A fun-tastick Science Week at Notre Dame College Shepparton

13 November 2018

Story provided by Dianne Read, Notre Dame College Shepparton

Our National Science Week 2018 grant allowed us to introduce 3 species of Stick Insects as well as Praying Mantids into our science department.

We have Goliath, Crowned and Spiny Leaf stick insects. Babies are hatching from eggs every few days now, and we plan to breed more when these babies mature.

During National Science Week 2018 many students enjoyed handling the huge Goliath stick insects, and we have formed a lunch time Funtastick Club for interested students to handle and care for them.

The Victorian Inspiring Australia program is a community-focused initiative led by the Royal Society of Victoria, in partnership with the Commonwealth Government and the State Government of Victoria.

We acknowledge the First Peoples of Victoria and the essential ancestral knowledge held, recovered and enacted by Elders. We acknowledge that this land and its millennia-old relationship with First Peoples was never ceded. We acknowledge the many injustices suffered by the knowledge keepers and Custodians of Country through the disrespectful actions and attitudes of early members of the Victorian scientific community. We express our sincere regret for the ignorance and bigotry of those who preceded us.

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