What we do:

  • Science Activity sectional meeting nights for Joeys, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers, anywhere, anytime.
  • Achievement badge task setting and testing on Radio and Science subjects.
  • Advice and practical help for J.O.T.A. weekend activity bases and electronic kits.
  • Help you organize a J.O.T.A. radio and Internet base in your District.

    Some meeting night themes:

  • ARCS & SPARKS:
    Electrostatics, Magnets and magnetic fields, making electric current, electric motors, Cells and Batteries what's inside, make a lemon battery.
  • SECRET AGENT: Codes, and Morse codes, Semaphore game, decrypting secret messages with a code generator wheel, puzzles, signalling and "who done it".
  • LIGHT & SMOKE: Flashing coloured lights, mixing coloured lights, polarized light shows stress in plastic objects, optical illusions, unbend a distorted picture with a cylindrical mirror, catch the ball under strobe light, sound gun makes giant smoke rings and blows out a candle at 20 paces.
  • SOLAR HEAT: Build a solar cooker and bake your lunch, solar water still makes fresh water out of foul, solar steam engine, use solar cells to run an amplifier, talk over a sun beam, make your own hike metho burner out of a drink can.
  • BLAST OFF: Water rockets are fun on a hot day, or even higher with discburst compressed air rocket, measure how high they go.

    For bookings contact:

    John Leahy at: john.leahy@measurement.gov.au ph (W)028 467 3592 (H) 024 572 1549