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In this episode, Tom interviews Paul Looyen, Teacher, YouTube educator and trivia genius about Physics teaching, science education and photography. 
You can find Paul most places as @physicshigh
YouTube
WebsiteInstagramTwitter

Paul answered the question that Alice Gorman asked about artworks and asked his own here.
What is one biggest roadblock for student engaging in science at High School and what is the solution to that?
Call to action:
Photography.
Get a good camera, and learn some cool tools.Here is The website that Paul runs stonemeadow.com.au

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STEMpunk was given an incredible opportunity, to run an event for the Vivid Ideas festival called Significant Figures, where we interviewed a wonderful scientist with a panel or more excellent scientists, or significant figures!

The panel of significant figures, Ivy Shih, Corey Tutt and Kirsten Banks, was to interview through games and questions, a mystery science guest, Associate Professor Tanya Latty from the University of Sydney,

BUT...

it was cancelled.

     Boo!

But we ran it anyway!!

     Huzzah!!

...and this episode is that panel show, but instead of live, we did it online. Same people, same concept, just no live audience. This worked incredibly well. So fun, so learn, and so....ewwwww!

Thanks to the amazing Ivy, Corey and Kirsten, andof course Tanya Latty. You are all wonderful.

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Dr Space Junk

In this episode, Tom interviews Alice Gorman about the usual things like how you got involved in STEM and Space Archeology. We talked about her beginnings, some actuall space archeology and most importantly, we left plenty unsaid for the next time we get Alice back on the podcast!

You can Find Alice most places as @drspacejunk

Alice Answered the question that Matthew asked about going to Mars, (which was a great answer!) and asked her own here.

What work of art made a difference to how you thought about your science?

Firstly, read the book that Alice wrote, really! Read it! It is called Dr Space Junk Vs The Universe

Alice recommends that you read the trilogy from C.S. Lewis called The Space trilogy.

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Well, it is not exactly rocket sci....,

Actually, it IS exactly rocket science

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In this episode, Tom interview Matthew D'Souza about the usual things as well as his recent win at the SpacePort America Cup.  This was a great episode with a young superstar of Science and engineering. This really is exactly rocket science!

The Universioty of Sydney Rocketry Team won first place at Spaceport America Cup for the 10,000 ft Commercial Off The shelf Category. The Silvereye flew to 10,027 ft with perfect flight events and recovery. This was a big part of the interview!

Matt answered the question that Zeeshan asked about books he has read, and asked his own here.

If you could go to Mars, would you?! 

Native Australian bird Silver Eye
Artist: Nikita Ridgeway

Find out about the University of Sydney Rocketry team and their winning mission Silver Eye here

Matt is essentially a nerd about being a nerd, he loves to nerd out about nerding out! So as their is no real link to that, here are some rocket links for you to learn about, or go and do!

Motor Classification

Where to buy hobby rockets

Silver Eye Mission patch

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Shane, a microphone and Zeeshan.

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What does Genetics, Boston, and being president have in common? In this episode of STEMpunk, Shane sits down with Zeeshan Siddiqui in chatting about his passions from his research in bioinformatics to inspirations about being a science communicator. Zeeshan is an honours student in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) at UNSW Sydney.

It has taken us a while to get this episode out, so you are in for a treat, it is a double episode! Wahoo! Moar Science!

Zeeshan answered the question Mitch had about his past, and asked his own here.

What were the latest three Science related books or articles that you read, and did you like them?“

Thanks Zeeshan for the chat, and we look forward to seeing what you get up to in the future!

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Dr Abigail Fraeman, Shane Hengst,
Liz Landau, Tom Gordon,
Dr Sarah Reeves.

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On Tuesday 16 July 2019, STEMpunk went back to Wayward Brewery and were joined by special NASA guests for an evening of Planets and Parables. Dr Abigail Fraeman (Planetary Scientist) and Liz Landau (Science Story teller) and Dr Sarah Reeves (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) were the stars of a live recording of the STEMpunk podcast to mark 50 years since the Moon landing.

“We went to the Moon and we returned humans safely, we should celebrate that,” said Science Communicator and STEMpunk producer Tom Gordon. “The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing is an event well worth celebrating and an opportunity to remember the hard work that went into it and what happened as a result.”

“The significant anniversary of the Moon landing presents a great opportunity to talk about the future. And while we are at it, we talked about other space and Science related things.”

