That’s what Mudgee Public School students were treated to when they were visited by the Shell Questacon Science Circus team on Wednesday.

Lauren Sullivan and Leisha Duncan took the students through a one hour lesson in which they demonstrated some basic premises of science.

Matthew Dunn, who’s one of the Shell Questacon Science Circus coordinators, understands the vitality of visiting regional New South Wales.

“I think it’s really important that we get to the rural areas of Australia because kids in these areas often don’t have access to these kinds of experiences,” he said.

The Shell Questacon doesn’t only educate young primary school students, but has lesson plans for high school kids as well.

“With the kids in kindergarten we might talk about bubbles and whether they’ve seen them before and what they know about them,” he said.

“Whereas with a year six group we would talk about surface tension and higher thinking concepts.”

Dunn and the Shell Questacon team wants the students they teach to understand ‘everyone can be a scientist’.

“It just comes down to finding a question, making an answer and doing a test.”

Lauren and Leisha make up a small portion of the Australian National University group that is studying a masters degree of science communication but all the students take the same approach to mentoring.

“Lauren and Leisha are doing a fantastic job considering it’s our first tour of the year.” The Shell Questacon Science Circus is set to visit Mudgee on Sunday March 25 at the Australian Rural Education Centre from 10am-3pm. 

Lauren urged students to come if they want to see her ‘safely light herself on fire.’