The Art of Science Outreach
2018-08-15 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Mantra Hotel, 25 Mountjoy Parade, Lorne, VIC, Australia
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 Week Storytime: Stratford Library
2018-08-15 09:30 - 22:15 | Stratford Library, 70 Tyers Street, Stratford, VIC, 3862, Australia
Wellington Shire Libraries will be conducting science themed Storytime sessions all week to celebrate National Science Week 2018. Stories, rhymes & crafts will all have a scientific spin this week.
45 minutes sessions will be held across all six branches.

Stratford Library Wednesday 15 August @ 9.30am
Sale Library Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 August @ 10.30am
Maffra Library Thursday 16 August @ 11.00am
Yarram Library Thursday 16 August @ 11.00am
Rosedale Library Friday 17 August @ 10.30am
Heyfield Library Friday 17 August @ 10.30am

Sessions are free and open to all pre-school aged children.

Science Week Storytime: Sale Library
2018-08-15 10:30 - 2018-08-16 11:15 | Sale Library, 70 Foster Street, Sale, VIC, 3850, Australia

Science Festival - Game Changers Hypothetical
2018-08-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Terrace Lounge (Level 1, Walter Boas Building), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
The ‘Sustainability Hype’ is a scenario-based, improvised, interactive panel event, and in Science Week 2018 the Hype will explore how Game Changers and Change Makers deal with the challenges of new technologies, extreme weather, and environmental change.
The Hype brings together experts and practitioners in different fields, and puts them on the spot in an engaging, provocative, and fun format. Through our interactive media tools the audience becomes a key player in the storyline and in the end… anything can happen.
Come and be part of the hype for National Science Week, and change the game!
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

Citizen Science: People-Power Building Knowledge of Nature
2018-08-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia
Do you like fishing or diving? Fancy fossil hunting? Interested in bird or frog calls? If you are curious about the natural world and want be part of a bigger picture then there is a citizen science project that needs you!
In National Science Week museum experts Di Bray, Erich Fitzgerald and Karen Rowe will introduce citizen science projects; Redmap for marine monitoring, Palaeontology digs for finding fossils and Communities Listening for Nature for recording and analysing nature sounds.
Come along to hear what these wildlife projects are achieving around Australia.

Science Festival - Vision Science Workshop
2018-08-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Room 310, Level 3, Alice Hoy Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
Join staff of the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences for a fascinating, live demonstration of the microscopic structures of the living human eye, and how we go about testing some of the eye’s basic visual functions (e.g. perception of colour and 3D). You will also be introduced to a number of situations where our eyes appear to give us false information about the world around us, and consider what this tells us about how the eye and brain functions.
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

Coding For Kids
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Mooroolbark Library, 7 Station Street, Mooroolbark, VIC, 3138, Australia
Do you love coding, or have you always wanted to give it a try? Come along for an afternoon of coding fun! Create projects with Scratch and play games to learn new skills. No prior experience with coding is needed, and laptops are provided.

Space Explorers
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Boronia Library, Park Crescent, Boronia, VIC, 3155, Australia
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.

Crazy Chemistry at Deer Park Library
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, 3023, Australia
Want to learn how to make a lava lamp, or see some elephant toothpaste? Come to Deer Park to create some crazy chemical reactions!

Slime Time at St. Albans Library
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | St. Albans Library, 71A Alfrieda Street, St. Albans, VIC, 3021, Australia
Have fun creating all sorts of slime to squish, stretch, probe, poke and play with.

Citizen Science Workshop: Glen Waverley
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Glen Waverley Library, 112 Kingsway, Glen Waverley, VIC, 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 in the documenting and preserving Australian species. Join us at Glen Waverley Library to discover Frog Census and Snap Send Solve App.

Lego: Sturdy Tower Challenge
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Clayton Library, 9-15 Cooke Street, Clayton, 3168
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.

Bargoonga Nganjin Code Club
2018-08-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library, 182/186 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC, 3068, Australia
Learn how to code in this fun after-school program for kids aged 9 – 12 years. Bookings essential.

Weird Science with Makey Makey
2018-08-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Thomastown Library, 52 Main Street, Thomastown, VIC, 3074, Australia
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 your very own crazy invention with a Makey Makey!

Change Your Game
2018-08-15 16:30 - 17:30 | Sustainable Activity Centre, 1/44 Lincoln Causeway, Gateway Island, Wodonga, VIC, 3690, Australia
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.

Science Festival - Maths Arcade
2018-08-15 17:30 - 19:30 | mathSpace, Peter Hall Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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 and fun. Supported by the most excellent Pac-people at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).
See the full list of events for Science Festival.

