SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ City of Greater Dandenong Council
2018-08-11 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | City of Greater Dandenong Council, 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, VIC, 3175, 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 link for details.

Magnificent Microscopy: Life Under a Lens
2018-08-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Gene Technology Access Centre, GTAC, University High School, 77 Story Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, 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 August 2018. To offer the public to engage directly with practising scientists to learn about advances in life sciences, and experience first-hand the insights gained using microscopes.
Families meet world leading scientists and view microscopic samples used to research some of the most important issues facing society today. STEM researchers guide participants through the emerging advances in fields as Alzheimer’s disease, GM foods, vaccination, and treatments for cancers by demonstrating the research specimens.
Attendees bring samples in to examine using GTAC’s research grade microscopes, including scanning electron microscopes, powerful light and fluorescence microscopes, and dissecting microscopes. Trained mentors and GTAC educators help participants view samples, capture images and stimulate discussion.

Light Detectives
2018-08-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Coolart Wetlands and Homestead, Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, 3927, 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 chemical building blocks of where it’s come from as surely as a fingerprint. By splitting and decoding the rainbow of light, you can reveal the chemical elements nearby or at the other end of the Universe.
As part of this year’s Science In The Park event held at Coolart Wetlands, there’ll be demonstrations, exhibits and talks throughout the day by the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society on all sorts of topics to do with light, spectra, the chemical elements of the periodic table, astronomy and more. All done in collaboration with PrimeSCI!, Coolart Wetlands and Homestead, National Science Week and RSV/Inspiring Australia.
If you’ve wondered what we’re made of, we hope to shed a little light on it.
Additional details:
The venue is in regional/rural Victoria and is entered on the west side of Lord Somers Road. Drive carefully through the park, with the possibility of encountering wildlife. Park and check in at the visitors centre.

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society Inc.
2018-08-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Coolart Wetlands and Homestead, Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, 3927, 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.

Science in the park: wildlife counts
2018-08-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Coolart Wetlands and Homestead, Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, 3927, Australia
Care for a spot of frog calling, water bug identification, bird watching, or koala spotting?
The third annual Science in the Park: Wildlife Counts event at the Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Reserve in Somers, will be the focus of free science activities on the Mornington Peninsula catering for all ages.
PrimeSCI!, along with even more universities, state and local organisations and volunteer groups, will host a day of science seminars, science displays and hands-on activities, wildlife monitoring, and education on sustainable and indigenous practices in the unique wetland environments of the Coolart Reserve.
Ian Temby, author of Wild Neighbours, will be returning as key speaker. The event will promote the National Science Week school theme of ‘Game Changers and Change Makers’.

RMIT Open Day
2018-08-12 10:00 - 16:00 | RMIT University, Melbourne city campus, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, 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 scientific questions.

Immersive Science II: Revealing the invisible universe
2018-08-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Sale Library, 70 Foster Street, Sale, VIC, 3850, 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 in the fabric of space-time and providing unique views of the microscopic world.
Explore this Universe through the use of ground-breaking Virtual Reality technology and make new discoveries through Q&A with the speakers. Prior to the Virtual Reality tour please download the free SciVR app for your smartphone.
Please arrive from 1:30pm to get your headset ready for a 2pm start.
This program has been made possible with the generous support of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Swinburne University of Technology, State Library Victoria and ARC Centre of Excellence for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) and is supported by the Australian Government as part of National Science Week.

Immersive Science II: Revealing the invisible universe
2018-08-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Stawell Library, 7-9 Sloane Street, Stawell, VIC, 3380, Australia

Immersive Science II: Revealing the Invisible Universe
2018-08-12 13:30 - 15:00 | State Library Victoria, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

Immersive science II: Revealing the invisible universe
2018-08-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston, Victoria, 3199, Australia
Explore the Universe with ground-breaking Virtual Reality technology and make new discoveries with the virtual real-time help of Professor Alan Duffy and Dr Rebecca Allen.
Download the free Sci/VR app to your smartphone and join us at Frankston Library for this amazing experience.
This event is being provided in partnership with the State Library Victoria.

2018 Education Perfect Science Championships
2018-08-13 08:00 - 2018-08-20 16:00 | 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 Camp in Alabama!
Register for our exciting online interactive global science competition, and help us celebrate National Science Week.
Student-friendly format with content aligned to the Australian curriculum.
Awesome certificates and prizes are up for grabs, including iTunes vouchers, iPod touches and more.
Prizes: Every 500 points a student earns (a couple of hours of competing) will put them into the draw for the ultimate prize of a one week trip for two (student and guardian) to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.
Register online to get into training.

