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It’s sad to see that ScienceWeek needs the carrot approach to bait bloggers to talk about their favourite inventions. Yes, it builds a bit of buzz. But just because the word Wii is floating about as fingers hit keyboards. As a nation are we really that allergic to science, technology and engineering? So what happens next week? Back to the usual bitching..

Yeah, there’s some events being held around the country this week. Shouldn’t science be soft-sold every day to students instead of a flash in the pan week? Will science be out on the back burner again until it is pushed out in a wheelchair for next year’s event wrapped in PR buzz? Something has to change.

Teaching needs to come into the 21st Century. The cold, heartless trudge through tomes of science formulae has come to a place where closer engagement with researchers and practical real-world engineering is a reality. Would I trade this approach for a piece of plastic? Nope. Science is for life. It’s discovery and enlightenment, not a subject to just survive through.

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