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Scuba in the Pub – Ocean, marine environment, habitat, and specie conservation

Scuba in the Pub provides a platform for the community to be informed on how to protect our marine environment and creatures and learn interesting facts and opportunities to be involved with marine projects from qualified and entertaining guest speakers in a friendly social environment. Three of the five saw fish species in Australia are…

St Marys STEM Immersion Day

The students at St Marys will rotate around six STEM activities throughout the day. The students will be divided into small groups of approximately 15 students and will participate in a variety of hands-on activities led by the teachers. The various activities will include: build a rocket for a water rocket launcher design and build…

Light on Painting: how programming the spectrum of white light produces new colours

Rethinking painting as it appears when lit by “non-classical” white light has been one of Belgian artist Adrien Lucca’s main research projects for several years. In the presentation he will introduce his research methods, the laboratory where he uses chemistry, spectrometry, electronics and computer science for artistic purposes and his results: exhibitions, publications and artworks….

Bush Foods and Science workshop

First Nations Peoples have used plants as food for thousands of years. In this one-hour interactive workshop participants will learn about: the cultural significance of bush food; Indigenous plant identification and growing conditions; and edible uses of plants. During the workshop you will learn in-depth information about how Indigenous peoples have been using these plants…

SIXTEEN LEGS – Enter The Cave Exhibition

This is travelling exhibition of caves, cave biology and the exploration and discovery of how this unique environment works. The Exhibition showcases the results of over 30-years of scientific research, 7 years of filming, and hundreds of millions of years of evolution, from the break-up of Gondwana to the present day. Co-Director & Producer, Dr…

Food *WASTE* Different by Design

Celebrate National Science Week with Actsmart School’s Food *Waste* Different by Design virtual event. Tune in to have a live panel of Canberra’s food waste experts answer your students’ questions. Hear from Belinda from OzHarvest that are famous for their work rescuing food. Laura from Go Terra will join us – you should check out…

Seeing Things Differently

These two events are scheduled for Friday 20 August (for school groups) and Saturday 21 August (for families and the general public). Visitors will have the opportunity to see inside Adelaide’s Micro-X factory, which develops and produces next generation X-ray imaging equipment incorporating innovative design and carbon nanotube technology. Free photography workshops, presented by Digido…

Imagining lutruwita’s Deep Time: a journey through science, art and song

Join us for a performance art journey through lutruwita’s deep time at the beautiful Art Farm Birchs Bay, overlooking the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. This event combines science with story-telling, music and the visual arts to journey through lutruwita’s often surprising geological history: from our island’s birth at the edge of Nuna, an ancient supercontinent, through to…

Drawing Birds with Peter Marsack

Come along and join our drawing class and bird watching tour with renowned illustrator Peter Marsack. One of Australia’s most renowned wildlife illustrators and co-illustrator of the ‘Australian Bird Guide’ will be running a ‘Drawing Birds’ class at Jerrabomberra Wetlands. Sketch birds in the field under the guidance of Peter, and return to the studio…