SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Wimmera Regional Library
2019-08-13 15:30 - 17:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Wimmera Regional Library, 5 Clarence Street, Nhill, 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.
Booking required. Please contact the venue for booking details.

STEM FAIR @ Niddrie Library
2019-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Niddrie Library, 482 Keilor Road, Niddrie, VIC, Australia
Build, play and explore. Get hands-on with engineering, robotics and more. Make a UV kid and slime to take home.
Want to try robotics? Build a tower or a castle with planks? Explore UV light with amazing colour-changing beads! To celebrate National Science Week, come to the STEM Fair to explore a range of activities in this hands-on session. Make some slime and a UV kid to take home.

Up close bushland animal experience - STEAM
2019-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Boronia Library, Park Crescent, Boronia, VIC, 3155, Australia
Come along to this interactive hands on experience with some of Australia’s unique wildlife – up close and personal. We’ll learn about ecosystems, adaptation and the impact of humans on the environment.
Some of the animals that may attend (not all will be present!) include: spiny leaf stick insects, Flinders Range scorpions, green tree frogs, blue tongue lizards, olive pythons, fresh water crocodile, tawny frogmouth, golden brushtail possum, eastern grey kangaroo and more.
Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Twisted Science presents BUBBLEMANIA
2019-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Emerald Library, 400B Belgrave-Gembrook Road, Emerald, VIC, Australia
So much science to learn with bubbles! Can they be square? Find out with your own bubbleator and bubble sculpting challenges.

Create your own portable speaker
2019-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, 3023, Australia
Explore the physics of sound and try some DIY electronics to create a portable speaker to take home.

Space Explorer Green Screen
2019-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Thomastown Library, 52 Main Street, Thomastown, VIC, 3074, Australia
Learn how to use green screen technology to put yourself in space! Learn how green screen works technology works, get tips on selecting a great background, and then create a composite photo of yourself with a space background.
For ages 8+. Bookings essential.

Mad About Science presents The Big Science Show
2019-08-13 16:30 - 17:30 | Endeavour Hills Library, Raymond McMahon Boulevard, Endeavour Hills, VIC, Australia
A jam packed 60 minute show of big WOW science madness. There’s giant smoke vortices, levitating beach balls, flying toilet paper, flour fireballs, hair-raising electricity, and lots of learning. We end with FIRE! Learn about the fire triangle, and how flour can burn under the right conditions.

Bioinquisitive Community Lab Space talk and workshop
2019-08-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Sydenham Library, 1 Station Street, Taylors Lakes, VIC, 3038, Australia
An interactive session for students and adults interested in DIYbio and the biohacking movement.

Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society
2019-08-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society was founded in 1969 with the aim of fostering the study of Astronomy by amateurs and promoting the hobby of amateur Astronomy to the general public. This astronomy night will celebrate 50 years of Astronomy on the Mornington Peninsula.

The Future of Plastic
2019-08-13 18:30 | Glyn Davis Theatre (B117), Glyn David Building (Melbourne School of Design), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Thanks to campaigns like The War on Waste, plastic has become public enemy number one. Plastic waste is indeed a global environmental – and potentially health – problem, requiring us to change long-held wasteful habits, alongside significant political will and innovative solutions. But what of the other side to plastic – its astonishing variety of form and uses, from electronics to transport to buildings to emerging renewable energy solutions? Do we need to give plastic the flick for good or do we just need to be smarter about the kinds of plastics we produce, and how, where, and what we use them for?
We are hosting panelists from a mix of backgrounds with expertise in key sub-themes of this, including:

The long-term environmental impacts of plastic
Potential solutions to the plastic waste problem
New and emerging plastics and applications
Health risks from plastics

Launching Into Science
2019-08-14 09:00 - 10:00 | Kingsley Park Primary School, Franciscan Avenue, Frankston, VIC, Australia
The event will be run during school hours and later that night. Seniors will help demonstrate activities and lead the school in developing their science skills through hands on activities and the night will involve a race “mission” to the Moon, winner being drawn out of a hat “rocket”.

Launching into Science will run during school hours and will be videoed so it can be shown on open night, showcasing the activities conducted throughout the day by the students to the wider community. The activities lead by the seniors will involve Prep to Year 6 and include a rotation of engaging, hands on activities, experiments and problem solving projects which demonstrate a wide range of the curriculum further developing passion and knowledge for everything that science has to offer.
During the day, these activities will challenge those to think deeper, problem solve and predict outcomes based on their observations and prior knowledge. The Year 5/6 students will work alongside teachers to demonstrate activities and each group will consist of house groups, ensuring there is a mixture of year levels, so the older students may assist the younger ones.
The open night will involve a race “mission” to the moon, where each participant will receive clues at each station upon completion, getting them closer to the ‘moon’. The winner will be drawn out of a hat “rocket” at the end of the night.

