Inspiring Victoria

International Year of the Periodic Table Expo
2019-08-11 10:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | The Odd One Out, 125 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of chemical elements. The Royal Australian Chemical Institute warmly invites you to join us to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019 at our IYPT Expo.
Did you know we need 75 elements to make a smartphone? At the IYPT you will be able to experience the Periodic Table come to life with a range of immersive experiences including: the chemistry of fireworks and chocolate, interactive experiments, chemical elements that are fundamental to everyday life, competitions and lots more for everyone of all ages.
Register your interest online.

Science in the Park
2019-08-11 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?
Meet NASA Scientist Dr Darlene Lim to learn about life in extreme Earth habitats and beyond!
The Science in the Park 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 universities, state and local organisations and volunteer groups, will host a day of science presentations, eco-tours, science displays and hands-on activities, wildlife monitoring, and education on sustainable practices in the unique wetland environments of the Coolart Reserve.
The event will run in parallel with an astronomy art/science exhibition “The Moon and Beyond” at the Coolart Homestead, to compliment the National Science Week school theme of Destination Moon.

Queenscliff Marine Station Community Day
2019-08-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Queenscliff Marine Station, 2A Bellarine Highway, Queenscliff, VIC, Australia
How is the Moon connected to the ocean? Through tides! Discover how tides work and how they influence the plants and animals that call the ocean home by visiting the Queenscliff Marine Station Community Day during National Science Week.
Visitors can chat with a marine science expert from Deakin University and the Victorian Fisheries Authority and participate in interactive activities that will be on display throughout the station. Explore the aquarium exhibits at the Marine and Freshwater Discovery Centre; where you can experience a hands-on encounter with some of the marine creatures you commonly encounter on a rock rambling walk.
Interested to learn about local marine research projects? The Community Day will also have a series of short talks from marine scientists and local community groups about the weird and wonderful marine life that call Port Phillip Bay home.
Situated on the shores of Swan Bay, the Queenscliff Marine Station is ideally-located for learning about the local marine environment and inspire interest in marine science.

The Universe and the Future of Space
2019-08-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Briars Outdoor Education Camp, 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, Australia
In the past few decades, rapid progress in technology has led to a complete change in our view of the Universe. In the next few decades, this will change even more as we become an inter-planetary species.
Dr Brad Tucker will talk about some of these discoveries, from planets around other stars, to exploring the Universe and maybe even visiting other planets, and show we are now turning science fiction into reality.
Dr Brad Tucker is an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist, and currently a Research Fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory and the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Brad received Bachelor’s degrees in Physics, Philosophy, and Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He then undertook a PhD at Mt. Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University.
He is currently working on projects trying to discover the true nature of dark energy, the mysterious substance causing the accelerating expansion of the Universe, which makes up 70% of the Universe. He’s one of the leads of the Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey, a Kepler Space Telescope Key Program, to understand why and how stars blow up. He is also leading a project to build a network of ultraviolet telescopes in the upper atmosphere, which are being built at Mt. Stromlo, a search to find Planet 9 – a hypothetical new planet on the edges of our Solar System, as well as a new mission to capture and mine an asteroid.

Apollo 11 + Prof Alan Duffy Q&A @ IMAX Melbourne
2019-08-10 18:45 - 21:00 | IMAX Melbourne, Rathdowne Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia
IMAX Melbourne invites you to celebrate National Science Week and all things space exploration with a special event screening of APOLLO 11, featuring an introduction and Q&A with astronomer and science communicator Prof Alan Duffy.

Saturday August 10 @ 6.45pm
Presented in fully immersive IMAX 4K Digital

This critically acclaimed documentary features restored never-before-seen film footage from the NASA archives, taking audiences along on the truly remarkable mission to land on the moon.
Experience one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments on the world’s largest screen in stunning IMAX quality.