Mount Alexander College Science Showcase
2018-08-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Mount Alexander College, 167-175 Mt Alexander Road, Flemington, VIC, 3031, Australia
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 a vertical curriculum allowing students from a range of ages to mix and work together in their chosen subjects. Science electives at MAC are strongly student-led and provide a large variety of interest points.
This showcase will be a roaming event for the school community and other visitors to see students present work they have created in their science subjects and run interactive displays for visitors to interact with.
Some exhibitions include:

Grossology projects in Medicine and Disease
Testing fingerprints and blood spatter in Forensics
Student designed experiments from VCE classes
Chemistry performance, bangs and booms
Physics light and smoke show
Secrets behind Australian banknotes

Science Around Us - Science Above Us
2018-08-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Elmhurst Primary School, 48 Byerly Street, Elmhurst, VIC, 3469, Australia
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 demonstrate an aspect of science knowledge in everyday life – Science Around Us. Robert Holmes from the Talbot Observatory will set up telescopes to observe the night skies for Science Above Us.
Visitors and participants will have the opportunity to move around the Expo activities and participate in the observatory. Elmhurst Primary School Council will cater for the event.

Humans 2.0
2018-08-15 18:00 - 22:00 | 524 Flinders Event Space, 524 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
INVENT. EVOLVE. DECIDE.
Augmented brains and bodies, or a return to nature? Cyber or solar? Humans 2.0 – what is the future of our species?

Wearables, transplantables, cognitive enhancement, robot assistants, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. In this speculative story telling event, how will you define what is human, and decide what is dead or alive?
Hear about new modes of communication, sports and transport which may be available to future humans. Augment yourself using the latest in AR technology, dance off with artificial intelligence, and experience new visual phenomena only perceivable using virtual reality.
Check out future artefacts and prototypes while grabbing a drink at the psi-bar. Speak with experts to invent your own stories, ponder our place in an increasingly automated world, and discover how we could feed the planet’s ever increasing human population.
Will we enter a new age of sustainability and loving connection with the natural world while grappling with climate change? Dig in the soil and listen to the rivers to glimpse possible neo-sustainable and naturophilic communities of tomorrow.
Inspired by the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Humans 2.0 invites audiences to imagine beyond Frankenstein’s monster to what it will mean to be human in the next century.
Humans 2.0 is presented by the Victorian Coordinating Committee for National Science Week and The Royal Society of Victoria, and supported by Phoria.
This is a free event, but registrations are essential.

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SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ The University of Melbourne
2018-08-15 18:00 - 22:00 | Forum Theatre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, 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.

FACT VS FICTION: What does the future hold?
2018-08-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Newport Community Hub, 13 Mason Street, Newport, VIC, 3015, Australia
The future is with us now. What does it hold for us? Is it inevitable or do we have an active role to play in shaping a future that will nurture human existence and a healthy planet?
Much science fiction has predicted a life that for us is now common place. How do these writers now see our existence and what is the relationship then between science fact and science fiction?
Two extraordinary women, sci fi writer Isobelle Carmody and CSIRO Senior Economist Katherine Wynn, share their predictions for our future and explore the relationship between science fact and fiction.
Bookings: 1300 462 542 or online

The Future of Space Travel
2018-08-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
Let’s Torque and Sisters in Science present an exciting panel discussion on a topic that humans have puzzled over for centuries: space exploration. What are we doing in space? What might we find? What are the consequences? And, how can we best collaborate as we move further into the unknown?
For National Science Week Let’s Torque and Sisters in Science are joining forces to deliver an exciting panel discussion on a topic that humans have puzzled over for centuries: space exploration.
We’ll be asking what humans are doing in space currently, why we’re there, and what we might find. We’ll ponder the implications of humanity entering space and visiting other planets, and weigh up the pros and cons in an interactive dialogue. We’ll also discuss the importance of collaboration in space exploration, why diversity makes us more effective and how we can communicate across the globe to include everyone in the future of space travel.
About the organisers
Let’s Torque is a student-run undergraduate public speaking competition in which participants deliver a talk on a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or medicine (STEMM) idea and its potential impact on society.
Sisters in Science is a student-run organisation which aims to connect high school aged girls with women who work in STEMM fields.

Scinema International Science Film Festival @ Swan Hill Regional Library
2018-08-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Swan Hill Library Service, 53 Campbell Street, Swan Hill, VIC, 3585, Australia

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Whitefriars College
2018-08-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Whitefriars College, 156 Park Road, Donvale, VIC, 3111, Australia