Virtual Excursion to the National Portrait Gallery
2018-08-13 09:00 - 2018-08-17 17:00 | Victoria
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 passionate people who strive to create change with their ideas, inventions and research.
Discover – who invented insect repellent?
Discuss – what changes can we make to the world and our community?
See – amazing portraits of astronomers, neuroscientists, mathematicians, astronauts, environmentalists and more!
How does it work?
Virtual Excursions are 60-minute learning programs where your group has access to a Gallery Learning Facilitator via videoconferencing.
You can connect with your:

videoconferencing system – e.g. Polycom, Tandberg or similar;
classroom PC or Mac with connected webcam and microphone;
mobile device(s) – e.g. iPads, Android tablets.

Once you’ve made a booking, the Gallery will email you more information with instructions on how to connect.

Eggs Alive!
2018-08-13 09:30 - 2018-08-21 17:00 | Kangaroo Flat Library, 267 High Street, Kangaroo Flat, VIC, 3555, 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 able to purchase an incubator and brooder. The “Eggs Alive!” project will hatch fertilised chicken eggs in a see-through incubator at Kangaroo Flat Library during National Science Week.
The newly hatched chicks will then be kept in a brooder under a heat lamp in the Library for just over a week, allowing the public to learn about the scientific aspects of the life cycle of chickens by observing, discussing and supervised holding of the chicks during opening hours.
The actual hatching will be filmed in time-lapse, which will then be shown on a loop near the chicks during this time, allowing people to see the hatching occurring if they missed it.
On Wednesday 15 August at 2pm we have a guest speaker from the Bendigo Poultry Club, Graeme Smith. Graeme is a poultry breeder of more than 48 years and is an “All Breeds” poultry judge for chicken exhibitions. Graeme will bring in a couple of adult birds for everyone to have a look at during his chat. He will discuss “showing birds”, rare breeds and how old breeds are being re-established through genetics and science, and general care and wellbeing of poultry. Any queries or questions by the public are welcomed at this informal session.
We hope with this experiment the community will learn more about poultry and the different sciences that are involved with hatching eggs such as biology (the life cycle of a chicken), climate (setting the temperature and incubator humidity) and Ecology and Agriculture (the benefits of eggs and meat and reduction in kitchen waste).
Storytimes during National Science Week will have a special chicken-inspired theme and people can also browse our poultry-themed library items on display. Kangaroo Flat Library staff can also provide feedback on the whole egg incubation process to people who might be interested in trying to hatch eggs themselves!

Truth is Stranger than Science Fiction - a NASA Scientist Tells
2018-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
People speculated about the existence of planets orbiting other Suns for hundreds if not thousands of years before they were finally confirmed. That gap left a lot of time for science fiction writers to invent their own words – mysterious planets with exotic landscapes, orbiting alien star systems. When our technology finally caught up with our imaginations, what we found was even more extraordinary than we had imagined. As science curator at the NASA Exoplanet Archive, Dr Jessie Christiansen will take you on a tour of some of the more fantastic exoplanet discoveries, including some famous, fan-favourite fictional planets brought to life.
Astrophysicist Dr Jessie Christiansen has been called the “Tomb Raider of exoplanet research”. Working at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, Jessie searchers for, studies and catalogues extrasolar planets – plants orbiting other stars. Her main research focuses on using the thousands of exoplanets found by the NASA Kepler mission to determine how common Earth-like planets might be in our galaxy. She is currently working on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which will search the entire sky to discover even more planets beyond our solar system.

Science Festival - Lunchtime Carnival
2018-08-13 12:00 - 14:00 | North Court, Tin Alley, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
This year’s Lunchtime Carnival will feature science shows, hands-on science activities and demonstrations to entice the mind and excite the taste buds.
The Science Students’ Society will be preparing a BBQ and the Faculty of Science will be making popcorn and fairy floss.
With over 10 interactive stalls showcasing the breadth of science and research at Melbourne, plus a jam-packed science show, the Lunchtime Carnival is an event not to be missed!
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

Science Activities at Clayton Library
2018-08-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Clayton Library, 9-15 Cooke Street, Clayton, 3168
What is magnetic and what is not? Will your toy slide or roll? Can you make a collection? Collect, sort, classify! Come and join us for a series of cool experiments at the Clayton Library.
Clayton Public Library Service is organising an enjoyable event for children aged between 3 to 5 years old. Families, kindergartens, carers are invited to join in and celebrate National Science Week by participating in activities linked to classifying, sorting, measuring, weighing and spinning.
With materials such as dough, Duplo blocks, 3D rainbow glasses, children will have the opportunity to conduct experiments and foster STEAM literacy.

