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Crystal–A–Con date confirmed as
📣 Friday 25 August 2023 📣 |
Crystal-A-Con is coming to the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on Friday 25 August 2023 for school groups and also Saturday 26 August for general public.
Our free half-day experience will have plenty to see and do for students and teachers alike. See further down for details on our planned interactive activities.
There has been immense interest so we expect that all sessions will get booked out very quickly. Tickets will become available to book on Monday 1 May 2023 and those on our expression of interest list will get first chance to book their spot.
So if you haven’t yet registered your interest, what are you waiting for! |
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Program Blocks |
These are the sessions available to book into: Friday 25 August AM: 8:30am – 12:30pm Friday 25 August PM: 1:00pm – 5:00pm Saturday 26 August: 8:30am – 12:30pm |
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Activities Planned |
Did you know there are seven types of building blocks for all crystals? We’re using those for our activities. See what we have lined up. |
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Cubic:
Help make our giant diamond crystal structure
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Hexagonal:
Make your own crystal model to take home
(or to eat!)
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Rhombohedral:
Patterns and the connection to culture
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Tetragonal:
Light and Colour with ANSTO
(our nuclear
science agency)
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Orthorhombic:
Play a crystal detective with our friends from the Cambridge Crystallographic
Data Centre
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Monoclinic:
Build your own
biomolecule –
origami and more with
our friends at the
Protein Data Bank
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Triclinic:
Meet real life crystallographer scientists.
Ask them your anything or find out what their favourite crystals are and why.
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Making Crystallography Crystal Clear |
Too many awesome crystals and can’t decide which one is your favourite?
Here's two more videos of our scientists sharing their favourites and why. |
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@DrMogg
Just waiting for the cryo to warm back up @SMS_UWA @uwanews it’s a bit quite for my liking. But couldn’t help |
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@leopoldosuescun
You wonder how much I love #Perovskite? This is a representation of the structure of an oxygen-deficient vacancy-ordered perovskite of formula Sr₇Mn₇O₁₉ in my window... |
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