Registering your school event

It is now time to show Australia what great things you are doing in your school. If you have an event that is happening in your school for your school and its community please register it on the main page and tell us what you are doing.

Please register your school event and tick the 'school only' box which appears on the event registration form.

Registering your event is vital for National Science Week.

There are a few simple steps that you need to follow to ensure a successful registration of your event.

Registering as an event author

First you will need to create an account to register your event(s) - this will allow you to enter your event details, submit the event to the Science Week team for publishing, and come back later if you need to do any editing of your event.

1. Click on the large orange 'Register Your Event' button on the home page.
2. Below the 'Register to create and edit events' heading there is a link to create an account.
3. You will be asked to create a user name and a password for your account.
4. Passwords need to have at least 7 characters and include a symbol such as ! or @.
5. Fill in the fields and enter the special visual code shown to prove you are a real person.
6. Click on 'Create User' to make an account.
7. You should see a confirmation of your successful registration and can click on 'Continue' to be taken back to the home page.
8. You should now be logged on to the website - the top right of the home page will say 'Welcome username' when you are logged in.

Registering an event

1. Sign in to the website by using the 'sign in' link on the top right of the home page.
2. When you are logged in the top right of the home page will say 'Welcome username'.
3. Click on 'Register Your Event' on the map on the front page - this will take you to the event registration form.
4. Have an image ready to upload to ensure your event stands out (it needs to be a jpg, png or gif and less than 1MB in size).
5. Enter your event details - make sure you tick 'school only' so we can easily see all the school events on the map.
6. Check the Google map address to ensure the location of your event is clearly identified. Some venue addresses are initially incorrectly recognised. In this case:
   • remove all of the entered address details
   • enter the suburb and then click outside of the box in another field box
   • the map on the bottom of the page should now align with this suburb, and your state should be automatically added to the form
   • now add your street address using the suggested format (without the brackets) and then click outside of the box
   • the Google map should now display the correct location.

If you need to pause during entering event details you can click on 'Save'.

To return and edit a saved event

1. Sign in.
2. Click on 'Welcome username' on the home page and select 'Manage registered events' from the drop down menu.
3. A blue page with a listing of events will appear.
4. The list of the events should show any you have saved or submitted.
5. Click on the event name and then click on 'Edit Item' to continue editing.

Final Approval

After all your details are correct, please click 'Submit for Approval'. Notification will be sent to the National Science Week team that your event is ready to check.

The approval process is currently taking approximately 5 working days.

To check on the status of your event registration

You can check on the status of your events in the approval process by looking at your list of events retrieved from 'Manage registered events' (see step 2 above).

If you have a problem registering your event, complete this Word form and then email it to us - we will respond as soon as possible.