STEMpunkPodcast

 n = 61In this episode, Tom interviews Paul Looyen, Teacher, YouTube educator and trivia genius about Physics teaching, science education and photography. You can find Paul most places as @physicshighYouTube WebsiteInstagramTwitter Paul answered the question that Alice Gorman asked about artworks and asked his own here.What is one biggest roadblock for student engaging in science at High School and what is the solution to that?Call to action:Photography...

n = 60 STEMpunk was given an incredible opportunity, to run an event for the Vivid Ideas festival called Significant Figures, where we interviewed a wonderful scientist with a panel or more excellent scientists, or significant figures! The panel of significant figures, Ivy Shih, Corey Tutt and Kirsten Banks, was to interview through games and questions, a mystery science guest, Associate Professor Tanya Latty from the University of Sydney, BUT... it was cancelled...

n = 59 Dr Space Junk In this episode, Tom interviews Alice Gorman about the usual things like how you got involved in STEM and Space Archeology. We talked about her beginnings, some actuall space archeology and most importantly, we left plenty unsaid for the next time we get Alice back on the podcast! You can Find Alice most places as @drspacejunk Alice Answered the question that Matthew asked about going to Mars, (which was a great answer!) and asked her own here...

Well, it is not exactly rocket sci...., Actually, it IS exactly rocket science n = 58 In this episode, Tom interview Matthew D'Souza about the usual things as well as his recent win at the SpacePort America Cup.  This was a great episode with a young superstar of Science and engineering. This really is exactly rocket science! The Universioty of Sydney Rocketry Team won first place at Spaceport America Cup for the 10,000 ft Commercial Off The shelf Category...

Shane, a microphone and Zeeshan. n = 57 What does Genetics, Boston, and being president have in common? In this episode of STEMpunk, Shane sits down with Zeeshan Siddiqui in chatting about his passions from his research in bioinformatics to inspirations about being a science communicator. Zeeshan is an honours student in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) at UNSW Sydney...

Dr Abigail Fraeman, Shane Hengst, Liz Landau, Tom Gordon, Dr Sarah Reeves. n = 56  On Tuesday 16 July 2019, STEMpunk went back to Wayward Brewery and were joined by special NASA guests for an evening of Planets and Parables. Dr Abigail Fraeman (Planetary Scientist) and Liz Landau (Science Story teller) and Dr Sarah Reeves (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) were the stars of a live recording of the STEMpunk podcast to mark 50 years since the Moon landing...

n = 55 Action shot of Mitch being interviewed In this episode, Tom interviews Mitch Gibbs from the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Science. Mitch studies Oysters and climate change. In Mitch's words, in this case, "climate change is not good, but not as horrifying as you'd think." After a very quick intro,Mitch and I chatted about indigenous science and then we went on to other topics like Marvel and black holes...

We started STEMpunk a couple of years ago, perhaps we should have done this sooner! n=54 This was a great episode, it was a chance for the STEMpunks (Tom, Christie and Shane) to talk about some really essential stuff like...  Who is our Audience? Rule 1 of a podcast should be defining who your audience is, up till now it has been just.....

n=53 Annie Handmer. Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist, Ethicist, Scientist. In this episode, Tom interviews Annie Handmer from the University of Sydney's School of History and Philosophy of Science. Annie studies things such as international science projects to figure out how people do science together. It's a fascinating topic.  This is one of those episodes that really felt too short...

Thumbs up Corey! n=52In this episode, Tom interviews rising star Corey Potter-Tutt. We talked a lot about indigenous Science, brain food, animals and their superpowers and Camelids!  A great episode where I feel like I learnt a lot from a different perspective on science communication. I was totally impressed at the work that Corey is doing, sending Science books to Indigenous schools...