A student gets some hands-on experience in an ANU lab during the 2012 National Youth Science Forum. Photo by Geoff Burchfield.
Australia's brightest young scientific minds have lit the Bunsen burner and flamed their passion for science at the 2012 National Youth Science Forum (NYSF), which kicked off at ANU this week. During the month of January more than 300 Year 11 students from around Australia are participating in a series of twelve-day workshops which give them hands-on experience of a career in science. Students from Germany, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand are also attending the forum. As part of NYSF 2012 students will attend specialist sessions, visit labs and hear from leading scientists and researchers at ANU. Highlights of the forum include a fossil dig, a science relay quiz and a laser light show. Students will also sit in on mock job s and take part in a senate-style enquiry about Australia's future engineering, science and technology needs. Next week students will join the search for the 'god particle', the Holy Grail of physics, through a live video cross to the Large Hadron Collider at Switzerland's CERN facility.
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