Extrasensory
2019-08-10 18:00 - 22:00 | Parliament of Victoria, Spring Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002, Australia
See, hear, smell, taste, feel, more at this cornucopia for the senses.
What are the possible futures of human perception? At this event combining performance, storytelling, and experimentation, make sense of the world of the senses, and find the limits to your own.
Augment your reality. AI, bionics and smart devices are here to extend and enhance your senses. See the unseen, and walk on the surface of a cell. Find your way with your fingers, and experience next generation 3D audio and hearables.
Tell a story about the patterns hidden in the night sky, and try our virtual balance challenge. Ponder the concept of common sense, and what animals can perceive that humans can’t. Listen to the music of the elephants, the last moments of the Mars Rover, and the unfolding of the evolution of species.
Challenge your senses to work together, and become aware of senses such as kinaesthesia. Learn about how our senses mingle in synesthetic experiences, and sometimes fool us with hallucinations.
Can you maintain your appetite in the face of distinctly un-appetising pictures? Or avoid being tricked in our food sensory testing lab? Congratulate yourself with a drink from our bar, and discover why champagne is so bubblicious.
The world is full of new phenomena to explore, hiding just beyond the reach of your senses. So tune your ears, engage your nose, ready your tastebuds, and flex your fingers in preparation for an evening sure to be extra sensory at the beautiful Parliament of Victoria.
This event is recommended for a 16+ audience.
Finger food provided as part of your ticket price. Beverages will be available for purchase at the event.
Extrasensory is presented by the Victorian Coordinating Committee for National Science Week, The Royal Society of Victoria, and the Parliament of Victoria.

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EXHIBITS & EXPERIMENTS:

Skunk Control (Victoria University) – ‘Fractured Altar’ (light installation)
CBNS (Monash University) – Journey inside a cell
Dr Dominic Orth (Swinburne University) – try the virtual balance challenge
Dr Simon Cropper (University of Melbourne) – Star stories, can you find the pattern?
Arup – Pop up sound lab experience
Science Gallery Melbourne – ‘The Sewer Soaperie’
Sensilab (Monash University) – Tactile treasure maps
Rossjohn Infection and Immunity Lab (Monash University) – Immersion immunity
CASS (Deakin University) – Can you taste it? The art of sensory marketing
Tara Storey (Food Scientist) – The sound of sweetness
Dr Simon Harrison (CSIRO Data61) – ‘The Digital Human’
Dr Frank Feltham (RMIT) – Sonic Efforts: the expression of walking through sound
Dr David Sly (Swinburne University) – Next Gen 3D audio and hearables

QUEENS HALL MAIN STAGE

Elissa Goodrich (composer / vibraphone), Adam Simmons (saxophones / shakuhachi / bass clarinet), Gideon Brazil (saxophones / flute) – ‘Gene Tree Project’ – music of the evolution of species
Nicholas J. Johnson – ‘Deceptology: the neuroscience of magic’
Vicki Hallett (composer / clarinet) – ‘Elephant Trail’
Sam Colcheedas – (composer / piano) – ‘It’s getting dark’ – music of the Mars Rover
Dr David Farmer – ‘Intrasensory’ – science comedy

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

The Science of Champagne (Culinary Science)
Beer Science (Jon Seltin, Brewer)

CHAMBER TALKS PROGRAM

Dr Darlene Lim (NASA) – Sensing beyond Earth: mission Mars
Silverpond – Artificial Intelligence: the new sense?
Dr Erich Fitzgerald (Museum Victoria) – Whale sense
Dr Simon Cropper (UoM) – Slave to sense: hallucinations and synesthesia
Prof Arun Ram (UoM) – The musical sensation of mathematical discovery
Dr David Sly (Swinburne University) – Hearables: the augmented human
Dr Kate Selway (Macquarie University) – Sensing the extreme
Dr Luke Smillie (UoM) – Common sense and creativity
Dr Maddy Yewers (UoM) – Do you see what I see? Animal vision in a colourful world

Rock Out with the Robot
2019-08-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Meet our humanoid robot NAO: discover how it’s programmed to think and learn what it can do! Bust a move or two with NAO.

