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Space: 50 years since man first stepped on the moon
Gippsland Art Gallery 70 Foster Street, Sale
Free
Sunday Family Program: The Great Gut Microbe Hunt
Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Free
Week of Events
Robogals Science Challenge 2019
The Robogals Science Challenge is an Australia-wide science competition for girls. It enables participants to learn more about science and engineering by conducting projects or experiments with a friend, parent, or another mentor. Entries to the competition are submitted online in the form of videos, photos and writing in three age categories. The competition will…
Free
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 Book Review and a trip to the Bragg Prize award ceremony and book launch of The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 in Sydney in November. Best of all, every…
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, if anything is possible and you had unlimited time, money, help, and skill, what would you engineer? Show us your creation, and you have a…
Free
All Things Moon Poetry
Write a poem about THE MOON: it could be about travelling to the Moon; some human history or culture that includes our understanding of the Moon; what the Moon has taught us in science; anything else that’s Moon-related. When National Science Week begins (11-19 August) the Science Rhymes website will display a collection of your rhyming verse…
Free
The Moon
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 to all Primary & Secondary students in Australia. The question asked gives a clue to how we obtained the unique specimen. Good luck. ***…
Free
Space: 50 years since man first stepped on the moon
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 through visual culture produced in the lead up to and aftermath of the Moon landing. The works will span the furthest reaches of the human…
Free
Sunday Family Program: The Great Gut Microbe Hunt
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 your own ‘microbe mobile’ and see what beautiful things live inside your gut. Suitable for ages 5-12. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free…
Free
Trash Robot
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 will be trawling Melbourne’s Yarra River collecting rubbish outside of the City’s existing litter traps. And Melbourne’s waterways really need the help – in 2017, they were filled with…
Free
Eel Trap – weaving workshops
“Rivers signify tribal boundaries, gatherings for corroboree, life, not only for humans but for all living creatures” – Maree Clarke. Mitch Mahoney & Maree Clarke (Australia) Created by Boon Wurrung artist Mitch Mahoney and Mutti Mutti/Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/Wemba Wemba artist Maree Clarke, Eel Trap is a 10-metre installation made of biodegradable reeds and grasses on the Maribyrnong River. Inspired by traditional…
Free
Fatberg (Creating)
Arne Hendriks (Netherlands) & Mike Thompson (United Kingdom) Do we really understand fat? In November 2017, the 130-tonne ‘Monster of Whitechapel’ was ejected from the bowels of east London. This fatberg – a congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies – stretched the length of nearly two AFL footy ovals, taking workmen armed with shovels and high-powered jets…
Free
The Sewer Soaperie
Would you wash your hands with soap made from sewage? Catherine Sarah Young (Philippines) Sewer Soaperie turns raw sewage and fat into luxury soaps. Extreme storms now frequently overwhelm drains, pipes and sewerage systems, causing flooding in major cities. Large lumps of coagulated grease, known as ‘fatbergs’, clog the system and create flooding. These greasy beasts are created…
Free
SCINEMA International Science Film Festival National Science Week Program
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. Register your venue to host your own free SCINEMA screening during National Science Week. SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in…
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 the search for a new species that could solve our plastic waste dilemma. The lid has been lifted on human wastefulness, but what next? Science…
Free
P@TCH
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 DIY culture. Each homemade P@tch uses self-reporting and environmental sensors to allow the user to track their personal and surrounding pollution. P@tch participants will set…
Free
Urinotron
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 back to pure water. Contribute your urine and then put your feet up as the salts in your liquid gold turn into sustainable pee power. Why are we flushing such a valuable resource? Urinotron combines scientific equipment,…
Free
Plastivore
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 nature? Nature is outsmarting us. Solutions to our enormous waste problems are often right in front of us. Polystyrene is a non-biodegradable material that is…
Free
DISPOSABLE
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 Southbank campuses, along with unique sites throughout Melbourne. The lid has been lifted on human wastefulness, but what next? Following the lead of Australian cult-hero,…
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Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven
Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven
Presented by Professor Arun Ram, with live music performed by Joshua Hooke This performance will take you back to the salons of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn in Berlin, 1828, to a gathering of some of the greatest scientific and musical minds of the day. In the year 1828, Alexander von Humboldt set up a hut…
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Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo (Catholic Schools)
Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo (Catholic Schools)
Women in STEM: Future Careers, 21st Century Skills and Role Models Females are drastically underrepresented in STEM subjects and jobs across the planet – let’s change that! On the eve of National Science Week 2019, educate and inspire your Year 7–10 students by connecting with real-world STEM mentors and case studies. This conference is especially…
$19
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Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo
Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo
Women in STEM: Future Careers, 21st Century Skills and Role Models Females are drastically underrepresented in STEM subjects and jobs across the planet – let’s change that! On the eve of National Science Week 2019, educate and inspire your Year 7–10 students by connecting with real-world STEM mentors and case studies. This conference is especially…
$19
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Testing Grounds – First Friday of the Month
Testing Grounds – First Friday of the Month
Come celebrate the first Friday of the month at Southbank’s Testing Grounds with DISPOSABLE artworks Fatberg and Sewer Soaperie. It’s the first Friday of the month again and Testing Grounds is bringing you installations, exhibition openings and performances, including DISPOSABLE artworks Fatberg by UK artists Mike Thompson and Arne Hendricks and The Sewer Soaperie by Catherine Sarah Young. Plus there’s fire pits to keep you warm…
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Jaffle Symposium: Fatbergs & Three Cheese Jaffles
Jaffle Symposium: Fatbergs & Three Cheese Jaffles
The Jaffle Symposium is a curated a program of discussions, where interesting people talk about interesting things while making and eating jaffles around the open fire at Testing Grounds. A feast for your stomach, mind, planet and soul. Bringing together art, culture, science, technology and, of course, the glorious jaffle: because any discussion without food is just…
Free
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Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven
Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven
Presented by Professor Arun Ram, with live music performed by Joshua Hooke This performance will take you back to the salons of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn in Berlin, 1828, to a gathering of some of the greatest scientific and musical minds of the day. In the year 1828, Alexander von Humboldt set up a hut…
Free