Dr Kirsten Ellis will be running maker workshops that are accessible to all, giving people living with disability the opportunity to be creative in a safe space at Monash’s Clayton and Peninsula campuses. Options for the workshops include making a badge that will light up or even vibrate, making a musical instrument, painting by remote control…
This morning seminar will present museum scientists’ recent discoveries and will illustrate how complex patterns in sound, colour, shape and genetics can now be used to understand natural diversity. As well as sharing the wonder that researchers feel when they make new discoveries, the presentations will show how collaborations, new technology and citizen science are…
Come and hear about the importance of Bees in our world. Founder of Save the Bees Australia – Bee The Cure, Simon Mulvany is an ex ranger, gardener and beekeeper who has made it his mission to educate people about the plight of the precious pollinators, both indigenous and introduced. Bees have been humanities greatest companion…
This Talk will focus on sustainable building and renovating of homes. Our Speaker Matthew Baker is widely experienced in this field and will also discuss the Your Home guide. Your Home is your guide to building, buying or renovating a home. It shows how to create a comfortable home with low impact on the environment – economical…
Northern Bay College’s annual STEAM expo celebrates National Science Week. The expo will showcase student learning from across the five campuses of the school, focusing on the work completed in STEAM-related subjects in Years 6 – 10, including ccience, STEAM, engineering and digital technologies. A series of centrepiece expo events will also excite the young…
Build, play and explore. Get hands-on with engineering, robotics and more. Make a UV kid and slime to take home. Want to try robotics? Build a tower or a castle with planks? Explore UV light with amazing colour-changing beads! To celebrate National Science Week, come to the STEM Fair to explore a range of activities…
Participate in a variety of chemistry experiments including dry ice, giant bubbles, slime and more.
Join us for a special presentation with Dr Melanie Thompson. Be the first to see the amazing STEM sculpture created from the metals used in the CSIRO’s STEM Professionals in schools program. Learn about Dr Melanie Thompson’s microbial corrosion project conducted with the students from Sacred Heart College, Geelong, as part of CSIRO’s STEM Professionals…
Do you take food for granted? Recipe for Disaster, an interactive performative dinner experiment in the iconic ‘Mad Max’ South Lawn Car Park, which will compel you to consider this question closely. Food has the capacity to bring us together. It’s familiar, relational and cultural. In times of conflict and scarcity, it also has the…
Always wanted to have a play with creative technology, but don’t know where to start? Come along to our Creative Technologies play session for adult learners and get up close and personal with robotics, coding, Virtual Reality, 3D printing, Ozobots, LEGO Mindstorms, Mbots, Makey Makey, Airdrone, Arduino and more! This session is suitable for adults…
Anyone can contribute to science, regardless of their age or experience. Join BioQuisitive and Science For All at Monash Tech School for this hands on workshop about how everyday citizens are working to protect critically endangered species using DNA and other advanced technologies. Science For All and BioQuisitive are currently monitoring three endangered species, one of which is the Leadbeater Possum, the focus…
Deakin University is hosting three Family Science Games Nights during National Science Week. Come along to an exciting evening playing scienceboard games. Have fun with family and friends and learn some science. Each Deakin University campus will be hosting a Family Science Games night where families can play a range of science educational board games.…
