World Educational Robot (WER) Contest 2018 Australia Open – Hosted by World Educational Robotics Society (WERS) and Centre Com with sponsorship from HP. A fun and challenging robotics contest for children aged 6-18 using Abilix robots.
Calling all budding builders and engineers. Come and build the tallest structure you can, using our builder’s kit. Who will win? There will be prizes! Thomastown Library has organised a week’s worth of science and technology fun. Come in any time from 11 – 17 August and ask for a builder’s kit. Try your hand…
An afternoon of experimenting, building and tinkering for pre-schoolers, primary schoolers and their families to celebrate National Science Week. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for preschoolers and primary schoolers and their families. There will be exciting and mind-expanding demonstrations, fun construction and building challenges and a yummy afternoon tea!
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…
Do you like coding and engineering? Join Monash Chapter Engineers Without Borders at Wheelers Hill Library and learn how to code in a disaster relief situation. EWBA is a member – based, community organisation that creates social value through engineering. Meet the volunteers from Monash University Chapter and learn some coding skills.
The Robogals Science Challenge is an Australia-wide science competition for girls. It enables participants to learn more about science and engineering by conducting projects or experiments with a friend, parent, or another mentor. Entries to the competition are submitted online in the form of videos, photos and writing in three age categories. The competition will…
With engineers, anything is possible! To celebrate Engineers Australia’s 100th birthday, we are encouraging Australians to think about how engineering has helped them in all parts of their lives. So, if anything is possible and you had unlimited time, money, help, and skill, what would you engineer? Show us your creation, and you have a…
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…
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is revolutionising recycling science. Rather than take up arms against a sea of big polluters, Professor Sahajwalla approaches the problem as a commercial opportunity with real market value to help drive behaviour change. Last year her SMaRT centre opened the world’s first e-waste micro-factory to process old computers, phones, televisions, and all the electronic junk that ends up in landfill. The waste is sorted and dismantled by robots, then mined for its precious elements. Circuit boards are stripped of metals such as gold, copper and tin, while glass and plastic are converted to industrial-grade ceramics and plastic filaments for use in 3D printing. Join us to explore how repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products is reinventing the way we treat - and perceive - these largely untapped commodities.
Engineers without Borders (EWB) is a worldwide volunteering organisation for engineering students and professionals. EWB help improve peoples’s lives by using engineering to create social value. They help people develop skills, knowledge and technological solutions in areas such as clean water, clean energy, sustainable housing and digital access. Engineers without Borders are coming to Thomastown…
Researchers at RMIT University have developed a prototype to mimic real human skin to work as a viable alternative to invasive skin grafts and conventional prosthetics.