The Insect Apocalypse - save them save humankind
2019-08-10 14:00 - 17:00 | All Saints Church, 466 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, VIC, 3144, Australia
Learn about using science in your garden to save the planet. Due to climate change our world faces mass extinctions of our smallest animals – insects. So, who cares? Surely, we are better off without flies, mosquitoes, spiders and ugh! bugs. Not so – each tiny insect plays a vital role.
Join our Space Science expert Lachlan Thompson for a talk and Bug Safari. Learn about using science in your garden to save the planet. Due to climate change our world faces mass extinctions of our smallest animals – insects. So, who cares? Surely, we are better off without flies, mosquitos, spiders and ugh! bugs. Not so – each tiny insect plays a vital role in the health of our gardens, food crops. Ultimately healthy bugs equal healthy food for us. Bees we recognise as important for pollination yet they are rapidly declining and dying out. Human use of insecticides, plastics and other chemicals are partly to blame.
What are our options? How can each of us help these tiny warriors for good food crops? Who lives in our garden and where? What can I do to help bugs live in my yard and help the environment without the bugs annoying me? Join Professor Thompson in our science week talk to find who and what lives in your garden why we need them and how to help them.
Talk and activities can be used towards Scouts World Conservation Badge.

It is Rocket Science
2019-08-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Kingswood College, 355 Station Street, Box Hill South, VIC, Australia
Free fun for school and kinder kids. Demonstrations, hands-on activities and afternoon tea. Build and launch your own mini rocket.
A fun and free afternoon of demonstrations, hands-on activities and challenges, some (homemade) rocket launches and an astronomical afternoon tea. Can you put the planets in order? Can you build a Mars rover? Want to launch your own rocket? Come do all this, and marvel at the mysteries of space.
Hosted by the kids of the Melbourne Revival Fellowship for their friends, families and the local community.

Mad About Science presents The Big Science Show
2019-08-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Pakenham Library, Cnr John and Henry Streets, Pakenham, 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.

Make a video game with Bitsy
2019-08-10 13:30 - 15:30 | Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library, 182/186 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC, 3068, Australia
Bitsy is a free online editor for little games or worlds. Learn how to create your first indie game using this simple yet powerful game engine. BYO, or borrow one of ours. Ages 12+. Bookings essential.

Makers Club: Arduino and Raspberry Pi
2019-08-10 13:30 - 14:30 | Carlton Library, 667 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, VIC, Australia
Are you curious about learning how to use Arduino microcontrollers, or experimenting with Raspberry Pi to create projects? Come and try our beginner equipment. If you are booking to use one of our Arduinos, you’ll need to BYO laptop with the free Arduino software installed. Bookings essential.

Big Reactive Chemistry Show
2019-08-10 13:30 - 14:30 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Watch chemicals react in a big way! See impressive colour changes, smell invisible gasses and hear some oh-mighty noises. Learn about the conversion of reactant molecules to products and the energy changes involved, all while watching shooting foam, hissing fire, and cool blue light. Reactive chemistry at its exciting best!

Mad About Science Show
2019-08-10 13:30 - 14:30 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
A jam packed show of big WOW science madness. The show is designed to immerse children in science, it is full of demonstrations and includes some hands on participation.
Watch chemicals react in a big way! See impressive colour changes, smell invisible gasses and hear some oh-mighty noises. Learn about the conversion of reactant molecules to products and the energy changes involved, all while watching shooting foam, hissing fire, and cool blue light. Reactive chemistry at its exciting best!
Demonstrations include:

Dry Ice Demonstrations (Physical Change)
Colour Changes (Indicators)
Endothermic vs Exothermic Reactions: Chemical reactions that produce/absorb heat energy
Chemiluminescence & Fire: Chemical reactions that produce light energy

STEM Workshops: Lego robotics & coding, storytelling with Scratch Jr, Makey Makey and beginners robotics for adults
2019-08-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Scienceworks, 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia
STEM Workshops: Lego Robotics & Coding, Storytelling with ScratchJr, Makey Makey and Beginners Robotics for Adults.
Can you program a robot? Can you wire up tech using everyday objects? Can you tell a story on Scratch? To celebrate National Science Week, Scienceworks is offering a suite of fun robotics and coding workshops on Sunday afternoons at 1pm.
The workshops will be held on the afternoons of 10-11 and 17-18 August.