Virtual Reality Mars Tour
2019-08-14 10:00 - 2019-08-16 15:00 | Rosebud Library, McDowell Street, Rosebud, VIC, Australia
Come and experience an amazing Virtual Reality tour of Mars. You will wear the Oculus Go headset to view the crystal clear optics and state-of-the-art 3D graphics, making it feel more like a personal theatre.
Hello Mars highlights:

all 3D data & landing procedures of Hello Mars were created strictly based on NASA’s public data & research
experience the “7 minutes of terror” Mars landing sequence in VR with real-time rendered graphics and spatial sound effects
prepare yourself as a space pilot in the actual landing simulation lab
voyage through the distinctive Martian terrain surface with the Curiosity Mars Rover
learn more about the spacecrafts and historic Mars missions via the interactive VR showroom.

Body and Senses Storytime - Keilor Library
2019-08-14 10:30 - 11:00 | Keilor Library, 704B Old Calder Highway, Keilor, VIC, 3036, Australia
Come and learn about the human body and how your senses work.
A Body and Senses themed preschool story time session where children will learn about the human body and their sense organs. They will be provided with opportunities to experiment with their sense of touch, hearing and vision using musical instruments, sensory feely bag with different textures and bubbles.

Body and Senses Storytime - Sunshine Library
2019-08-14 10:30 - 11:00 | Sunshine Library, 301 Hampshire Road, Sunshine, VIC, 3020, Australia

Body and Senses Storytime - Deer Park Library
2019-08-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, 3023, Australia

In class with...Dr Karl
2019-08-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Online, Australia
Join us as we bring TV presenter, radio reporter, (Ig) Nobel Prize winner and science communicator, Dr Karl, directly into your homes and classrooms around Australia. He will be with us to answer students’ burning questions about anything even slightly science related (and probably leave them asking many more) at our latest ‘In Class With…’ event.

Lavers Hill Science Week Activity Day
2019-08-14 11:00 - 15:00 | Lavers Hill K12 College, College Drive, Lavers Hill, VIC, Australia
Mixed age groups from Prep to Year 10 (11/12 if available) – divided into four groups. Not kinda kids. Parents to be invited in for the day and participate in activities.
Set up four activities in Periods 3, 4, 5, 6. Each group to do every activity once, and rotate around.
Doing activities will require breaking into pairs or groups of 3-4 in each period.
Activities are as follows:

Construction Contest – to build the tallest stable structure from materials supplied (straws, cardboard tubes, string, tape etc). Measure the heights of the successful free standing structure. Tablulate the results.
It’s a small world after all – explore the history of microscopes, set up and demonstrate with a variety of objects to view. Include magnifying glasses, stereo and monocular microscopes, digital microscopes etc. Learn about the Biology of cells.
Chemistry – Make slime (something to take home) and oobleck.
Geology and fossils – examine specimens of rocks and minerals. Fossil bones hidden in a sand box to find. Make models of dinosaurs (buy kits). Make fossil casts using plaster of paris.

Sustainable Shopping Workshop
2019-08-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Hastings Library, 7 High Street, Hastings, VIC, Australia
Are you wanting to discover simple ways of looking after your own space – our space – planet Earth?
Come along and learn some tricks on how to become a more sustainable shopper. You will learn simple ways to make simple changes when you shop that can have big, sustainable impacts on our world by reducing waste, reducing food miles and making ethical choices. Create your own ‘no sew’ sustainable produce bag to use on your next shop and take home a goody bag including valuable links, DIY ideas and some sustainable items to help you on your way – plus a renewed sense of motivation and empowerment!

UMWELTEN - Eco-fields and other Universes
2019-08-14 13:00 - 2019-08-31 17:00 | Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Level 8, Room 16 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Felicity Spear, in her exhibition Umwelten – eco-fields and other universes, has created circular paintings on wood, encircled by profiles of the human skull. They are speculations about the possibilities for other habitats or other universes beyond our sensorium at either a micro or macro level.
In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll introduced the concept of the umwelt to describe the small subset of the world which an animal is able to detect. This word expresses a simple but often overlooked observation; different animals in the same ecosystem tune in to different environmental signals which are fundamental to their communication and signification. While we accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented, so much goes undetected in our lives.
Our sensorium is enough to get by in our ecosystem, but is does not approximate the larger picture. The more science taps into the hidden channels of the electromagnetic spectrum, the more it becomes clear that our brains are tuned to detect a surprisingly small fraction of the surrounding reality. So the idea of the umwelt also captures the idea of unseen possibilities. Spear’s paintings map an eco-field of umwelten, creating a possible ecosystem of other universes.

