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Club Infinity is a maths-club for high school students and teachers, run by the Department of Mathematics at The University of Queensland. Membership is free within Australia, so if you are a high school student, or going into Year 8 in 2003, or if you are a teacher, and would like to join —
The Myth of Ability: Never say 'But I can't do maths!' Life
Matters with Rebecca Gorman, ABC Radio National For many parents and children, maths is one of those school subjects that you’re considered either naturally good or bad at: If you excel – we conclude you must have an innate ability with numbers. For those of us who fail – we think our brains are simply ‘not wired for maths.’
Science Event for Year Nines Some places remain for the January 20-22 Siemens Science Experience — a hands-on workshop for Year Nine students investigating careers in science, technology and engineering. The program, hosted by UQ, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and Southbank Institute of TAFE, includes lectures, experiments and excursions. To apply, visit www.scienceexperience.com.au
Cadet
Program Offers a diverse and challenging range of career opportunities for school leavers - while supporting your progress in your tertiery studies. As a cadet officer:
You can study business, administration and management, information technology (including software engineering), accounting or taxation. Visit http://www.ato.go.au/jobs to apply. Closing date NOW CLOSED
CLOSED 30 SEPTEMBER 2003 We sent you information about the Young Inventor Awards 2003 created by Far Eastern Economic Review and supported by Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific. Your school has very little time left to enter. WILL YOUR SCHOOL PRODUCE THE YOUNG INVENTOR OF THE YEAR? Last year's winning students won computer equipment, cash prizes and fame, which helped them in getting further funding. But they could not have done it without the teachers and other faculty members like you who helped them to enter the awards in the first place. To participate, you can nominate projects of your students that have done in past year or are in the process of finishing. These projects can be in any field of study - an improvement on existing medicine, computing or technology, or be a radical new invention - but they should display fresh thinking and the spirit of invention. Your students' projects will be judged together with entries from other tertiary institutions across Asia Pacific, based on their creativity, originality, feasibility and enhancing quality of life in a significant or meaningful way. A GREAT HONOR… AND GREAT PRIZES! “The award and the attendant media exposure through FEER and CNBC will help our research group to secure further funding, allowing us to continue to develop minimally invasive systems for cancer diagnosis and treatment.” -- Anthony Samir, Gold Medal Winner 2002
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION - SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 For details,
click on: http://www.feer.com/misc/young.html
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND SCHOOL
OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
earth
sciences The scholarships are designed to encourage students to enrol in the Bachelor of Science in the physical sciences fields. The School's research strengths are computational science, mathematics, statistics, laser optics, quantum computing, geology and exploration geophysics. Value:
$2,000 for one year only Applicants must be in Year 12 in 2003, and commencing study in 2004 as a first year full-time undergraduate student, enrolled for at least #12 units (6 courses) in earth sciences, mathematics or physics. Students must also apply for admission to the Bachelor of Science program at UQ through QTAC and must be awarded a place in the program. Application
forms will be available later this year on the School of Physical
Sciences website http://www.sps.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=2727&pid=2724.
Applications will close in September 2003. For further information
about these scholarships, contact Cath Carkeet in the School of
Physical Sciences, (phone 3365 6065 or email c.carkeet@sps.uq.edu.au).
GenETHICS competition: **Queensland state finals CLOSED** Secondary school
students will argue whether or not individuals or organisations
should
Widely
regarded as the world's premier algorithmic number theorist by his
contemporaries, while his
students rate him as one of the best lecturers in Berkeley —
and also one of the funniest.
QAMT Mathematical Problem Solving Competition Entries for the 2003 competition have closed Problem Solving Competition week of 31 May, 2003 The 2003 QAMT Problem Solving Competition is open to all Queensland high school students and entry is only $1 per student. The competition is administered by schools themselves and several competition stations. The recommended date for the competition is the morning of Saturday 31 May, 2003; however a time between Wednesday 28 May - Monday 2 June is fine (and even greater variation may be possible). The competition web page is http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/qamt. All papers are two hours long and consist of a mixture of multi-choice and written answers. The papers consist of problems that do not usually require any greater knowledge than that possessed by good students but will need a certain amount of ingenuity and thought for their solution. The Year 11 results are taken heavily into consideration in the choice of students to be offered places in the National Mathematics Summer School held in Canberra in January. Substantial prizes for this year will be advertised when sponsorships are finalised. There will be good prizes and cash for the winning few places in each grade. Highly Commended and Honourable Mention certificates will be awarded by the judges.
Nominations for science
prizes for 2003 have
now closed. Prime Minister's prize for
science Nominations close 5pm 26 march 2003 https://sciencegrants.dest.gov.au/scienceprize Nominations should be submitted
on-line or posted to the Science Prizes Secretariat and received
by 5pm Wednesday 26 March 2003. |
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