This may interest your science staff next year. It came to me via the oz-teachers mailing list. enjoy :-)<div><div><br></div><div>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br>
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.4pt;background:white"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:bold">CONASTA is the annual Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA).</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">In 2012 CONASTA 61 will be hosted by the Science Educators Association of the Australian Capital Territory (SEA*ACT).<br>
<br>CONASTA 61 will offer a strong Professional Program including: Lab Tech Program, Primary Program, Workshops and Excursions. CONASTA 61 will also offer fantastic social and networking opportunities.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">CONASTA 61 will be held at the Australian National University (ANU) 8-11 July 2012<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">Registrations and expressions of interest for presenting papers and workshops are now open at <a href="http://www.conasta.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://www.conasta.edu.au/</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"">You can also visit <a href="http://moodle.asta.edu.au/course/view.php?id=4" target="_blank">http://moodle.asta.edu.au/course/view.php?id=4</a> to see some of the highlights of the 2011 conference.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">Nigel Mitchell<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font color="red" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:red;font-style:italic">ASTA - the Australian Science Teachers Association</span></font></i><i><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";font-style:italic"> </span></font></i><font color="#0070c0" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#0070c0"><a href="http://www.asta.edu.au/" target="_blank"><font color="#0070c0"><span style="color:#0070c0">www.asta.edu.au</span></font></a></span></font><i><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";font-style:italic"><u></u><u></u></span></font></i></p>
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