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Many thanks to the team from UNSW Canberra for their awesome fun session on orbital mechanics and the curving of Space Time🌌⏳. The challenges were extremely enjoyable! One team even managed to keep their planet (ping pong ball) in orbit for over 4 minutes!

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This is how many students woke up early to see the International Space Station🛰 flyover on the first morning of camp. Over half the students!!! We also obseeved Saturn and Jupiter...

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Did we mention that we also built Rovers 🚜 from scratch?... This activity challenged the our squad to decipher instructions 📝, work together as a team and troubleshoot🔃 any problems encountered to build a rover that they would then operate.✔

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We spent our morning today at Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex. This place is home to the radio telescope "Dish" (Deep space station 46) that received the video footage from the Moon Landings. We... https://t.co/ukfGe60IyJ

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An awesome afternoon learning about Spectra and the Identification of Elements in stars. Wr also made our own spectroscopes to take photos of elemental specta. Here we have our two student winners Elliot and... https://t.co/9IfKf6mKLf

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Today we had the awesome team from OzGrav - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery come and run a fantastic Virtual Reality session with us

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Looking forward to everyone else arriving this morning for our April Space Squad Program. Our early arrivers managed to do some star gazing 🔭☀️, looking at The Sun with an 8inch dobsonian telescope with a solar filter. Check out that Sun Spot!!

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Applications for Scholarships close this Sunday the 31st of April. Applications will be reviewed on Monday and Successful applicants will be notified by Tuesday. Good luck to all our applicants

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YMCA Space Squad Alumni Hey Space Squadders...ince 1984, more than 12,000 young Australians have progressed through the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) Year 12 Program (including those run under the organisation’s previous banner, the National... https://t.co/4jYcrOj7Me

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🚀🚀🚀APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR VOLUNTEERS ON OUR SPACE SQUAD PROGRAMS🚀🚀🚀

If you are over 18 and have a passion for all things space and science we want you! Come join us on Australia's only residential program dedicated to... https://t.co/4ZoHCrhBy0

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⭐️⭐️💫APPLICATIONS FOR OUR APRIL SPACE SQUAD ARE NOW OPEN!!!!!!💫⭐️⭐️

If you are in years 6-9 and have a Passion for Space Please follow the link below to submit your application for a week of space and science fun that is out of this world https://t.co/X06gJOpxG3

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This morning we have the opportunity to watch a weather balloon launch at Mt Stromlo! https://t.co/uvLHbbf7Rl

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Stay tuned for a balloon launch at Mount Stromlo with Brad Tucker and Ryan Ridden.

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Cosmos story time with Matt https://t.co/mPLP3a19in

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Cosmos story time with Matt https://t.co/2n6kQG7jPS

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Mechanical Computing with Turing Tubmbles! https://t.co/Z90NaPdrcJ

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Making Telescopes! https://t.co/veRqm4fDpI

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This morning we got to spend some time with Erica at CIT experimenting with Dichroic Glass! We can't wait to see the results

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I posted a new video to Facebook https://t.co/xMgGLwTqSC

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Some more photos from our night at Questacon. Everything from learning about how a cloud chamber detects radiation to the origin of the elements, from the Big Bang to Nucleosynthesis of elements in stars and then finally the formation of elements past Iron in supernovas!