Hydrogen - Rocket Fuel
2019-08-14 15:30 - 19:00 | Gippsland Tech School, Princes Drive and Monash Way, Morwell, VIC, 3840, Australia
This event will introduce participants to the future of hydrogen as a transport fuel.
Come and learn about hydrogen fuel production, why hydrogen is a clean fuel and how we store emissions.
See a new Toyota Mirai car, powered by hydrogen.

Hydraulic lifts and robot arms
2019-08-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, VIC, 3023, Australia
Come and learn about the principles of hydraulics as you watch a robotic arm demonstration, and create your own hydraulic lifts.

Robogals
2019-08-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Hampton Park Library, Stuart Avenue, Hampton Park, VIC, Australia
Come along and join the Robogals for an interactive, fun Robotics workshop using LEGO mindstorms.

STEM Fair @ Avondale Heights Library and Learning Centre
2019-08-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Avondale Heights Library and Learning Centre, 69-79 Military Road, Avondale Heights, VIC, Australia

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Gisborne Library
2019-08-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Gisborne Library, 8 Hamilton Street, Gisborne, VIC, Australia
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.
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.
No booking required. Please contact the venue for further info.

Family Science Fair
2019-08-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Warrnambool East Primary School, Ward Street, Warrnambool, VIC, 3280, Australia
Students are invited to complete a science fair project and present it on Wednesday evening. Families and friends are invited to wander around and explore the students findings. There will be an activity or two to participate in and tea available to purchase on the night.
Students and their families have been invited to undertake the homework task of completing a science fair project. On Wednesday evening we will have all of the projects set up and the students will present them as families and friends wander around the room.
There will also be:

a documentary about the Moon playing
facts about the Moon displayed
dinner supplied at a small cost

One Small Step
2019-08-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston, Victoria, 3199, Australia
Dr Peter Skilton of the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society will talk about the Moon landings and astronomy.
Bookings open on Tuesday 30 July 2019.

Meteorites
2019-08-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston, Victoria, 3199, Australia
Meteorites: Where they come from, the different types and some famous impacts. The talk will be illustrated with some real meteorites that can be viewed and handled after the talk. You will be amazed where some meteorites come from and you will definitely want to take a picture holding something “out of this world”
Biography
Trevor Hand has been a regular presenter at public star gazing events for the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society (MPAS) in Victoria, Australia, for ten years and has been an invited guest speaker at several other astronomical societies and radio stations. More recently, he has made a number of appearances as an enrichment speaker on cruise ships in the Australia and New Zealand regions. He has a broad knowledge of all things astronomical and is particularly well known for his “hands on” presentations, using his collection of meteorites and space memorabilia to add a touch of “reality” to his talks.
Bookings open on Tuesday 30 July.
Image credit: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA

Psychtalks stories from the cosmos: What Indigenous storytelling can teach us about memory, our highways and ourselves
2019-08-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
For over 65,000 years, the night’s sky has served as a map for Indigenous peoples all around the world. Aboriginal Australians plotted the absence and presence of stars to develop celestial maps for navigation to survive the harsh Australian landscape. In doing so, Aboriginal Australians built complex knowledge systems using signals from the sky and the landscape to recall and pass on significant knowledge, cultural values and wisdom.

The oral tradition of dreaming and songlines are deeply tied to the Australian landscape and night’s sky, and this form of communication has endured phenomenally with memories being passed down from generation to generation to safeguard an encyclopaedic memory of water holes, walking routes and thousands of species of plants and animals across Australia.

Cultures around the world have long grouped stars into familiar patterns. Curiously, many of these constellations are perceived in strikingly similar ways, despite the cultures being geographically and temporally separated. Could this have something to do with psychological pattern recognition? And can we use the same method to encode our own memories in the modern world?

STEM together and star gazing evening
2019-08-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Holy Trinity Lutheran College MPC, Trinity Drive, Horsham, VIC, Australia
A family night encouraging participation in STEM, space and science. Have a go at hands-on STEM tasks, explore the night’s sky, problem solve and get thinking about science. A great chance to share science together.
An evening event, encouraging students and parents to get involved in STEM activities, problem-solving and critical thinking.
Families will have the opportunity to build, create, solve and explore a range of activities based around STEM concepts and space.
You can also go outside and explore the night’s sky, learning about the constellations and looking at these more closely.
A great opportunity to explore STEM with your family.
