Can you build a Space Lander that will keep our marshmallow astronauts safe as they touch down on a distant planet? Learn all about our Solar System at the library, we will find out about our favourite planets, and build a model Solar System together.
Want to learn how to make a lava lamp, or see some elephant toothpaste? Come to Deer Park to create some crazy chemical reactions!
Have fun creating all sorts of slime to squish, stretch, probe, poke and play with.
Be a part of our Citizen Science project. Frogs are indicators of the health of the environment. Many of Australia’s wetlands and waterways are under threat. With the use of technology, primary aged children are helping to document and preserve Australian species. With your phone, iPad or any other device, you can help in the documenting…
Do you like challenges? Do you like playing with Lego? Join us at Clayton library and design your own Sturdy Tower to support a stack of books. Children aged between 5 to 8 will work alone, in pairs or teams to build some amazing structures.
Learn how to code in this fun after-school program for kids aged 9 – 12 years. Bookings essential.
How can you use a banana to control a computer? With a Makey Makey! Come and create your very own unique invention to control a computer to play music. Makey Makeys are invention machines that allow you to use drawings, foil, fruit and vegetables to control a computer to play music. Come and try making…
Here’s a ‘Game Changer’…What if you could start your own Makerspace without the fancy tech? Eco Inquire’s pop-up Makerspace is a free National Science Week event. The event aims to support families and educators to design STEM projects and source free and reusable supplies from the community.
The MATHS ARCADE is a night of everyone’s favourites: computer games and mathematics! Just like a rad video arcade back in the day, we’ll have heaps of awesome games, and you don’t even need any coins. Come and compete to get your initials in the Hall of Fame! There will be plentiful food, drinks, maths…
A roaming interactive event run by students focusing on what they are learning in there science subjects. Some exhibitions include, Grossology, testing fingerprints and blood spatter, student designed experiments, bangs and booms, light and smoke, secrets behind the Aussie bank note. Mount Alexander College is preparing students for the 21st century. Classes are organised against…
Elmhurst Primary School Science Expo has been created as part of our Term 3 science program with the Year 6 students co-ordinating the event. We will be working with the Talbot Observatory to look look at our night skies. Students from local schools have been invited to participate by designing and conducting an activity to…
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Augmented brains and bodies, or a return to nature? Cyber or solar? Humans 2.0 - what is the future of our species?