Launch to the Future
2019-08-10 11:00 - 15:00 | Scienceworks, 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia
LAUNCH TO THE FUTURE is a science sketch comedy presentation focusing on how space programs and lunar science propel us into the future using STEM! In a series of comical skits, professional actor/educators use audience suggestions to create uniquely hilarious scenes educating us about space science.

LAUNCH TO THE FUTURE! A STEM Story is an exciting, fact filled, science sketch comedy presentation that focuses on how space programs and lunar science propel us into the future using STEM!
Celebrating National Science Week and the theme: Destination Moon: more missions, more science, Launch To The Future combines high energy improvisational comedy to entertain, inspire and educate audiences through a fun and interactive live experience. Professional actor/educators use audience suggestions to create uniquely hilarious scenes that educate us on the moon and space science, inspiring audiences with the astonishing discoveries, innovations and solutions of space science and how these impact our daily lives as well as drive our future.

How space science helps to solve the unsolvable. (SCIENCE)
Innovation drives technology. (TECHNOLOGY)
Space engineering helps design new solutions. (ENGINEERING)
How maths helps to drive the future. (MATHS)

The sketches include a worker teaching a boss about the moon, a kooky inventor linking technology to creativity and innovation, a game that teaches about space engineering, and a demonstration of how maths helps to explain our universe. This Inspiring Australia initiative is supported by the Australian Government as part of National Science Week.

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Yarra Plenty Regional Library
2019-08-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Yarra Plenty Regional Library, 57-61 Laurel Street, Whittlesea, VIC, 3757, 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.
Screenings: 10 August 11:00am – 12:30pm | 15 August 4.00pm – 5.30pm | 20 August 6.30pm – 8.00pm
No booking required. Please contact the venue for further info.

Destination Moon and Beyond with Ben Z
2019-08-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston, Victoria, 3199, Australia
Join Ben Z of Fizzics Education as he takes you to Destination Moon and Beyond.
Discover the science required to reach the Moon and the space programs that made it all happen. From trajectories & orbits to rocketry & materials science, we’ll look at current and future space programs, operations and missions.
Bookings open Friday 26 July 2019.

Digging Dinosaurs
2019-08-10 10:30 - 12:30 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Students will have a roaring great time as they learn about dinosaurs in this hands-on science workshop designed to look at palaeontology in a realistic way.

Check out life-size replica of the Velociraptor dinosaur skull and come face to face with a T-Rex!
Work like a real palaeontologist; dig out and analyse the specimens found
Find out how fossils are formed and how it’s easy to find them on the beach
Feel replica dinosaur skin and compare it with that from modern animals
Go beyond dinosaurs to look at Australian megafauna
Make casts of ancient creatures to keep and more!

Frogs and why we need them
2019-08-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Chiltern Library, Cornness Street, Chiltern, VIC, 3683, Australia
Join Dr John Rafferty, Lecturer in Environmental Education from Charles Sturt University to learn about frogs and their importance to the environment. Dr Rafferty will also be discussing the Australian Museum’s Citizen Science project FrogID, local frog species and what we can all do to help frogs.
This talk is for people of all ages including children. There will be time for questions and refreshments will be provided.

Fizzics Liquid Nitrogen Show - Leongatha Library
2019-08-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Leongatha Library, 2 Smith Street, Leongatha, VIC, Australia
Fizzics – Liquid Nitrogen Show – is an event hosted by Fizzics Education. The show demonstrates phase changes, expansion, contraction, basic cell theory, air pressure, and the weather.
Featured experiments include lid launcher, ball smasher, liquid nitrogen sprinkler, frozen bubbles, fog breath, cool lasers, cooling circuits and levitating magnets.
The shows allow up to 60 children through demonstration to find out:

How solids, liquids and gases change when rapidly heated and cooled.
What happens to living things if they are frozen?
How can Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion explain a liquid nitrogen sprinkler?
What is the Leidenfrost effect?

