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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

Light Detectives

Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, Australia

As part of Science in the Park, there will be demonstrations, exhibits and talks throughout the day on all sorts of illuminating topics concerned with light, rainbows and spectra and what you can deduce from them about the very building blocks of everything. Every beam of light carries a unique signature that unlocks the hidden…

Free

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society Inc.

Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, 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

Science in the park: wildlife counts

Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, Australia

Join us for a day of free science activities on the Mornington Peninsula catering for all ages.

RMIT Open Day

RMIT University, Melbourne city campus Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Visit Open Day at RMIT University during National Science Week. Experience virtual reality, peer through electron microscopes to view at nanoscale, experience the power of electric racing cars and get up-close and personal with robots. RMIT’s world class laboratories and facilities will be open to the public and our academics on-hand to answer all your…

Free

Immersive Science II: Revealing the invisible universe

Sale Library 70 Foster Street, Sale, VIC, Australia

Take a tour of the invisible Universe. We will provide everyone with a SciVR headset to take them out of this world to the world of colliding black holes and microscopic wonders. Join Professor Alan Duffy and Dr Rebecca Allen to discover how Australian scientists are leading the way in probing the Universe through ripples…

Free

Immersive Science II: Revealing the invisible universe

Stawell Library 7-9 Sloane Street, Stawell, VIC, Australia

Take a tour of the invisible Universe. We will provide everyone with a SciVR headset to take them out of this world to the world of colliding black holes and microscopic wonders. Join Professor Alan Duffy and Dr Rebecca Allen to discover how Australian scientists are leading the way in probing the Universe through ripples…

Free
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