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Welcome to the website of the

Veronica James Science Challenge
for
Hearing Impaired Children

The Veronica James Science Challenge for Hearing Impaired Children is an annual event which aims to teach children with hearing impairments about science - especially interesting and useful science. These children are sometimes unjustifiably left out of normal education processes because of the assumed difficulties of communicating with them.

The challenge is not only for gifted science students - rather it is an opportunity for hearing impaired students of all abilities to explore and get excited about the world of science.

More about the challenge

The 2008 challenge

NewThe booking form for 2008 is available here: PDF format and Word/DOC format


The 2007 challenge

Pictures from the 2007 camp are available here

The 2006 challenge

Pictures from the 2006 camp are available here


The 2005 challenge

2005 was the 20th anniversary of the Science challenge

The 2005 Challenge was held at:
Where: Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
When: 8:30am to 3:30pm, on Saturday and Sunday, 9 and 10 April, 2004

Pictures from the 2005 Challenge are available here


The 2004 Camp

Pictures from the camp are available here

The 2003 Camp

The 2003 camp was held on the weekend of the 12 and 13 of April 2003 at Sydney Uni. Pictures from the camp are available here

The 2002 Camp

The 2002 camp was held on the weekend of the 27th and 28th of April 2002 (the last weekend of the Easter holidays) at Sydney Uni. Pictures from the camp are available here

The 2001 Camp

The 2001 camp was held on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of April 2001 (the last weekend of the Easter holidays) at Sydney Uni. As with last year, both children and tutors/organisers had lots of fun (and not only at the lunchtime soccer match :)

The 1999 Camp

The 1999 camp was a great success. There were a reduced number of students (less than the usual 100) due to the camp dates coinciding with Mother's Day, but those who did turn up had a great weekend. The activities included constructing flying origami, creating stained glass ornaments, and a spectacular magic show with the underlying physics explained.

We were included in National Science Week, and on the second day the extraordinary Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki came along, and stayed to present the awards.

Another of the activities in the camp was to write a resumé for yourself, in a format (HTML) which can be posted onto the internet. You can see the resumés that the students wrote last year here.

There were some photos taken during the camp, so you can see what it's all about.

Contacts

If you have any questions or comments, then please email Helen Hammersley.