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Find out more about socials At YSA, we love to catch up with each other. Luckily our amazing Socials team are working hard to bring us a social every single month. Check out one of the many socials scheduled for this year by clicking below.

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At YSA, we are a group of young Australians aged 15-25 who share a common passion for science, and science communication. Not everyone studies science at school or university, and not everyone's a nerd (Although some of us are!!).

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Are you a parent, university, sponsor or journalist? All of you guys play an important part in supporting the work that YSA does, so we have created a separate section for you guys to give you the information you need.

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Musos share their passion for science

Privacy and security – Who needs them anyway?

This year marks the 31th anniversary of the first mobile phone in Australia. Ten years later, in the Swiss headquarters of CERN, the Computer Scientist Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web.

Despite the relative ‘youth’ of these technologies, it is hard to imagine a world without them. They are fundamental. They have changed the way we interact forever. They have changed the way we communicate, the way we work and the way we relax.

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HSC Chemistry help video project

Dear YSA,

 

We are starting a project to create HSC chemistry help videos. If you are interested in helping out we will have an information and planning day on the 3rd of February. It is preferred if you have completed HSC chemistry and we primarily need people for script writing and experiment preparation but regardless of your ability, interests or knowledge we will strive to find a place for you to help if you are interested.

 

The planning day will run from 10am-4pm at USyd starting with icebreakers and a brainstorming session followed by an instructional session on how the scripts should be laid out and finishing with being sorted into groups and roles in the project. If you do come to the planning day and decide the project is not for you then you are welcome to opt out then. Alternatively if you can’t make it to the training day but wish to be involved in the project let me know and we will find a place for you.

 

To RSVP email brett_hopp@hotmail.com or text or call me on 0406 785 562.

The meeting point will be the courtyard outside the Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre building. If you get a chance to talk to any chemistry teachers about areas students tend to struggle with before we meet it would be useful.

 

Much science,

 

Brett Hoppenbrouwer

TSE Students!


Were you a TSE student from 2012? Awesome. Feel free to check out our website, and find out more about us.

If you are looking to get an email with the details for our Post-TSE event, please click here to register for updates.

For all membership forms, please send to :  Y.S.A. Sydney Inc., PO Box 6169, UNSW, Australia 1466

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Promoting Science to the youth of Australia!

Our Aim

We are a group of young people aged 14-26 with a shared interest in and enthusiasm for science, and dedication to the promotion and awareness of science in a friendly social environment.

Our motto, “Promoting Science to the Youth of Australia”, indicates our aim – to share our love of science with the rest of Australia’s young population, through the provision of enthusiastic staff for science schools throughout the country, and training our members as effective science communicators through performing science shows.

In addition to this business side of things, we hold regular social events such as bushwalks, balls, dinners and excursions to provide our members with a comfortable place to unleash their inner nerd – and their outer nerd, if they so choose. See “YSA Membership” for more information about joining us.

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