We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
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Telescope Learning Day
Come along and learn from scratch about how telescopes work, how best to use them and what to point them at! Get heaps of practical hints, tips and tricks from seasoned expert sky observers. Learn from the mistakes they made along their journey. Suitable for all ages and for absolute beginners on the journey, whether…
Citizen Science and Art Collide with Muon Open Studio
Artist Jon Butt and collaborator Lewis Gittuswill create a soundtrack using muon detections made onsite, allowing interstellar particles to form musical passages. The Muon Sound Lab creates an open studio space, occupying an intersection between science experimentation and creative studio practice. Visitors can watch live sound creation, talk with the artists and engage in conversations around the opposing forces of science research and poetic intuition to better…
Discover Electricity Workshop
Investigate electricity, find out what electric circuits are, how currents flow, and the difference between series and parallel circuits. Discover what materials can be used as conductors and insulators. For children 4-7. $2 per child, must be supervised by an adult. If you have any issues booking online or any questions you can call the…
Best of Our Little Bang Workshops
What? When? Why? How? Bring your little scientists along to discover the answers. They will learn by watching, observing and helping. The experiments are for children aged 3-5, inspired by the Little Bang Discovery Club. $2 per child, must be supervised by an adult. If you have any issues booking online or any questions, call…
Science is Better than Fiction
Join us for an evening of scientific wonder as Swinburne’s Astronomers and Science Communicators provide you with a captivating glimpse into life within STEM fields. They’ll break down the science they perform daily and share their insights on what they believe will be the next big thing in Physics and Astronomy. Costume competition Science really…
Bat Detectives
Springfield Lakes Nature Care (SLNC) is hosting a Bat Walk & Talk with a short induction to bats & various species found in South East Queensland together with environmental issues impacting our bats survival. A bat expert from the University of Sunshine Coast will provide bat detection audio recorders for groups to walk in several…
Platypus Watch
Springfield Lakes Nature Care Inc is conducting a Platypus Watch event to survey 3 creeks to record observations of platypus to help scientists monitor these shy mammals & find out how they are doing during effects of climate change; flood or drought. Whilst getting up early in the morning may not appeal to some, this…
Bat Detectives
On Saturday 5th August at 4.30 PM- 8.30 PM Springfield Lakes Nature Care (SLNC) is hosting a Bat Walk & Talk with a short induction to bats & various species found in the South East Qld region together with environmental issues impacting our bats survival. A bat expert from the University of Sunshine Coast will…
Bat Detectives
On Saturday 5th August at 4.30 PM- 8.30 PM Springfield Lakes Nature Care (SLNC) is hosting a Bat Walk & Talk with a short induction to bats & various species found in the South East Qld region together with environmental issues impacting our bats survival. A bat expert from the University of Sunshine Coast will…