Science Minister Melissa Price announces Science Week grants, which go to projects that “show us how much we use science in our everyday life”

Total funding is only $500 000 which won’t ever pay to service a quantum thingatron but education teams still applied, including;

* ANU’s “surprising, accessible and compelling examples of everyday mathematics”

* the National Indigenous Science Education Programme’s four-day celebration of “traditional and contemporary Indigenous knowledge in science and technology” in Redfern, Sydney

* a mobile-lab demonstration of the effect of heart and kidney disease, travelling the Northern Territory, from the Menzies School of Health Research

* what to feed one’s butterflies from the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary 

*  Uni Adelaide’s ideas for an urban forest

* Uni Tas research projects across the state

* a road trip by the Dark Matter Particle Physics centre (the one in the ex-goldmine at Stawell)

* practical chemistry at Edith Cowan U