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STEM Workshops: Lego robotics & coding, storytelling with Scratch Jr, Makey Makey and beginners robotics for adults

Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, Australia

STEM Workshops: Lego Robotics & Coding, Storytelling with ScratchJr, Makey Makey and Beginners Robotics for Adults. Can you program a robot? Can you wire up tech using everyday objects? Can you tell a story on Scratch? To celebrate National Science Week, Scienceworks is offering a suite of fun robotics and coding workshops on Sunday afternoons…

$20 – $40

Mad About Science Show

Mornington Peninsula Libraries Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia

A jam packed show of big WOW science madness. The show is designed to immerse children in science, it is full of demonstrations and includes some hands on participation. 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…

Free

Big Reactive Chemistry Show

Mornington Peninsula Libraries Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia

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!

Free

Makers Club: Arduino and Raspberry Pi

Carlton Library 667 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, VIC, Australia

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.

Free

Make a video game with Bitsy

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

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.

Free

Mad About Science presents The Big Science Show

Pakenham Library Cnr John and Henry Streets, Pakenham, VIC, Australia

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

It is Rocket Science

Kingswood College 355 Station Street, Box Hill South, VIC, Australia

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…

Free

The Insect Apocalypse – save them save humankind

All Saints Church 466 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, VIC, Australia

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…

Free
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Rock Out with the Robot

Mornington Peninsula Libraries Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, Australia

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.

Free
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Extrasensory

Parliament of Victoria Spring Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

$10

Apollo 11 + Prof Alan Duffy Q&A @ IMAX Melbourne

IMAX Melbourne Rathdowne Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia

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…

Free

The Universe and the Future of Space

Briars Outdoor Education Camp 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, Australia

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…

$100
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