CENTRAL Victorian secondary students were given a taste of the weird and wonderful world of science yesterday.
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Girton Grammar, Gisborne, Rochester, Bendigo South East and Eaglehawk secondary colleges attended the Get into Science day at Bendigo’s Discovery Science and Technology Centre.
About 125 year 9 and 10 students took part in practical workshops led by La Trobe University staff visiting the centre from the Bendigo, Albury/Wodonga and Bundoora campuses. Workshops included electronic and civil engineering, pharmacy, freshwater ecology, information technology and physics.
Participants were given the opportunity to try hands-on experiments and watch live shows.
Centre manager Lisa Gormley said the aim of the program was to get students thinking about a career in the sciences.
“The objective of the day is to reinforce that the work involved in studying science and mathematics subjects, which often have the reputation of being ‘too hard’, is a worthwhile undertaking as it opens doors to a plethora of fascinating career choices.”
Ms Gormley said the event, in its fourth year, had undergone a change in direction in recent years to focus on a younger generation of potential scientists.
“We wanted to get kids to start thinking earlier and where they might want to take it,” she said.