FIZZLE AND POP
2019-08-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Newport Community Hub, 13 Mason Street, Newport, VIC, 3015, Australia
Celebrate National Science Week with a BANG!
Join the Scientwists for this fun and creative show demonstrating all things TwistED science.
There’ll be plenty of hands-on opportunities for willing participants and heaps to see and wonder about.

Lego Legends
2019-08-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Do you have what it takes to be a LEGO Legend? Can you build LEGO creations with speed, colour and imagination? Can you work as a team? Then come along to our inaugural LEGO Legend Challenge.
Note: You will be required to work in teams of two. We can match you up with someone on the day.

Build Code Play
2019-08-10 09:00 - 2019-08-17 10:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
To celebrate National Science Week we will have a special Build Code Play session. These activities will help develop children’s capacity to problem solve, create, collaborate and increase critical thinking in this interactive session.

Young Inventors Workshop
2019-08-10 09:00 - 2019-08-16 17:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Inviting all children to come and learn about electronic and code to build inventions. In this hour you will invent, design, create and test a new gizmo.

Astrophotography Workshop & Victorian Astronomy Convention
2019-08-10 09:00 - 2019-08-11 09:00 | Briars Astronomy Centre and Observatory, 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, 3934, Australia
This year’s astrophotography workshop will be run for the first time in conjunction with the biennial Victorian Astronomy Convention (VASTROC) in adjacent buildings. Both are for the first time open to the public as well as to amateur astronomers.
The astrophotography workshop will be canvassing and introducing concepts that will assist both the amateur and professional photographer. The afternoon will have an array of lectures given by experienced and acknowledged astrophotographers. Practical hands-on sessions will then be held during the evening at our registered Observatory.
Topics include an introduction to wide field astrophotography, time lapse photography, aurora photography, deep sky imaging, image processing and more.
Weather permitting, attendees will be able to use some of the Society’s premium equipment for some deep sky imaging.
Remember to bring your camera and tripod for the practical component if you have them. Please dress appropriately for being outdoors and on a grassy or uneven surface. You may bring a small torch (red globe or covered in red cellophane).
The observatory is marked on Google Maps and on the Melways at map reference 151/E1.
Driving directions The venue is in regional/rural Victoria and is entered on the east side of Nepean Highway. Drive carefully through the park, with the possibility of wildlife on the road after dark. You will travel about 2 km along a sealed road, over three cattle grids, past a visitors’ centre on your left and vineyard on your right, up the hill then straight ahead through an open gate. Do not turn left to Josephine’s restaurant. Travel past the righthand side of the Shire Nursery, with the Park Ranger’s house on your right, then the observatory is 100 m further along on the left.
VASTROC next door will feature talks throughout the day on all facets of amateur astronomy, and is aimed both at those with prior knowledge and for eager newcomers.
Attendees at either the workshop or VASTROC may move freely between talks in either.
Accommodation is available on-site for the first 50 people who register and indicate they require it. This is bunkhouse style accommodation and you will need to bring your own towel and bedding/sleeping bag.
Cost includes overnight bunkhouse accommodation if required, and attendance at any VASTROC talks about amateur astronomy running in parallel next door.

Science-Writing 101 Workshop
2019-08-10 09:00 - 17:00 | Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
This introductory course in National Science Week will cover the basic 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.
Basic 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.

The Great Aussie Bioquest 2019
2019-08-10 07:00 - 2019-08-18 22:30 | VIC
You’ll be amazed what you discover when you download QuestaGame and join this year’s Great Aussie BioQuest on your smartphone. Compete against other teams to map biodiversity – all while taking part in Australia’s largest nationwide bioblitz.
The third annual Great Aussie BioQuest is on track to be the biggest yet.
Download QuestaGame onto your smartphone, join a BioQuest team and compete against other teams to map biodiversity during National Science Week. Submit photos of wildlife in your neighbourhood and learn about it from real experts, while earning points for your team. Or help identify the submissions of other players and earn even more points for your team.
This year you’ll get to join a Science Hub team, and work with your teammates to become the number one biodiversity mappers in Australia. The data you collect will be shared (with your permission) with the Atlas of Living Australia for scientific research and conservation.
Visit the website for more information.

