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SUMMARY:Robogals Science Challenge 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Robogals Science Challenge is an Australia-wide science competition for girls. It enables participants to learn more about science and engineering by conducting projects or experiments with a friend\, parent\, or another mentor. \nEntries to the competition are submitted online in the form of videos\, photos and writing in three age categories. The competition will spans four months\, with the best 12 participants awarded for their efforts at the end of the year.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/robogals-science-challenge-2019/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lillian Wang":MAILTO:lillian@robogals.org
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SUMMARY:UNSW Bragg Student Science Writing Prize
DESCRIPTION:Write a short essay on ‘Not-so-smart technology’ and you could win a fantastic set of prizes\, including publication in Australia’s top science magazines\, a $500 UNSW Bookshop voucher\, a subscription to the Australian Book Review and a trip to the Bragg Prize award ceremony and book launch of The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 in Sydney in November. \nBest of all\, every school will receive an entry prize!
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/unsw-bragg-student-science-writing-prize-2/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heather Catchpole":MAILTO:heather@refractionmedia.com.au
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SUMMARY:Create It Comp
DESCRIPTION:With engineers\, anything is possible! To celebrate Engineers Australia’s 100th birthday\, we are encouraging Australians to think about how engineering has helped them in all parts of their lives. \nSo\, if anything is possible and you had unlimited time\, money\, help\, and skill\, what would you engineer? Show us your creation\, and you have a chance to win an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil! \n\nThink it  Think about your life\, and the life of the people around you\, and show us what problem you can solve\, or what idea you can come up with to make life easier. It could be big or small\, helful of fun\, or a mix of these.\nCreate it Draw\, paint\, build\, or design your idea. You could use paints\, pencils\, a computer program like PhotoShop\, cardboard\, or even Lego! It could be a simple\, quick sketch or very detailed – it’s up to you.\nShare it Share your idea with us for a chance to win an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. We have a category for both primary and high school students\, as well as adults – teachers and parents can enter too!\n\nCheck out our website for tips and Terms and Conditions. \nEntries close 30 September 2019.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/create-it-comp/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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ORGANIZER;CN="Teone Nutt":MAILTO:tnutt@engineersaustralia.org.au
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SUMMARY:Who do you think you are? Philosophy\, neuroscience and the nature of consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Associate Professor Nao Tsuchiya & Dr Jennifer Windt\nWe are all intimately acquainted with our conscious thoughts\, feelings\, memories\, imaginings and even dreams. Yet consciousness remains one of the biggest mysteries of the human brain. \nHuman consciousness\, our perception of what exists as well as our thoughts\, feelings\, imaginings and dreams has attempted to be understood by philosophers through conceptual analysis and thought experiments. Neuroscientists have sought to describe it as a biological process of neuronal activity captured by measurable tests of brain activity.  Increasingly\, philosophers and neuroscientists are also joining forces in interdisciplinary consciousness science. \nConsensus is elusive. Do we experience consciousness only while we are awake? Do other animals experience consciousness? Does it fade after brain damage? Are intelligent computers conscious? Is consciousness a process?  What is it for? \nWe have invited a neuroscientist and philosopher to share their research and perspectives on consciousness and to provide some guidance on these questions. \nThe Speakers:\n\nAssociate Professor Naotsuga Tsuchiya\nTowards the physical basis of consciousness\nOur subjective conscious experience is supported by neural activities in the brain. Although questions about consciousness have puzzled humanity for centuries\, an empirical scientific research program\, which aims to identify the neural correlates of consciousness\, has started relatively recently\, only a few decades ago. As such\, we are still far from answering the fascinating questions about consciousness\, such as: Can we tell unconscious people from conscious ones\, just based on neural activity in the brain? Is each one of us consciously experiencing the world in the same way – Can we determine if my “red” color sensation is the same as yours\, based on neural measures? Do newborn babies\, animals\, insects\, plants and future artificial intelligence have consciousness? In this talk\, I will discuss recent progress on scientific research on onsciousness\, which paves possible ways to address these seemingly philosophical questions with empirical neuroscientific methods. In the future we may arrive at the theory of consciousness to answer these questions. \nDr Tsuchiya was awarded a PhD at California Institute of Technology in 2006. In 2012\, he joined the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University as an Associate Professor. His main research interest is to uncover the physical basis of consciousness. Specifically\, he focuses on:\n1) the scope and limit of non-conscious processing\,\n2) the relationship between attention and consciousness\,\n3) the neuronal correlates of consciousness and\n4) testing a theory of consciousness\, in particular\, integrated information\ntheory of consciousness. Combining empirical\, computational and theoretical research methods through interdisciplinary collaborations\, he hopes to solve to the problem of consciousness. \nDr Jennifer Windt\nHow sleep and dream research are revolutionizing our understanding of our conscious minds\nWhat happens to conscious experience as we slip from wakefulness into sleep and dreams? Do we dream throughout the night\, or are parts of sleep unconscious? How do fluctuations in sleep- related experience align with different sleep stages? And what do these changes tell us about consciousness? In my talk\, I’ll review findings from the science of sleep and dreaming and argue that in many ways\, they are revolutionizing our understanding of sleep and its relation to consciousness; they also require us to rethink the relation between sleep and wakefulness as well as new methodologies for their investigation. Sleep is not a period of uniform passivity and rest characterized by a loss of consciousness. Instead\, sleep is heterogeneous\, active\, and teems with different kinds of experience. Investigating how changes in conscious experience\, including dreaming\, arise from local changes in brain activity promises to enrich our image of our minds. It can also help identify the neural correlates of conscious experience and may shed light on the minimal requirements for subjective experience. \nJennifer M. Windt is a lecturer in philosophy and senior research fellow at Monash University. Her research centers on philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. She is particularly interested in mental states in which we disengage from ongoing tasks and the environment. These include mind wandering and spontaneous thought in wakefulness\, but also dreaming and other sleep-related experiences as well as sleep-wake transitions. Her research is informed by empirical research findings and interdisciplinary collaborations. She is the author of Dreaming (2015\, MIT) and together with Thomas Metzinger edited Open MIND (2016\, MIT; an open access version is available at open-mind.net). She is currently working on a research project on mind wandering across the sleep-wake cycle funded by the Australian Research Council. \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\nPresented by the Convergence Science Network. \n 
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/who-do-you-think-you-are/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Monash Biomedical Imaging\, 770 Blackburn Road\, Clayton\, Victoria\, 3800\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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