Community education: South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy: industry association for resources and mining companies industry in SA

Education program

National Science Week 2009

It was for a delighted crowd of 16,000 budding junior scientists and their parents that the South Australian Museum was Open for Science this National Science Week, and SACOME was at the heart of the action with its own interactive display in the entrance marquee. Visitors were invited to mine the chocolate chips out of cookies and understand the economics of mining, conduct their own experiments to identify some of the Earth’s precious minerals, and to top that all off, a rare opportunity to see the complicated geophysics involved in conducting an aerial survey and locating an ore body. Each activity helped engage the children in positive interaction with the resources industry.

Grace (6) and Liz Xu (11) said “the cookie mining was one of our favourite activities”, although holding the diamond python and reptiles of the South Australian Herpetology Group came a close second! Liz and Grace were the winners of our “Guess the weight of a dump truck” competition, both guessing 128,000kg for the weight of the 130,000kg Liebherr dump truck featured on the poster kindly donated by Liebherr.

We would like to thank the South Australian Musuem, Liebherr and our wonderful industry volunteers for making the event such a huge success.

Stay tuned to find out what we have coming up next.

Kind regards

Emma Hughes, Manager Careers Promotion

Encouraging young women to explore the Resources Industry

The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy would like to congratulate Breanna Edwards (15) from Eastern Fleurieu School on winning our Women in Resources competition. Addressing the topic: “Success – how science and maths will take you there”, Breanna writes about the epiphany she had watching blasting, and the connection she made between what she observed and the theory behind it.

Congratulations Breanna! The judges wish you an exciting career as a shotfirer.

To read Breanna’s article, click on the following link:

Winning Entry

SACOME Treasure Hunt - Unearthing minerals in our everyday lives

SACOME delivered a brand new activity for primary school children and their parents during the April School Holidays. 230 parents and children took part in a treasure hunt around the CBD, helping children to discover how we use natural resources in our everyday lives. Each particpant received their very own treasure map and received a goodie bag on completion of the hunt.

This activity took place as part of Exploration Week, a festival celebrating Sir Douglas Mawson and his contributions to exploration. We are very grateful to all our partners, including RI Aus, South Australian Museum, State library of South Australia, Santos and SA Water.

We would also like to thank the kind sponsors of our prizes, Marathon Resources, Port Adelaide Football Club, BHP Billiton, Santos, Windmill Theatre, Haighs Chocolates and the RI Aus.

Keep in touch to find out more about what we are up to over the next few months.

Kind Regards,

The SACOME Education Team

South Australian Chamber of Mines & Energy

Mines and Energy House

290 Glen Osmond Road

Fullarton SA 5063

T +61 8 8202 9999

www.sacome.org.au

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