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Events
18 February 2011
Continium – Discovery Center Kerkrade
Museumplein 2
6461 MA
Kerkrade
Netherlands
NL
On Saturday, the 19th of February 2011, the Benelux Finale of the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) will take place in Discovery Center Continium in Kerkrade (NL). Over 300 teams of children between 8 and 15 participated in the various regional finales of the FLL in the Netherlands and Belgium. Of these 300 eams eventually 40 teams managed to place themselves for the grand Benelux Finale. They will prepare their selfbuild robots for the challenge of making it to the Europena Finale.
5 November 2010 - 8 May 2011
Scitech
Sutherland Street
Perth
Australia
AU
Picture 20,000 individual LED lights illuminating a tunnel that you can walk through. Now imagine being able to manipulate those lights to follow your every movement.
19 November 2010 - 5 March 2011
Museon
Stadhouderslaan 37
NL-2517 HV
The Hague
Netherlands
NL
This year’s winning and commended images are on show at Museon. More than 100 prize-winning photographs from 18 competition categories are displayed in large format.
6 December 2010 - 8 December 2010
Biliotheca Alexandrina
Chatby
Alexandria
Egypt
EG
More than 120 participants from 10 Arab countries are scheduled to participate in Intel Science Competition Arab World (ISC-AW), which is the Arabic version of Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held in the United States every year (Intel ISEF). Contestants from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia und the United Arab Emirates will showcase their distinguished science projects in various scientific and social specializations to compete for financial awards totaling $20,000 and scholarships from top Arab universities.
23 April 2010 - 24 April 2010
Archeoclub
Camerino
Italy
IT
“Courtyards in bloom” has been organized by Archeoclub – Camerino section, in collaboration with the University Natural Science Museum, the Civic Museum, The University Botanical Garden, the Municipality and the Local Trade Association.
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina Planetarium Science Center
23 June 2016
Eratosthenes is the Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, who made the first measurement of the size of Earth. The Festivity includes a series of activities, designed for preparatory school students, revolving around the methodology used in measuring the Earth’s circumference 2000 years ago.
Tekniska museet , International Centre for Life
9 June 2016
This year, Ecsite members were competing for the Ecsite Strategic Partnership Award, recognising extraordinary collaboration between an Ecsite member and an external partner
Experimentarium
1 June 2016
Nils Hornstrup, Senior Science Consultant and former Deputy Director of Experimentarium has passed away on May 17th 2016 following a very brief illness.
Science Museum Group
15 May 2016
Launched by the Science Museum London ahead of the Museum's major Robots exhibition opening in February 2017.
International Centre for Life
6 May 2016
Having set up and run one of the UK’s leading science centres for the past 16 years, Linda Conlon is heading to China to share her knowledge with the country’s growing science centre industry.
Linda Conlon, MBE, Chief Executive of Newcastle’s International Centre for Life and Chair of the Association of Science and Technology Centres, ASTC, the global body representing science centres and museums, is heading to China to advise the country’s science centre industry on how to establish and maintain audiences through engaging science communication.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Planetarium Science Center
5 May 2016
As usual at this time of the year, the Planetarium Science Center at Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens registration for its Summer Program, for school students, ages 4-16. the program takes place during the period from May 22 to September 8 2016.
The program offers a variety of scientific activities, including a group of selected scientific workshops carefully designed to attract students and make learning an enjoyable experience.
International Centre for Life
25 April 2016
A new exhibition at the Life Science Centre will help us understand what’s going on inside our heads.
The Brain Zone, a new exhibition telling the story of the brain and how it works, revealing some of its secrets and exploring the techniques scientists use to study it, has opened at the Life Science Centre.
The exhibition was funded by the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest biomedical research charities in the world and was officially opened by its Chair, Baroness Manningham-Buller.
Swiss Science Center Technorama
30 March 2016
Former Technorama Director Remo Besio passed away on 14 March at the age of 75. An obituary by Michel Junge, Director of phaeno (Wolfsburg, Germany), who worked with him at Technorama for more than 10 years.
Copernicus Science Centre
30 March 2016
http://ips2016.org/registration Don't wait any longer!!!
Dear Colleagues,
Make sure you register by March 30th to benefit from the early bird rates for the IPS 2016 Conference (June 19-23).
REGISTER NOW!
Territoire de Sciences
22 March 2016
La Casemate is one of the partners of the "Sciences and Mountains Film Festival" that will be taking place for the third time next November in Grenoble, France. Organisers are looking for scientists and directors.