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Lego Mindstorms with Robogals

Thomastown Library 52 Main Street, Thomastown, VIC, Australia

To kickstart National Science Week celebrations, Robogals will be leading a LEGO Mindstorms robotics workshop at Thomastown Library. Robogals is an international, student-led organisation working to raise female participation in science and engineering. Boys and girls are both welcome, with an especially warm welcome to girl participants. Beginners welcome. Bookings essential. For ages 8+.  …

Free

Fast Lane, Bowling Blast

Mornington Peninsula Libraries Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia

Bring the family along to learn about robots. We will teach you to use Ozobots, which are cool little robots that follow code written with colour markers. You can have some fun learning how to move Ozobots around, then you can participate in our family bowling tournament. How fast can your family knock down all…

Free

Bricks 4 Kidz “Game Changers and Change Makers”

Galada Community Centre 10 A Forum Way, Epping, VIC, Australia

Bricks 4 Kidz – City of Whittlesea provides a LEGO based program for primary age students. In this public event, Bricks 4 Kidz invites students of all ages to come and build technic LEGO prosthetic arms and program them using We.Do. and Mindstorms software to follow prompts. The children will create and program prosthetic arms…

Free

Lego WeDo Robots

Malvern Library 1255 High Street, Malvern, VIC, Australia

Children will design and build a working robot model then code and test their solutions using LEGO® WeDo ‘drag and drop’ pictorial programming software. Presented by Bricks 4 Kidz®. Suitable for children aged 7+ years. Children under 12 years of age must be supervised by an adult.

$5

Nao the Humanoid

Mount Waverley Library 41 Miller Crescent, Mount Waverley, VIC, Australia

Meet NAO the Humanoid and see him walk, talk, dance, dab! You can also learn how to program this fantastic robot! NAO is a 58 cm tall, autonomous and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk, dab, dance and interact with people. Monash Public Library Service is organising a series of events where children aged…

Free

Scinema International Science Film Festival @ Brimbank Libraries

Keilor Library 704B Old Calder Highway, Keilor, VIC, Australia

SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in science cinema from around the world. 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.

Free

STEM-GINEERING

The Canterbury Centre 2 Rochester Road, Canterbury, VIC, Australia

An afternoon of experimenting, building and tinkering for pre-schoolers, primary schoolers and their families to celebrate National Science Week. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for preschoolers and primary schoolers and their families. There will be exciting and mind-expanding demonstrations, fun construction and building challenges and a yummy afternoon tea!

Free

The Great Debate: Greatest Discovery Ever Made

Royal Society of Victoria 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

To celebrate National Science Week the Science Nation is going to determine once and for all what is the Greatest Discovery Ever Made. Join the fun and mayhem as the best, brightest and bravest science aficionados in the land do battle in a debate tournament of whits and wittiness. We’ve all been there, having that…

$10 – $15

Café Scientifique: The Art of Parasites – Painting a New Image

Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

Join us for this National Science Week event and the launch of the stunning artwork Gula Guri mayin “Heal the Body” by indigenous far north Queensland artist Bernard Lee Singleton and animation by Russell Milledge and Tai Inoue followed by a lively café scientifique discussion that will explore and celebrate the science of parasites and its…

Free

Café Scientifique: The Art of Parasites – Painting a New Image

Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

Join us for this National Science Week event jointly hosted by Federation University, The Art Gallery of Ballarat and The Australian Society for Parasitology for the launch of the stunning artwork Gula Guri mayin “Heal the Body” by Indigenous far north Queensland artist Bernard Lee Singleton and animation by Russell Milledge and Tai Inoue followed…

Free

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ City of Greater Dandenong Council

City of Greater Dandenong Council 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, VIC, Australia

SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in science cinema from around the world. 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. Multiple screening sessions shown throughout National Science Week, check…

Free

Magnificent Microscopy: Life Under a Lens

Gene Technology Access Centre GTAC, University High School, 77 Story Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Meet scientists, view their research samples using powerful microscopes, and discuss how their investigations are combatting important global problems. Investigate your own samples! Scientist mentors will help you investigate nature’s beauty in microscopic detail using research grade microscopes. GTAC (Melbourne) hosts two 2 hour sessions of Magnificent Microscopy: Life under a lens on Sunday 12th…

Free
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