Museums & Education Follow Us: Comments 0 Museums & Education About All about museum education and the thoughts behind public exhibitions at the Australian Museum! Ellie Downing is the Manager for Science Engagement and Events at the Australian Museum and has been involved in science engagement and content creation for many years in the museum sector. Listen in as we chat during the busy lead up to the Australian Museum Science Festival. More Information About the FizzicsEd Podcast About Ellie Downing Managing the Science Engagements and Events (SEE) team at the Australian Museum, Ellie helps deliver a suite of events and activities within the museum as well as beyond through the Sydney Science Festival, Science on the Road outreach initiatives and other education events. 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All about museum education and the thoughts behind public exhibitions at the Australian Museum! Ellie Downing is the Manager for Science Engagement and Events at the Australian Museum and has been involved in science engagement and content creation for many years in the museum sector. Listen in as we chat during the busy lead up to the Australian Museum Science Festival.
About Ellie Downing Managing the Science Engagements and Events (SEE) team at the Australian Museum, Ellie helps deliver a suite of events and activities within the museum as well as beyond through the Sydney Science Festival, Science on the Road outreach initiatives and other education events. Ellie also is heavily in community science engagement and is the current secretary for the Australian Citizen Science Association’s (ACSA) Management Committee whose mission is to advance citizen science through advocacy, collaboration, sharing of knowledge and capacity building. Further Links Australian Museum Check out the 2018 Sydney Science Festival Australian Citizen Science Association
About the FizzicsEd Podcast With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It’s not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it’s about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world!
Hackathons truly accelerate innovation and Melanie De Gioia very much has an understanding of what makes them work!
Getting a gig at a major science museum can be highly competitive. We chat with Karen Player, Manager for Museum Outreach at the Australian Museum, who began her museum career in 1998 when she began volunteering on the museum floor. Plus we look at what it was like as an...
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