Watch chemicals react in a big way! See impressive colour changes, smell invisible gasses and hear some oh-mighty noises. Learn about the conversion of reactant molecules to products and the energy changes involved, all while watching shooting foam, hissing fire, and cool blue light. Reactive chemistry at its exciting best!
Are you curious about learning how to use Arduino microcontrollers, or experimenting with Raspberry Pi to create projects? Come and try our beginner equipment. If you are booking to use one of our Arduinos, you’ll need to BYO laptop with the free Arduino software installed. Bookings essential.
Bitsy is a free online editor for little games or worlds. Learn how to create your first indie game using this simple yet powerful game engine. BYO, or borrow one of ours. Ages 12+. Bookings essential.
A jam packed 60 minute show of big WOW science madness. There’s giant smoke vortices, levitating beach balls, flying toilet paper, flour fireballs, hair-raising electricity, and lots of learning. We end with FIRE! Learn about the fire triangle, and how flour can burn under the right conditions.
Free fun for school and kinder kids. Demonstrations, hands-on activities and afternoon tea. Build and launch your own mini rocket. A fun and free afternoon of demonstrations, hands-on activities and challenges, some (homemade) rocket launches and an astronomical afternoon tea. Can you put the planets in order? Can you build a Mars rover? Want to…
Learn about using science in your garden to save the planet. Due to climate change our world faces mass extinctions of our smallest animals – insects. So, who cares? Surely, we are better off without flies, mosquitoes, spiders and ugh! bugs. Not so – each tiny insect plays a vital role. Join our Space Science…
Meet our humanoid robot NAO: discover how it’s programmed to think and learn what it can do! Bust a move or two with NAO.
Augment your reality. AI, bionics and smart devices are here to extend and enhance your senses. So what are the possible futures of human perception? At this event combining performance, storytelling, and experimentation, make sense of the world of the senses, and find the limits to your own.
IMAX Melbourne invites you to celebrate National Science Week and all things space exploration with a special event screening of APOLLO 11, featuring an introduction and Q&A with astronomer and science communicator Prof Alan Duffy. Saturday August 10 @ 6.45pm Presented in fully immersive IMAX 4K Digital This critically acclaimed documentary features restored never-before-seen film footage…
In the past few decades, rapid progress in technology has led to a complete change in our view of the Universe. In the next few decades, this will change even more as we become an inter-planetary species. Dr Brad Tucker will talk about some of these discoveries, from planets around other stars, to exploring the…
How is the Moon connected to the ocean? Through tides! Discover how tides work and how they influence the plants and animals that call the ocean home by visiting the Queenscliff Marine Station Community Day during National Science Week. Visitors can chat with a marine science expert from Deakin University and the Victorian Fisheries Authority and…
Care for a spot of frog calling, water bug identification, bird watching, or koala spotting? Meet NASA Scientist Dr Darlene Lim to learn about life in extreme Earth habitats and beyond! The Science in the Park event at the Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Reserve in Somers, will be the focus of free science activities on the Mornington…