Women in Chemistry
2018-08-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Old Library, Level 1, Chemistry Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
Interested in Chemistry? Have questions?
What about attending a lunchtime panel discussion with women staff and post graduate students in Chemistry and hear about their experiences in achieving a career and post graduate studies in Chemistry?
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

Getting the Message Out
2018-08-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Romsey Community Hub, 96 Main Street, Romsey, VIC, 3434, Australia
The course will teach the essential skills and strategies needed to convey the fruits of scientific research to the media, government, research-funding bodies and the public.
​Among other things, the comprehensive course will cover fundamental principles and “rules of the science-writing game”, thus equipping researchers and managers with the confidence and media savvy required to project messages clearly and simply.
Hands-on training will be provided in preparing articles, features and illustrative material for many outlets, including in-house, local and international publications and the digital media.
Participants completing the course will acquire valuable skills, including those needed to liaise with journalists and prepare successful pitches.
Worked examples, reference materials, background notes and a certificate will be provided.

Science Festival - Tiegs Zoology Museum Tour
2018-08-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Tiegs Zoology Museum, BioSciences 4, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
Established in 1887, the Tiegs Zoology Museum is Australia’s oldest university museum of zoology. Its collection, accumulated over 120 years, has specimens dating from the late 19th century to the present representing the whole animal kingdom, including an African lion and a moa (an extinct emu-like bird from New Zealand).
Visitors will be able to browse the collection and participate in a Treasure Hunt to locate some of the more intriguing specimens.
See the full list of events for Science Festival at the University of Melbourne.

The Science of Mine Rehabilitation
2018-08-13 15:00 - 19:00 | Gippsland Tech School, Princes Drive and Monash Way, Morwell, VIC, 3840, Australia
Rehabilitating and closing the Latrobe Valley’s brown coal mines is a complex and fascinating challenge. Understanding the science and technology behind making former mines safe, stable and sustainable will help Latrobe Valley residents plan for the future of their region.
Join Professor Rae Mackay, Latrobe Valley Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner, and special guests for a series of interactive demonstrations and seminars exploring the science and technology behind the rehabilitation of the Latrobe Valley mines.
The full program will be released closer to the event. It will feature experts from government, industry and academia, and will have events suitable for secondary and tertiary students, as well as the general public.
This event is presented by the Latrobe Valley Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner and Gippsland Tech School.

3D Print and Design Workshop
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Realm Library, 179 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, VIC, 3134, Australia
Come join us for an introduction to the basics of 3D design and printing!
You’ll learn how to create models in 3D, watch a demo of the printer in action, and design or choose a 3D model to have printed. A small print of your choice is included in the cost of this workshop.
Please allow two weeks for pick up from Realm library.

Cryo Show at Deer Park
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, 3023, Australia
Come and observe the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen and dry ice, as we use it to shrink balloons and turn bananas into hammers!
Participants will also make some liquid nitrogen ice cream to take home.

Citizen Science Workshop: Wheelers Hill
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Wheelers Hill Library, 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, 3150, Australia
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 documenting and preserving Australian species. Join us at Wheelers Hill library to discover Frog Census and Australian Museum Waterbug App.

Patterson Lakes Primary STEAM Night
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Patterson Lakes Primary School, Gladesville Boulevard, Patterson Lakes, VIC, 3197, Australia
Science transforms into STEAM! 2018 is our first annual STEAM night at Patterson Lakes Primary. We will incorporate science, technology and visual arts to make it a STEAM experience. All our stalls will be hands-on and informative. There will a sea life display, giant chess, robotics and more! Design challenges will include creating sail cars and water towers.
Our robotics team will present their latest robot dances. Our local high school, Patterson River, have committed to sending a team of students to present some science experiments.
Our chess club will have boards set up to challenge the public, with a giant chess set available for the evening. Our garden group will have a workshop where students test soil and pot their own seedlings. Our environmental science leaders are planning a stall, educating students about marine life. We have booked a sea life incursion (run by ‘Wild Action’) to run simultaneously.
Each stall will address the theme ‘Game Changers and Change Makers’ in their own way. For example, Year 6 have brainstormed that for the barrier reef, climate change and the crown of thorns starfish are game changers.
We are the change makers. All our stalls are designed to be hands-on and informative. Come and enjoy the evening with your family.

