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UNSW Bragg Student Science Writing Prize

Write a short essay on ‘Not-so-smart technology’ and you could win a fantastic set of prizes, including publication in Australia’s top science magazines, a $500 UNSW Bookshop voucher, a subscription to the Australian…

Free

Create It Comp

With engineers, anything is possible! To celebrate Engineers Australia’s 100th birthday, we are encouraging Australians to think about how engineering has helped them in all parts of their lives. So,…

Free
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The Moon

Geelong Gallery 55 Little Malop Street, Geelong

For centuries artists from many cultures have been inspired by the Moon, the most prominent feature of our night sky. The exhibition includes historical works created when the Moon could only be viewed from afar, works from the era of the 1960s space race, and more contemporary responses informed by the imagery and scientific knowledge acquired through space exploration.

Win a free moon rock competition!

In celebration of our 50th birthday and the Moon landing on 21 July 1969 (Australian Time) we are running a competition to win a small piece of the Moon! Open…

Free

Space: 50 years since man first stepped on the moon

Gippsland Art Gallery 70 Foster Street, Sale

Space celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing (20 July) with an exhibition that examines humankind’s longstanding fascination with space and space travel. The exhibition explores the romance of space…

Free

Sunday Family Program: The Great Gut Microbe Hunt

Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton

Discover how amazing our bodies really are at Melbourne Museum on Sundays during Term Three as we search for microbes and anything else you might find in your tummy. Design…

Free

Trash Robot

Yarra River Southbank

Urban Rivers (USA) Can we game our way to a cleaner world? Take control of our garbage-eating robot either in person or online! Created by Chicago-based collective Urban Rivers, Trash Robot…

Free

Hunt for the Plastic Eaters

Science Gallery Melbourne throws down the gauntlet and sets an ambitious challenge: can we find a new plastic-eating bacteria in Australia? This project asks citizen scientists to culture bacteria in…

Free

P@TCH

Macfarland Court The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Janna Ahrndt (United States of America) Will you truthfully track your environmental goals? Like a Fitbit for your ethical performance, P@tch is a textile-based new media project inspired by punk and…

Free

Urinotron

Macfarland Court The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Sandra and Gaspard Bébié-Valérian (France) and Professor Peter Scales (Australia) Are you flushing a valuable wee-source? Urinotron is a large-scale installation that takes our organic waste (urine) and transforms it into power for your mobile phone, before recycling it…

Free

Plastivore

Macfarland Court The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Artist Oliver Kellhammer’s work allows you to watch the mealworms as they dine on polystyrene.   Oliver Kellhammer (United States of America) Do solutions to our recycling crisis exist in…

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DISPOSABLE

The University of Melbourne Parkville

Science Gallery Melbourne’s pop-up program DISPOSABLE will highlight experimental and creative ways to tackle our ever growing excess of waste. DISPOSABLE locations will include The University of Melbourne’s Parkville and…

Free
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Little Bang Discovery Club

Central Highlands Libraries

This four-week course gives you and your child a way to discover science together. With hands-on activities, question and answer time, a Discovery Box and book loaned to each child…

The Great Aussie Bioquest 2019

You’ll be amazed what you discover when you download QuestaGame and join this year’s Great Aussie BioQuest on your smartphone. Compete against other teams to map biodiversity – all while…

Free

Chicken Hatching

Hastings Library 7 High Street, Hastings

Come to Hastings Library and watch the chicks hatch, meet and have a snuggle with our fluffy new friends.  Hastings Library will be home to an incubator with chicks for…

Free

UMWELTEN – Eco-fields and other Universes

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery Level 8, Room 16 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Felicity Spear, in her exhibition Umwelten – eco-fields and other universes, has created circular paintings on wood, encircled by profiles of the human skull. They are speculations about the possibilities…

Free

They Walk Among Us

Briars Astronomy Centre and Observatory 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha

They’re right under our noses yet we don’t notice them. Some just listen but others might be transmitting as you read this, perhaps even in code. They might not use…

Free

MACHINE World Premiere Screening at Melbourne International Film Festival

Cinema 6, Hoyts Melbourne Central Cnr Swanston and LaTrobe Streets, Melbourne

The world premiere of MACHINE screening at Melbourne International Film Festival. MACHINE is an exploration of identity, creativity, and humanity, as we grapple with Artificial Intelligence and our place in a world…

$17 – $21

Monash Parkville Open Day

Monash University Parkville Campus 381 Royal Parade, Parkville

Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is number three in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology. On Open day we open our doors to the public to find…

Free

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Codergarten

Codergarten 45 Mundy Street, Bendigo

SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to inspire the young, satisfy the curious, explain the baffling and ask the impossible. SCINEMA is the largest science…

$5

Fizzle and Pop Show by Twisted Science

Bunjil Place Library Bunjil Place, Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren

The Fizzle and Pop Show is full of the magic of science with fun, creative demonstrations. With plenty of hands-on opportunities for willing participants and heaps to see and wonder…

Free

Sounds a lot like science with the Curiosity Show and VYSO

Iwaki Auditorium, ABC 120-130 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank

Professor Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton from the Curiosity Show are back to explore the science of sound with Artistic Director Dr Ingrid Martin and the Victorian Youth Symphony…

$10 – $30

The Festival of Soil

ArtPlay Birrarung Marr, Russell Street Extension, Melbourne

Join us for The Festival of Soil – a celebration of the hidden worlds beneath our feet, explored through art, science and storytelling. Did you know that there are more living…

Free

Spot the Bull s…cience

Royal Society of Victoria 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne

The Science Nation is celebrating National Science Week with Spot the Bull S…cience, a contest of intelligence, interrogation and deceit. Spot the Bull Science is a contest of intelligence, interrogation…

$10 – $15
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