CSIRO Robot Responders
[Music plays and a rear view image appears of three children running away from the camera outside]
[Image changes to show the children in the background running towards the camera with three robots in the foreground, and then the image changes to show a young female talking to the camera]
Child 1: The CSIRO National Science Experiment is back.
[Music plays as image changes to show a young female walking a robot ‘dog’ outside]
[Image changes to show a young female talking to the camera with the robot ‘dog’ moving about in the background, and then the camera zooms in closer on the female talking to the camera]
Child 2: This year we're building robot responders.
[Music plays as image changes to show a child playing a robot game on an iPad, and then the image changes to show two children talking and pointing at a robot]
[Image changes to show three children handling a multi-legged robot]
Child 1: Investigate.
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Collaborate.
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Create.
[Music plays as image changes to show a young female drawing a robot, and then the image changes to show a young female smiling while using a hand to rotate a small robot]
[Image changes to show a young male talking to the camera, and then the image changes to show the young male handling cards]
Child 3: Curious minds building robots that help.
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Child 2: CSIRO robot responders.
[Music plays as images move through to show a child playing a game on an iPad, rearview of children with arms over each other’s shoulders and a robot ‘dog’ walking along, and children laughing at a robot ‘dog’]
[Image changes to show a blue screen, and text appears: CSIRO, Robot Responders, One challenge. Three missions. Multiple ways to play]
[Image changes to show a white screen with the CSIRO logo, and text appears: Australia’s National Science Agency]
How to be a researcher
Narrator: Join CSIRO Wild Watch, our first national science experiment made for young explorers.
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Unite with a nationwide team of citizen scientists to help track Australia's incredible biodiversity.
[Animation image changes to show an adult using a smartphone between two children on the right, and a blue heading text box appears on the right, and text appears: How to participate in CSIRO Wild Watch]
Getting started is easy.
[Animation image shows a white heading text appearing below the blue heading text box, and new text appears: Adults register at- www.csiro.au/WildWatch]
Adults can register at www.csiro.au/WildWatch.
[Animation images move through to show an index finger tapping a smart phone screen, tapping through the iNaturalist app to creating an account as ticks appear, and text appears: Create Account, Search Projects, CSIRO WILD WATCH, CSIRO Wild watch]
Once registered, download the iNaturalist app, create an account and join the CSIRO Wild Watch project.
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Now you're ready to begin.
[Animation image shows pin drops appearing around the map, and a text box appears top left with dot points, and text appears: National Science Week!, -Park, -Reserve, -Bushwalk, -Beach, -Backyard, -Schoolyard]
During National Science Week, your local park, reserve, bushwalk, beach, backyard or schoolyard becomes your science lab.
[Animation image changes to show an index finger tapping a smart phone’s screen to photograph yellow wattle flowers, a shark egg, wheat heads, and then saving them to the app, and text appears: CSIRO WILD WATCH PROJECT, Save Observations]
Snap a photo of any interesting plants or animals and using the iNaturalist app save these to the CSIRO Wild Watch project as an observation.
[Animation image changes to show the hand pointing at three ”WILD FILES” document folders with a photo of snails on vegetation on the top file, and text appears: TERRESTRIAL SNAILS]
You can browse our wild files for inspiration.
[Animation image changes to people loading photos from their smart phones to the Atlas of Living Australia in a white circle above, and text appears: Atlas of Living Australia, ala.org.au, National Research Collections Australia]
Every observation is shared with the Atlas of Living Australia, our national biodiversity database, and scientists at our National Research Collections Australia who work to understand and monitor our native biodiversity.
[Animation image changes to show a grey screen with heading text above a blue text box, and text appears: CSIRO Wild Watch, Register today!]
So grab your device and join CSIRO Wild Watch, where every discovery counts.
Other National Science Week activities
CSIRO Wild Watch webinars
Resources for educators
More great activities for kids
CSIRO Wild Watch received grant funding through Inspiring Australia – An Australian Government Initiative.
The Australian Government supports National Science Week in a variety of ways, including through event grants. These grants help provide nationwide science engagement activities for the community.
The Inspiring Australia initiative contributes to the Australian Government's vision to engage all Australians with science.