Join us at the Australian National Botanic Gardens for National Science Week to learn about pollination and how different creatures help to pollinate plants by creating your own pollinator. Using craft items, create an insect and test how well it can gather pollen as it stops on flowers. You will also be creating and testing…
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CSIRO Parent Information Session: Engaging With STEM
Building Bridges to STEM: Empowering Parents to Motivate and Inspire Their Young Person What better way to celebrate National Science Week than to join the CSIRO at Carnes Hill Library to find out how you can support your young person’s interest in STEM, now and into the future? Not sure what STEM is? STEM is all…
Parents and Young People Vaping Prevention Workshop
Join us at Liverpool City Library for the free Parents & Young People Vaping Prevention Workshop. Delivered and supported by South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), this crucial workshop is designed to empower you as parents and young people with knowledge and evidence-based health information to prevent vaping from harming your family. Do you…
Science Safari at Carnes Hill Library
Embark on an epic Science Safari. Join us for an incredible adventure filled with mind-blowing shows, make and takes, and fascinating table-top experiments for children and teenagers. Captivating Science Shows Prepare to be amazed as our scientists demonstrate mind-boggling experiments and jaw-dropping demonstrations. Make and Takes Continue the scientific exploration at home with our make…
Ag STEM at the Ekka
Join our Street Science presenters as we learn about the amazing science behind agriculture through exciting visual demonstrations. Discover the unexpected potential for produce like seaweed and corn in revolutionising our everyday lives. Fun and interactive demonstrations will have any young scientist engaged before exploring how innovations in agriculture are shaping the future sustainability of…
Queensland Children’s Hospital STEM Fair
Students, their siblings and parents can engage with the following groups as part of a STEM fair: STEM Punks CoralWatch Dr Rob Bell Experimentary The Create Lab /Professor Tech Chinchilla sand megafauna (palaeontology) presented by PhD candidate Mr Vikram Viakil (University of Queensland) Sharkecology presented by Dr Marielle Familiar Lopez
First Nations STEM Careers Day
An exciting day discovering the world of STEM careers and the diverse pathways available, this will provide valuable insights to all. Students and their guests will be collected by bus from Queens Park, Warwick at 8:30am. The bus will transport students and their guests from each location before returning them to the pick-up point at…
Endless Universe with Jenna Robertson
Music and philosophy meet astrophysics in this live immersive fulldome performance. How long will Earth and the Milky Way galaxy provide conditions for human life? What cosmic endings and new beginnings await us? And how do we make sense of all of this? Endless Universe, performed by Jenna Robertson, explores cosmic sustainability through an entirely…
Sprigg Salon: Sharks attacks – is the number of shark bite increasing and how can we reduce risk?
Are you at greater risk now of shark bite than ever before? More than 85% of all Australians live within 50 kilometres of the beach, a place many of us have a deep affection for and enjoy spending time at in the warmer months. Since the 1950’s, there has been an increase in reported shark bites…
Big Science Adventure
Celebrate National Science Week at Capricorn Caves on Friday 18 & Saturday 19 August. All your favourite cave adventures over one weekend, and more. Saturday is jam-packed with activities. Harness up and try our 8m climbing wall or do our 25m abseil off the cave, grab a head torch and explore the cave chambers and…