5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blast Off for National Science Week

Today was an exciting day for Google Australia. We are thrilled to partner with National Science Week to launch the National Science Tour. In honour of the launch, today we hosted in our offices NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, astrophysicist and indigenous astronomy expert Ray Norris, high school students from St Andrews Cathedral College, science teachers, and science writers.





At Google we're passionate about advancing science in Australia and inspiring students to study science, maths and engineering because we believe that these will be the important and sexy jobs of the future. These fields will allow you to pursue your passions, to think big, and to progress Australia and the world.

Today we were certainly inspired to think big as we heard the awesome space travel experiences of Astronaut McArthur, fresh from her May space mission on the STS-125 deployment that serviced the Hubble Telescope.

Astrophysicist Ray Norris wowed us with explanations of black holes and explored the possibility that Aboriginal Australians were the world’s first astronomers.

If you're interested in learning more about science and astronomy (it is International Year of Astronomy and Evolution), here are some great places to start:
www.scienceweek.gov.au
www.starhunt.net.au
earth.google.com/sky/
earth.google.com/moon/

Posted by Alan Noble, Head of Engineering