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50 Year Commemoration of Lunar Landing

The Radio Amateurs of the Tablelands Radio & Electronics Club, in Far North Queensland are commemorating the 50th year since the Lunar Landing, by operating a special event call sign on the Radio Amateur bands. The callsign for this station is Vi50ML. All licenced Radio Amateurs are invited to join in by establishing radio contact…

Hands On Science Experiments

Sydenham Library 1 Station Street, Taylors Lakes, VIC, Australia

Come and take part in a range of hands on science experiments and explore the world of STEM. For children ages 5-12.

Free
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Gardening Soils with pH Testing

Rosebud Library McDowell Street, Rosebud, VIC, Australia

Bring a jar of soil from home and learn how to manage the soil pH levels in your organic garden. You will have the opportunity to test your soil and optimise the health of your garden.

Free
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Young Inventors Club: Mornington Library

Young inventors The young inventors is a project based learning program that provides a hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts and math opportunity to budding young inventors. They will be using LittleBits and Micro:BBC boards to invent objects such as a self driving art machine or a cardboard inch worm. This is a 6 week program…

free

Moonhack

Online , Australia

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing by building your own space-themed game. Get together with your friends, download the step-by-step instructions, and learn to code your own game. In 2018 we broke the record for the most kids coding in a single day. Help us break the record again in 2019. Make sure…

Free

iPad and iPhone tips, tricks, hidden features

Fitzroy Library 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia

Phones and iPads can be really easy to use, but lots of their useful features are easy to miss. Bring your iPhone or iPad along for tips, tricks and hidden features that can help you get the most out of your device. Bookings essential.

Free

Footsteps on the Moon

Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, Australia

Saturday 20 July, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first time humans walked on the Moon.

This remarkable event was a watershed in human history and a technological achievement of astounding proportions: the mission went to the Moon and back with less computing power than a modern smart phone.

Celebrate this feat of human ambition and ingenuity with our special event featuring expert talks, Planetarium shows, VR experiences of the ISS, an Apollo 11 photography exhibition, telescope viewing (weather permitting) and more.

Towards an Electronic Prescription? The 2019 Graeme Clark Oration

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 1 Convention Centre Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Bioelectronics is the concept of interfacing directly with the body's own nervous system to monitor physiological signals and, as needed, modulate the electrical activity within the nervous system to alleviate symptoms of diseases. The first generation of bioelectronic systems are now treating a number of disorders, with perhaps the most familiar being cardiac pacemakers that aim to maintain a healthy heart rhythm. Pacing systems are deployed in hundreds of thousands of patients today, and reinforce the potential for bioelectronic medicine to restore health.

Expanding bioelectronics to neurological disorders like epilepsy, chronic pain and dementia is an exciting but challenging opportunity. Despite the clinical success in treating symptoms of diseases like Parkinson's, existing bioelectronic systems have several attributes that currently limit their adoption. For example, currently a skilled neurosurgeon is required to place the implant, and the device's output is relatively inflexible in contrast to the rapidly changing and reactive activity of the nervous system. Resolving these issues requires the complementary pursuit of technological innovation and scientific discovery.

Free

Black holes, gravitational waves and the fastest explosions in the universe – Royal Children’s Hospital

Ella Latham Theatre Ground Floor, The Royal Children’s Hospital 50 Flemington Road Parkville, Victoria

Dr Jeff Cooke will discuss recently announced astronomical events, including a direct image of a supermassive black hole, gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars, and other exotic phenomena, including fast radio bursts. Donation goes to the Royal Children’s Hospital. There have been several major announcements in astronomy recently, including a direct image…

$10

Room with a point of view (Open House)

The University of Melbourne Parkville, 3010

“You built me up. You changed me. You loved me. You left me. Ultimately, you used me – what else can I call it?” Explore the changing use and disuse of urban and industrial spaces, from the point of view of the buildings themselves. How does it feel to have been home to a rave,…

Free

Apollo 11 Archive Producer Stephen Slater in Conversation

Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum 439 Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, Victoria, Australia

One evening in May 2017, Stephen Slater got an unusual email from the US National Archives. NASA had left a trove of untouched Apollo 11 specific film reels sitting in cold storage, the message read. And he could access them. Slater, an archival producer and self-confessed space nerd, was “stunned.” He was at his home…

$10 – $25
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