Joel has been involved with the CSIRO’s Scientists in Schools program for 5 or so years now, and recently visited his long-term partner school – Strathfield North Public School – spending 2 days with the year 5 and 6 students teaching them about the principles of electromagnetism and giving them the chance to make an electromagnetic motor themselves from basic materials. It’s a great program – he would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wanted to help raise science literacy in schools.

Joel demonstrating that a currrent carrying wire has an associated magnetic field

Joel creating an electromagnetic motor with several SNPS students looking on.