40 Rotarians attended a Civic Reception in the Bendigo Town Hall to kick off the 100th Anniversary celebrations. As we approach our 100th...

This week, the Girls in STEM Club returned to the Discover Science and Technology Centre for another exciting adventure into the world of aerodynamics, with next week’s experiments already on the horizon. The girls’ first challenge was simple: Does it sink, fly, hover or stick? Working in teams of two to four, they were handed scrap paper and challenged to turn it into different shapes. The creations then took flight in the wind tunnels, where the girls sorted them into the

The exciting journey through space continued this week at the Discovery Science and Technology Planetarium, where members of the Girls in STEM Club explored the fascinating planets of our Solar System. First the participants discussed the Big Bang Theory, which explains how the universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago. The girls learned that the planets formed from material surrounding the young Sun and continue to travel around it in elliptical orbits. Then they

Another exciting Tuesday at the Discovery Science and Technology Centre saw the Girls in STEM Club exploring the captivating world of forces and energy transfer. The session began with the girls revisiting their previous learning on magnetic forces and how magnets attract and repel objects. Through a series of hands-on demonstrations, the girls investigated how force and energy are transferred between objects. By observing a set of metal balls transferring motion from one e