Sonic Boom Early STEM conference…
Images from Sonic Boom breakout sessions including Unlocking the wonders of STEM, How to make STEM explorations sustainable and practical, Introducing STEM projects with Little Scientists accreditation and How Little Scientists aligns with EYLF and NQS…
Lisa is the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communications at UNSW Sydney. An award-winning astronomer with research interests in the birth and death of stars and supermassive black holes, she previously worked on the mega-telescope project The Square Kilometre Array – a continent-spanning next-generation radio telescope that will survey billions of years of cosmic history…
Justine is a gifted Australian entertainer with a highly accomplished career as both a stage and screen actor, as well as a best-selling musician and author. As an actor, she is known for her roles in iconic productions like Look Both Ways, Blue Dog, Maya the Bee, The Time of Our Lives, Home and Away, Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, and Hedda Gabler. Most notably, she has been a mainstay of Play School for 20 years. Host of the high-rotation ABC Kids program The Justine Clarke Show! Justine is also a chart-busting children’s music artist with platinum and gold-selling albums, two ARIA awards and multiple sell-out national tours…
The online learning module ‘STEM inquiry: Co-constructed environments for curious minds’ has been developed in partnership with Early Childhood Australia (ECA) and is now available on the ECA Learning Hub platform…
Happy Nkhonya is a scholarship recipient at Macquarie University, Department of Educational studies where he is studying for a Master’s degree in Early Childhood. Happy, is planning to be the first educator to implement STEM programming into early childhood education on his return to Malawi…
We were lucky to be able to tap into a fountain of knowledge with nature pedagogue, digital educator and special advisor for inquiry-based learning, Peggy Kessner from the Foundation “Haus der kleinen Forscher” in Germany, who visited us in Sydney in February…
Little Scientists Australia is excited and proud to announce that we have been chosen by PwC for a strategic relationship. As a not-for-profit organisation with the overarching objective of making high quality education accessible to all children we strongly identify with PwCs purpose ‘of building trust in society and solving important problems’…
The Little Scientists Project Advisory Group and Team members…