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Action shot of Mitch being interviewed

In this episode, Tom interviews Mitch Gibbs from the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Science. Mitch studies Oysters and climate change. In Mitch's words, in this case, "climate change is not good, but not as horrifying as you'd think." After a very quick intro,Mitch and I chatted about indigenous science and then we went on to other topics like Marvel and black holes.

This wasn't really an interview, more a great chat with a friend who has some fascinating and opinions and perspectives. We talked about Science, #PhDlyf, STEM and indigenous science.

What did you learn from this episode?

Mitch answered Annie's questions about diving into a black hole and asked his own here.

If you could relive any moment from your past, what would it be and why?

Mitch's call to action could be summarised by Comic books and indigenous science, a healthy combination.

Marvel

- World War Hulk

David Unaipon

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

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We started STEMpunk a couple of years ago,
perhaps we should have done this sooner!

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This was a great episode, it was a chance for the STEMpunks (Tom, Christie and Shane) to talk about some really essential stuff like... 

Who is our Audience?

Rule 1 of a podcast should be defining who your audience is, up till now it has been just...us! But we think we could do better than that! So in this episode, we had a great time designing a character who is a STEMpunk listener, so now when we record an episode, it'll be for that hypothetical person.

It's probably rare to have an insight into how some companies, people or organisations define who their audience is, or what their brand is, but this is a well known marketing technique for helping people figure out who to sell or pitch to. It is such an interesting exercise to literally come up with a character for a purpose.

So we'd like to introduce our audience. I'm sure Nic is pleased to meet you!

Name: Nic

Age: 33

Occupation: STEM professional

Where do they live: Somewhere like Glebe

Who do they live with: Housemates, most likely in STEM fields too

Income: ~$75k

Hobbies: Photography, Rock climbing, Music

What does STEM mean to them? Excitement, Passion, Important, Job, Opinions (but not necessarily positive or negative).

Favourite Bands/podcasts: STEMpunk, Reply all, Science Vs, No Such thing as a fish, Stuff you should know, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Science Show, Andrew Huang.

Favourite social media apps: Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram.

Why do they listen to Podcasts? To learn new things.

Why do they listen to STEMpunk? To learn something new about science communication.

When do they listen to Podcasts? While commuting.

What does their life look like before and after they listen to STEMpunk? After listening they’ll be more informed and engaged to go and do some sci comm.

We also had a very special guest in this episode, see if you can hear them with their various interjections!

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Annie Handmer. Historian, Philosopher,

Sociologist, Ethicist, Scientist.

In this episode, Tom interviews Annie Handmer from the University of Sydney's School of History and Philosophy of Science. Annie studies things such as international science projects to figure out how people do science together. It's a fascinating topic.  This is one of those episodes that really felt too short.

This wasn't really an interview, more a great chat with a friend who has some fascinating experiences and opinions. We talked about space junk, advertising and mining, What STEM is, and even what science is. We finished with a bit of a nerd out about metal music!

Annie answered Corey's questions about how you communicate science and asked her own here, it's a doozy!

If you could experience going into a black hole knowing that you'd never come back, would you? What if you could send data back about your experience?

You can Find Annie on twitter here @AHandmer as well as on her own Podcast Space Junk Podcast. You can find out more about the School of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) here

Annie loves Metal music: Here are some band names:
Jinjer

Black Sabbath

Amon Amarth

Ex Japan

Krav Maga

Maths - This is numberphile, it comes under the heading of "recreational maths," and is a lot of fun!

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Thumbs up Corey!

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In this episode, Tom interviews rising star Corey Potter-Tutt. We talked a lot about indigenous Science, brain food, animals and their superpowers and Camelids! 

A great episode where I feel like I learnt a lot from a different perspective on science communication. I was totally impressed at the work that Corey is doing, sending Science books to Indigenous schools. It's clear that Corey has many superpowers!

Corey answered Ivy's question about what you'd tell your past self and asked his own here:

How do you see yourself in the science world and how do you communicate what you do?

You can Find Corey on twitter here @Corey_Potter as well as on instagram @cdawg201826 and facebook here. Corey also spends a lot of time with AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) at the University of Sydney. It's worth a look.  

Alpacas I've linked to the Wikipedia page. If you want to learn about them IRL, go to the Aplaca Barn in Berrima

A special mention also goes to the book about animals from Corey's Childhood, Australian Reptiles in Colour by Harold Cogger. This was a great story that he told in the episode

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