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VickyWall


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Hey everyone, If anyone is around Normanton on Thursday please drop in to the library (Cnr Landsborough and Caroline St) and say hi 11:30 - 1:30. (we'll be putting on lunch too!!)

We're here in Normanton for the week teaching science at the high school as a part of National Science Week.

We thought we'd also put on a bit of an interactive microbiology display at the library - showing off some agar plates the kids at the school have inoculated.

A little bit about myself and my co-host.

My name is Vicky and I'm a third year Medical Laboratory Science student at QUT. I grew up in Cairns and now work in a histology laboratory in Brisbane - so if you ever want to know anything about the process behind diagnosing cancers then come and have a talk to me! I'm going to have heaps of examples of tissues for you to have a look at down the microscope as well. :)

Co-host is Ray and he is a Chartered Engineer doing a PhD in flow dynamics involved in heart bypass surgery! So if you have kids/grandkids interested in becoming an engineer then please stop by and ask him about all the amazing career opportunities.

 

Hopefully we'll see you at the library! 



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Mike Harding


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Sadly, I am at the other end of the country currently otherwise I would be there.

Are you going to show them how to blow things up? That's always the best way to get children interested in science I have found :)



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Good Stuff Vicky and I wish you luck. Before I retired I attended many shows with the Bureau of Met trying to get the science message through...we rarely noticed any 'immediate' results but figured maybe we'd planted the seed.

Good Luck.

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VickyWall


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:( unfortunately we're not blowing anything up. hahaha I wiiiish we could!!


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