From the Director of the Monash Science Centre

The Monash Science Centre is a unique place in Australia where active, imaginative research scientists and teachers with a definite interest and experience in science get together with students, their teachers, their friends and the general public. Programs of the Centre take these people into labs, the field, on the net, and into the classroom to explore how science works and what it is able to offer. The Centre connects science and technology with the arts, politics, economics, law - and many other disciplines. Staff at the Centre are passionate about what they do - otherwise they would not be here - and the vision of the Centre is to open a window on science that offers an in depth look at science opportunities to use scientific thought and knowledge in everyday life - tools for facing the future realistically and sustainably. Scientific knowledge and scientific thinking are powerful tools which everyone should be able to use in one way or the other, every day of their lives and give them the ability to make their own decisions about complex, and not so complex issues that face us all the time!

Professor Pat Vickers Rich