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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Reminder that one of the best #scicomm tools is still a USB microscope. #BraggYourPattern

microscope image of the weave on a dress - the light makes the blue dress fibres appear silver and each individual strand can be seen

microscope image of the screen of a phone, individual pixels of green, red and blue can be seen in a repeating pattern

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🎉740 Crystal explorer kits sent to primary schools all over Australia and New Zealand - the last 10 will get sent out this week! Thanks to everyone who signed up for one. #BraggYourPattern

Image from google maps of Australia and New Zealand with 750 locations marked on it - each location is of a primary school that has received a crystal explorer kit.

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We've raced past 500 schools and now well over 650! Look how spread out those locations are. We're really happy that our Crystal Explorer Kits are reaching remote primary schools all over. #BraggYourPattern

A map of Australia and New Zealand with pins indicating the location of a primary school that have received a Crystal Explorer Kit.

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Setting out today on a road-trip with the prototype 'Crystal-A-Con in a box', all you need to keep 50 exciable primary school kids #Crystallographically entertained and informed for an hour at a time??? Wish us luck!!

An image of the contents of a box of science communication equipment. There are eight boxes of crystal explorer kit, a tube with some mineral samples, a USB microscope, 3D printed Einstein tiles, freebies puzzles and of course a big bag of jubes (gelatine sweets) and toothpicks.

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Very different - They are crystal model kits! They come with enough atoms (an instructions) to make a diamond, lonsdalite, buckyball or sodalite structure. You can find lots more info on the website! braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl...

image of the inside of the crystal explorer kit

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It's #ScienceWeek here in Australia, and in an update we're doing fabulously in sending out our crystal explorer kits to primary schools over Aus and NZ. If you know a school that might like one - direct them to braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl... today!

A map of Australia and New Zealand showing the locations of primary schools that have signed up for our Free Crystal explorer kit - they are well spread over the two countries

A photo of the inside of a crystal explorer kit - the teaching booklet, and a brightly coloured sticker

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There are now boxes of #CrystalExplorer kits ready to go, a FREE resource for Primary Schools in Australia and NZ. We're targeting regional and remote schools (so far reaching from Tom Price to the Chatham Islands), head to BraggYourPattern.com to sign up for one

Ready packaged crystal explorer kits ready to be distributed to schools

A map of Australia and NZ, showing pins across the region where primary schools have signed up for a Crystal Explorer kit

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The first 50 Crystal Explorer Kits are packaged and off to the post office! Long day yesterday getting the sets finalised, but very exciting to get the first lot out of the door. #BraggYourPattern

A box that is open with the lid to one side, inside the box is a booklet that is titled 'Crystal explorer Kit' and the lid has a sticker with the same title and an amusing picture of Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Details of the inside of the crystal explorer kit, showing the atoms and bonds as well as an inside spread of the crystal explorer booklet (on the page talking about Lonsdaleite)

Shows 6 boxes on trolley, with a box on top on one of the trolleys. The boxes are full of packaged up crystal explorer kits, so off to travel thousands of kilometres!

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Week 2 of sign ups for our #CrystalExplorerKits going to primary school and we are containing to do well in covering regional and remote Australia/New Zealand!

Snapshot from google maps showing mainly Australia and New Zealand. There are 52 pins showing the locations of primary schools that have signed up for a crystal explorer kit.

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We're currently reaching out to schools via email and facebook group - but any contacts very welcome! Drop us a DM if you are from a regional or remote primary school in Aus and NZ and would like this free resource! [Photo credit Jun Aisima]

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We've made a teaching booklet to explain how to make four structures with the sets, and plans for more on the website (BraggYourPattern.com), we are now aiming to send these kits out to Primary (elementary) Schools in regional and remote parts of Aus and NZ. 15 sign ups already!

A map of Australia and New Zealand with blue dots that indicate where school have signed up to receive the Crystal Explorer kits

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The structure took many days to put together, and a small amount of time to tear apart. But that was not the end - the structure has now painstakingly separated into atoms and bonds and put into ~750 Crystal Explorer Kits [Image credit to @rosieyoung.bsky.social and @sbattenresearch.bsky.social]

image of a crystal model kit box, with the contents displayed. Inside the box there are two packets, one of black atoms and one of grey bonds

A green wheelie bin that is full of black atoms for the model sets, underneath the bin there are cardboard boxes full of grey bonds.

Image of a blister on someones thumb from removing all the the grey bonds from the black atoms for the crystal structure kits

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Many in the #Crystallography community will remember this (and may have helped put part of it together). Our record breaking diamond structure built at the 2023 IUCr congress in Melbourne [Photo credit Jun Aishima]

An image of a large diamond crystal structure model with a large sign on the top of it

A group of people sat around the giant diamond structure

detail of someone putting together the giant diamond structure

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Not to 'Bragg' but we have a VERY exciting project brewing and looking forward to getting the word out. Our crystal explorer kits are nearly ready for launch. Check back on Monday to find out more.... #BraggYourPattern

image of the front cover of a booklet, with the title 'Crystal Explorer Kit'. The cover has images of connected atoms and logos from project supporters SCANZ and ANSTO

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Anyone go to the beach over the Easter weekend? Lots of quite calming patterns to find, where sea meets shore. #BraggYourPattern

Ripple patterns in the sand of a beach in the North Atlantic. There are two types of pattern overlaid with each other, vertically (up the beach) there are long ridges of sand, probably from the waves. Horizontally there are short lines in between the wave lines. They are interspersed with a small amount of seaweed

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