Last week we held three Regional Conferences across two days! A big congratulations to all of the teams who presented at our Emerald Regional Conference on 12 October.

Congratulations to the winning teams:

Year 4 - A tie! Blackwater North State School and Emerald North State School
Year 5 - Emerald North State School
Year 6 - Blackwater North State School
Year 7 - Dysart State High School
Year 8 - Dysart State High School
Year 9 - Dysart State High School

A big congratulations also to Blackwater State School who took out third place in the year 4 competition at their first WoS conference!

Thank you to representatives from Orica and GroundProbe who joined us for this conference! Our valued partners make Wonder of Science possible by supporting schools to be involved in the program across the Emerland and Bowen Basin region. Here from Lisa Cronqvist, GroundProbe Marketing Communications Coordinator, about her experience at the Regional Conference here: https://www.groundprobe.com/groundprobe-is-helping-to.../

Thank you to Emerald North State School for hosting us for the second year running!

Students also met 12 STEM researchers (Young Science Ambassadors) from QUT (Queensland University of Technology), Griffith University, University of the Sunshine Coast and The University of Queensland. Thank you to those YSAs who travelled to the Emerald and Gladstone conferences last week.

Wonder of Science will be back in Central Queensland again next year!