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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…

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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…

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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

Immersive Science II: Revealing the Invisible Universe

State Library Victoria 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 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…

2018 Education Perfect Science Championships

Global

The Education Perfect Science Championships 2018 is an exciting global online competition where students compete to earn points and prizes by learning engaging and thought-provoking Science content! Join over 300 000 students from 1000 schools in the most exciting science competition on the face of the planet! One lucky student will be going to Space…

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Virtual Excursion to the National Portrait Gallery

Can’t make it to the National Portrait Gallery to celebrate National Science Week? Let us come to you on one of our virtual excursions. Explore some of the change makers in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Spend time with one of our live Learning Facilitators and meet some of the scientists, activists and…

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Eggs Alive!

Kangaroo Flat Library 267 High Street, Kangaroo Flat, VIC, Australia

Kangaroo Flat Library (Goldfields Libraries) is excited to announce that for National Science Week from the 13 – 21 August we are presenting “Eggs Alive!” Goldfields Libraries is a successful SEED grant winner and would like to share this whole experiment with the community. With the money from the SEED grant, Kangaroo Flat Library was…

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