A new view of life: Celebrating the end of Kepler and Cassini, and start of Tess
2018-08-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Briars Astronomy Centre and Observatory, 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, 3934, Australia
NASA is set to land in Mount Martha for National Science Week, with two inspiring scientists from the Cassini and Kepler planetary spacecraft missions delivering the annual Science Week public lecture about the learnings so far and the implications for the future.
Two NASA mission scientists are on course for Victoria, bringing Saturn to the Gold Fields, Titan to the CBD, and a glimpse of the active hunt for new worlds to the south-east and Peninsula regions of the state.
With tantalising prospects of life being found elsewhere in our own solar system, these two inspiring scientists are extending the search further afield by hunting for new planets around other stars in the sky.
The Kepler Space Telescope has been fervently scanning the heavens for over nine years now, and its onboard fuel supply is about to run out, ending its life. In April this year, NASA launched a successor spacecraft mission called TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and it promises to bring the latest and most sensitive technology to bear in the search for other Earth-like worlds elsewhere in our galaxy.
Dr. Megan Bedell and Dr. Ben Montet will bring you to the forefront of humanity’s search for other worlds and the implications of what it could mean for all of us.
What did we learn from the Cassini spacecraft’s 13 years with Saturn? How did it feel to watch Cassini’s “death dive” into Saturn’s atmosphere last year? What makes the moon Titan Earth-like? How did scientists discover active, icy plumes on the moon Enceladus? What have we learned from the hundreds of planets discovered by the orbiting Kepler Space Telescope? How will the information beamed back to Earth continue to advance science once Kepler runs out of fuel this year?
Audiences will hear from visiting NASA scientists from the Cassini and Kepler missions at a series of events in Victoria. With the announcement of Australia’s very own space agency, it’s a timely look at the international context of our contribution to furthering humanity’s understanding of the Universe.
This talk is the annual National Science Week public lecture hosted by the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society as part of their monthly meeting at the Briars Astronomy Centre in regional south-eastern Victoria.
Members of the public are cordially invited to attend this community event. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.
The venue is marked on Google Maps and on the Melways at map reference 151/E1.

Making Maths More Meaningful
2018-08-16 09:00 - 18:00 | Building 260, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkley Street, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
The course will teach the essential skills and strategies needed to convey the fruits of mathematical research to the media, government, research-funding bodies and the public.
The one-day mathematics workshop starts at 9am and concludes at 5pm.
​Among other things, the comprehensive course will cover fundamental principles of communicating the basics of mathematics. Participants will be taken through the rudiments of linear algebra and calculus, thus equipping them with the confidence and media savvy required to explain and communicate mathematics clearly and simply to STEM students and others.
Hands-on training will be provided in talking about mathematics and writing about it for many outlets, including in-house, local and international publications and the digital media.
Examples will be drawn from key mathematics textbooks by leading publishers.
Participants completing the course will acquire valuable skills, including those needed to liaise with mathematics students and prepare successful textbooks.
Worked examples, reference materials, background notes and a certificate will be provided.

Go Girl Go for IT
2018-08-16 09:30 - 15:30 | Deakin University, Burwood campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia
A free expo provided by the Vic ICT for Women for school girls from Years 5 to 12, to identify all the opportunities available to them if they choose a career in technology.
The day provides a range of interactive, innovative and inspiring workshops and presentations highlighting a variety of roles, skills and opportunities included in the field of technology. Buses are also subsidised so that schools are not disadvantaged if they can not afford the transport. This stops girls for missing out.
The whole event is sponsored and we have industry leaders supporting and presenting on the day. Teachers are also supported with sessions provided to identify support available to them as well. Go Girl also provides an avenue for many other NFP organisations, who support the same values to be linked with the schools. Groups such as RoboGals, Girl Geek Academy, Code the Future, Girls who Code, Flying Robot School and more.
A truly unique and sensational program that is helping to develop a pipeline for girls and women in technology. This program is only run every second year so don’t miss out!

Life, Magnified: Using light microscopy to investigate biology and disease
2018-08-16 09:30 - 2018-08-17 12:30 | Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
A picture tells a thousand words! Come and learn about the smallest details of the human body and how it can all go wrong. Visit research labs, meet young researchers as they take you through their experiments and use our microscopes to make your own images to take home with you.
Join us to learn how researchers are using light microscopy to investigate the biology of the body and how diseases are caused. Light microscopy can produce some wonderful images, but they can also tell us a lot about what we are interested in. After all – A picture tells a thousand words!
This event, hosted by the at the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne, follows a scientific experiment from start to finish through a series of hands-on workstations. These workstations include:

a visit to active research labs
students learn about the structures of the cell and how we can visualise them
students get to use a $1 million microscope
students take their own images and print them out to take home.
presentations from young researchers as they take students through the design, implementation and interpretation of their experiments.

This event is aimed at Year 9 & 10 students and is limited to groups of 10 students per teacher. Schools may arrange multiple groups, as long at the 10:1 ratio is maintained.

Innovation Hub - Try Out Tour
2018-08-16 10:00 - 18:00 | Innovation Hub, Ground Floor, Building E, Docker St Campus GOTAFE, Wangaratta, VIC, 3677, Australia
Come along and participate in a hands on tour of the new Innovation Hub. You will get to use the new digital fabrication equipment including 3D printers, a laser cutter, CNC router, vacuum forming machine and a t-shirt printer.
Our Story
In our endeavour to develop a new digital fabrication space, we looked to the worldwide Maker Movement. We found it resonated with our core business values of a collaborative working space for students, local business, industry and the community at large.
Digital disruption, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things and the need to be responsive to product development and lead times were all considered when designing the GOTAFE Innovation Hub.
We are proud to provide a start up space where people can develop ideas from concepts through to the design, construction and prototyping phases combined with web page design and marketing.
Our vision is of a one stop shop where people from all walks of life can come together to learn and grow in a safe non-threatening space.

Science Week Storytime: Yarram Library
2018-08-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Yarram Library, 156 Grant Street, Yarram, VIC, 3850, Australia
