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Little Bang Discovery Club

Central Highlands Libraries

This four-week course gives you and your child a way to discover science together. With hands-on activities, question and answer time, a Discovery Box and book loaned to each child for the duration of the Club. Get involved and get your Discovery Club Passport stamped as you work towards the Science Fair on the last…

Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo

Melbourne Zoo Elliot Avenue, Parkville, VIC, Australia

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

Testing Grounds – First Friday of the Month

Testing Grounds 1 City Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia

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…

Free

Jaffle Symposium: Fatbergs & Three Cheese Jaffles

Testing Grounds 1 City Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia

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

Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven

Federation Hall, Theatre 205 7-17 Grant Street #5, Southbank, VIC, Australia

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

Brain Break – Deer Park Library

Deer Park Library 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, Australia

We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. Join us for a science themed quiz and a cuppa.

Free

Fatberg (displayed)

Testing Grounds 1 City Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia

Do we really understand fat? Artists Arne Hendriks and Mike Thompson invite you to join them at Testing Grounds to build Australia’s first purpose-built island of fat, and to ask – What is fat? What does it want? What is fat’s future? And do we really know fat? In November 2017, the 130-tonne ‘Monster of…

Free

Adding the A to STEM

Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library 182/186 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC, Australia

You are invited to Fitzroy North Library for an unforgettable STEAMship voyage to explore, expand upon, and inform the STEM challenges the world currently faces within all societies and for individuals just like you. Our illustrious all-female expert panel will engage you on an odyssey into the role of Artistic Creation in STEM, how Art…

Bubble science workshop with Twisted Science

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

A fun filled bubble making workshop where participants will experiment with a variety of bubble making techniques.

Free

Coffee in Space

La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga 133 McKoy Street, West Wodonga, VIC, Australia

The year is 2025, in Melbourne, Coffee Capital of the World. The Space Agency managing Australia’s new international space station assembles a panel of scientists and coffee professionals to design a coffee-making process for space-travelling coffee connoisseurs. Coffee-making in space, however, is a challenging proposition. How do you grind the coffee without coffee grounds flying…

Free

Sh*t Happens Poetry Slam

Loop Project Space & Bar 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For so long, our own waste has been a topic of embarrassment and shame. But we need to break down the taboo of poo! SH*T HAPPENS will see poets and scientists come together to celebrate our sewage, bringing excitement to our excrement and all the other wonderful creations our bodies work hard to produce. Spontaneous…

Free
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