During Term 2, Jacob Goodwin (Dubbo) and Leon Corley (Glebe) were given the opportunity to represent us at the Nura Gili Science Excursion. Below is Jacob’s recount of the two day event:

Recently Leon Corley and I participated in a program run by Nura Gili at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. The program went for two days in which we took part in a number of activities involving air seed dispersal and tips on making a speech.

Throughout this program we learnt many things like what role different plants take in seed dispersal and the ecosystem, ways to start a speech and to keep the audience interested and a lot about air and the way it moves around by doing fun activities like going to the botanical gardens and playing with toys that involved air in the domain.

At this program there were a large number of students from all the different schools such as Riverview, Abotsleigh etc. which made it a lot of fun as both Leon and I made many new friends. Along with these people were the staff from Questacon who made everything we did fun and enjoyable and got us where we needed to be.

At the conclusion of this program we were told that later on in the year we will be brought back for more of these programs which I am  really looking forward to.

Thanks very much to Jacob and Leon for representing us so well and we look forward to hearing how the future events go!

Photo:  Leon Corley (Glebe) and Jacob Goodwin (Dubbo)