Science at the Extreme
2019-08-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia
Join us for the 2019 public launch of Victoria’s National Science Week at the Melbourne Museum
National Science Week is a collection of events large and small staged by individuals and organisations that, when taken together, make up one of Australia’s largest festivals.
Science has always been about exploration, discovering and expanding our understanding of the nature of things. Every day, scientists in the field balance the excitement and danger of collecting data from some of the wildest and most hostile environments on the planet in the pursuit of knowledge.
From the frozen tundra of Antarctica to the deserts of central Australia, from the lava flows of Hawai’i to the depths of the world’s deepest abyss off the Eastern coast of our continent, we’re bringing together a dream team of science adventurers to share their journeys and discoveries.
This very special night will bring to you a panel of incredible speakers exploring Science at the Extreme, after which you can see the science galleries, talk to research scientists from Museums Victoria and enjoy a drink to celebrate the launch of this incredible celebration of all things science!
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Speakers:
Dr. Darlene Lim is a geobiologist based at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. She has spent 25 years conducting field research around the world, in both the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as in underwater environments where she has piloted submersibles as a scientist and explorer. Currently, Darlene leads several NASA-funded research programs that are focused on blending field science research with the development of capabilities and concepts for future human spaceflight into deep space and Mars. She is the Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded SUBSEA, BASALT and Pavilion Lake research programs, and the Deputy PI of the NASA FINESSE research program.  Darlene is a passionate promoter of science and exploration education and outreach efforts, and founded the Haven House Family Shelter STEM Explorers’ Speakers Series, which from 2012-2015 enabled NASA and academic researchers to conduct educational sessions with homeless children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr Kate Selway is an Earth scientist who is passionate about understanding how our amazing planet works. She has led research teams in the deserts of central Australia, the savannas of East Africa, and the frozen expanses of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Like a doctor taking an x-ray, Kate makes measurements on the Earth’s surface to peer deep inside it. She runs mathematical models of her data to understand why plate tectonics happens, and improve measurements of ice loss from ice sheets. Kate was awarded her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2007, where she continued working in research positions, including an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, until 2012. She then worked abroad in postdoctoral research positions at Yale University (2012-2013), Columbia University (2013-2015) and the University of Oslo (2015-2016). In 2017 Kate returned to Australia to commence an ARC Future Fellowship at Macquarie University.
Dr Dianne Bray is an ichthyologist and Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Museums Victoria. Her job involves managing and developing natural history collections (mostly fishes and scientific artworks) so that people – including those not yet born – can answer all sorts of questions about our biodiversity now and into the future. Dianne joined the Museum’s team aboard CSIRO’s RV Investigator in 2017 to map the structure of the seafloor and collect samples of bizarre, deep sea creatures never before seen, contributing to our knowledge of abyssal biodiversity, including food webs, population connectivity, and evolutionary history, and help us understand potential changes caused by human activities.

Nate Byrne (MC) is a meteorologist and weather presenter on ABC News Breakfast. Prior to this, Nate spent 12 years working as a meteorologist and oceanographer in the Royal Australian Navy, and achieved a Master of Science Communication (Outreach) with the ANU and Questacon. A scholar of the Shell Questacon Science Circus, Nate toured the country delivering science shows to outback communities across Australia.

National Science Week is presented under the Inspiring Victoria program by the Victorian Coordinating Committee, managed by the Royal Society of Victoria. Dr Darlene Lim is appearing in Victoria courtesy of the Royal Society of Victoria.
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Fly to the Moon
2019-08-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Discovery Science & Technology Centre, 7 Railway Place, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550, Australia
Discovery is ready to launch into National Science Week 2019 with Fly To The Moon. A fun filled night of hands-on science, space exploration and of course we have to kick it all off with a BANG!
Get ready for an action packed night! Fly to the Moon will be a fun filled night of Science at the Discovery Science and Technology Centre Bendigo.
We will launch into the event with a bang, literally, as we start the night with an explosively good science show. Why not try and defy gravity on our vertical slide. Experience over 100 hands on science exhibits as you roam and explore the centre. Settle back and get ready for take off as we screen some short films and check out the stars up close as we explore the night sky.
