I was just reading The Cog and it had a story written by a student, Courtney Blick from Glenrowan, who attended the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in Canberra in January this year.  Courtney was clearly already a motivated student but not sure about following a science career path. She was exposed     through the NYSF program to a range of stimulating science programs.  Over 12 days she went to 5 labs or field sites, including the Canberra deep Space Communication Complex at Tibinbilla and the Molongolo Observatory. She met with mathemeticians, Nobel Prize Laureates, politicians, business people and academics. Our club has the opportunity to nominate a Year 11 student for the NYSF program in Januray next year.  Expressions of Interest are now open, and close at the end of May. If you know of any student who maybe interested, please let us know as we would really like to sponsor a student on this excellent program.