Ben Newsome CF FRSA

Founder

Ben Newsome founded Fizzics Education in 2004 to deliver science education across Australia and beyond.  

He is a qualified science teacher, 2013 Churchill Fellow, 2020 AMP Tomorrow Maker,  2015, 2016 & 2018 Australian Small Business Winner for Children’s Education Services and receiver of the UTS Chancellors Award for Excellence and several Pinnacle Awards from the Center for Interactive Learning & Collaboration.

Ben is a board member for Educating 4 Leadership, is an advisory board member of the Center for Interactive Learning & Collaboration, an Ambassador for the Association of Science Education Technicians NSW and is part of the NSW Churchill Fellows Association committee. He is also the author of ‘Be Amazing! How to teach science the way primary kids love’ & the host of the FizzicsEd Podcast.

Justine Bellamy

Business Manager

Bringing over 25 years of managerial experience, Justine joined Fizzics Education in 2007 to manage the growth and opportunities of the company. Justine has worked with a large variety of corporate social responsibility & event teams on public engagement and outreach projects nationwide. She has cultivated long-standing relationships with executives from many industries & enjoys working with new clients to co-design collaborative delivery of engagement opportunities.

Jacqui K

VIC Team Leader

Growing up around science, Jacqui has always been passionate about finding the science in everyday things and sharing them with others….also blowing things up! Working at Fizzics allows her to do both, and much more! You can find her delivering workshops, shows and parties in schools and homes across Victoria.  

A decade ago, Jacqui discovered her love for science communication while volunteering with the Chemistry Outreach team at the University of Otago. Since then, she has dabbled in film-making, consulting, translating and developing resources for science education projects. She travels all over the world for science outreach, even as far as Borneo to do experiments with school kids in the jungle.

Peter D

NSW Team Leader

Peter mixes his science shows with a true flair for performance! With a background in theatre as well as the sciences, Peter can hold an audience of any age and has a blast doing it. You’ll often find Peter travelling with his ukelele and he can certainly sing a song or two!

Phoenix S

NSW Team Leader

You’ll often find Phoenix fixing things, programming things and designing things! Phoenix is someone who is a jack-of-all-trades, equally at home running a science workshop as they are holding a hammer. From presenting coding workshops and LEGO robotics through to engineering programs and physics shows, Phoenix is having a blast!  

Phoenix has presented at Innovation Games at Sydney Olympic Park, for the GWS Giants Science Days, for the Australian Museum Science Festival and more. At University they majored in Nanotechnology and as such thoroughly enjoys discussing physics with audiences young and old.

Amelia A

Science Educator

Amelia has shown a passion for science and nature since she was a toddler! Her interest in prehistoric life and dinosaurs began at the age of 3 and led to her studying advanced science and palaeontology at university.

Working with children is a source of great joy and she does her best to pass on her excitement and love of all things science. Downtime is spent gardening and playing with her menagerie of pets. Amelia loves playing video games and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Pokémon!

Parker

Science Educator

Parker is a passionately curious Canadian, always having fun with science in everyday life! Watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos at the age of 14 led Parker to studying Physics and Math at the University of Toronto and then Science Communication with Laurentian University and Science North. Here, Parker conducted research on identifying engagement behaviours in audiences of live science shows.

Since then, Parker has loved being an educational Curator for three interactive science galleries, Programs Manager (Creative Robotics and Teen Programs) and Performer of live science shows and workshops. When not facilitating (or thinking about) learning, Parker is with friends either bushwalking, at a museum, practicing Tai Chi, or watching Star Wars cartoons / Avatar The Last Airbender (again).

Britt

Administration

You’ll find Britt in the heart of the office! Beyond making sure that programs run smoothly, Britt loves the outdoors and is an AFL devotee (seriously, you should see the GWS Giants stuff around her desk!).

You’ll sometimes find Britt out with the education team at public events … when you see her come and say hi!

Ben

Science Educator

Ben is a passionate science communicator who brings a contagious energy to all his science presentations. Working with Fizzics Education has seen him launch countless film canister rockets, make gallons of liquid Nitrogen ice cream, and make more oobleck slime than most people do in a lifetime!

Ben has presented science shows and workshops at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre as well as to a wide range of audiences including kindergartens to high school students. Work at Fizzics has also led to running breakout science sessions at the Australian Grand Prix, Hoyts Cinemas and other promotional work on top of visiting schools and libraries.

Susan

Administration

Susan brings over 24 years’ experience in office administration from a varied array of industries: from petrol and concrete to electronics and photography.

Susan is a critical team member, keeping the accounts and management processes in order whilst bringing valued practical insights into business practices. She loves that at Fizzics, she can continue to learn new and exciting things, plus we’re a strange mob 🙂