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Moreland Libraries
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Moreland Libraries, 737 Pascoe Vale Road, Glenroy, VIC, 3046, Australia

Community STEAM Evening
2018-08-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Warrnambool East Primary School, Ward Street, Warrnambool, VIC, 3280, Australia
Our community science night strives to change the way students, families and our community think about science and technology. The night is designed to provide a non-threatening environment for families to explore the importance of STEAM in our everyday lives. All students, families and friends are invited, along with our immediate community to participate in our Community Family STEAM Evening.
In our newly developed Maker Space hosting a bridge building challenge focusing on the choice of material verses pricing. Participants will be asked to build a bridge to span a 40cm gap with only the tokens they are given on the way in.
Within our Years 5/6 area there will be a focus on an aerial repopulation strategy. In this area you are asked to develop a way to get your chosen animal (plastic toy) to the island (sand patch) with the smallest amount of damage to allow for repopulation in the area.
The visual arts space will host an area to design your very own detailed diagrams of Rube Goldburg inventions. Our lab will be filled with microscopes to investigate the wonders of entomology.
A sustainability hub will encourage people to rethink their everyday choices and how they affect the future of our earth. Then finally, in the Jobs Of The Future space they will be immersed in the endless possibilities of coding and the joy of spheros.
Three Parrot MAMBO drones will also be available for families to experience.

STEM Webcam Lesson - STEM Night
2018-08-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Chelsea Primary School, 34-44 Argyle Avenue, Chelsea, VIC, 3196, Australia
Chelsea Primary School will be conducting a science fair using digital technology.
Since 2015, Chelsea PS has been a pioneer and played a major role in a global learning project between Korean students called ‘Global LYNCs (Learning Young Learners Through Net Communications)”. Chelsea PS was partnered with Sae Ron PS in Korea and both schools have been actively and enthusiastically involved in the project.
Using the program ‘Zoom’, both schools will conduct a science fair, simultaneously both in Korean and Australia. Both schools will demonstrate fun and engaging experiment based on chemical science and coding robots.
In National Science Week, we will open for a Science STEM Night for parents and community.
Students can share what they have learnt in STEM CLIL lessons by presenting their works and parents and teachers can enjoy science experiment (relevant to everyday life) which will be organised and run by Year 5 and 6 students.

Science Festival - is this your card?
2018-08-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Hercus Theatre, Physics South Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
Pick a card, any card! The immortal phrase of the magician.
In this talk, we’ll look at some some great card tricks that have simple maths behind them. This show is for all ages, so bring a deck of cards, a pen and some paper and we’ll do mathematical magic.
This event is a collaboration with ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

NASA's Planet Hunters
2018-08-13 18:00 - 22:00 | Scienceworks, 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia
This National Science Week, join NASA scientist Dr Jessie Christensen to hear about the Kepler and Cassini missions. She’ll share stories of searching for planets beyond our solar system, and how these missions have changed our view of ourselves.
After 13 years orbiting Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dived into the planet’s atmosphere last September. The Kepler Space Telescope, which has been discovering planets around other stars, will run out of fuel sometime this year.
This special event celebrates these two big missions and their extraordinary contribution to our expanding knowledge of our universe. We know now planets around other stars, even habitable ones, are far more common than previously thought, and some of the moons of Saturn may even host life.

Science Festival - The Science of Science Communication
2018-08-13 18:30 - 19:30 | Malaysian Theatre, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
Presented by A/Prof Mark Quigley and Dr Jeremy Silver from the School of Earth Sciences.
Science has the potential to assist in resolving many of the largest challenges facing contemporary society. However, relevant science is not always used to inform public opinion and decision-making. Is this because scientists do not communicate effectively to those who might seek to use their data and knowledge? Or because the general public and leaders choose to prioritise other inputs?
In this talk we will discuss our new research on science communication, including objective measures of how effectively scientists communicate and how science utility might influence our opinions of our political leaders. The scope of this talk will range from science communication in the aftermath of natural disasters to quantitative analysis of how U.S. Presidents use science in their public messaging.
See the full list of events for Science Festival.
