The Little Bang Discovery Club Online teaches kids about scientific methods using engaging videos, hand-on experiments and everyday objects. This easy, fun hands-on STEM program is designed for 3-8 year olds and their carers to complete together at home in celebration of National Science Week. Set up your discovery box using everyday objects, and then…
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Marine Ecosystem Building in CoSpaces
Take a deep dive into the ocean from your own home with our 3D environment building event. When you visit the beach you may see the water, sand and surfers but what lies beneath the surface? The seafloor hosts plants, animals and their surrounding environment. It is also characterised by its vast and beautiful appearance…
Telethon Kids Science Adventure
Kids visiting the Discovery Centre 17-21 August can dress up like as scientists and go a science adventure. Try our body quiz, solve the mystery code, build a cell, try the photo booth, be challenged by activity sheets and enter a colouring in competition. Plus, all the Discovery Centre games and activities will be open.
Sustainability pioneer & Mars explorer: Ask Me Anything (LIVE)
Between Monday 17 and Friday 21 August, sustainability expert, Mars One astronaut candidate and biohacker Dianne McGrath is hosting ‘Ask Me Anything’ sessions on Instagram Stories LIVE. Submit questions on Dianne’s Instagram page. Topics already requested include: biohacking sleep and recovery, and Mars One: status, what it means for Dianne today, and what next? Visit…
Tech Girls STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop
The team from the Tech Girls Movement Foundation will work with students to identify issues that are important to them. Through various activities, we help students determine how technology (an app) can be used to help solve their important issue. Students learn skills for developing an app and pitching their idea. There will be two…
Shifting Perspectives Premiere
Shifting Perspectives is a short dance film inspired by a recently published conversation between two leaders in the field of synthetic biology (Sarah Richardson and Tom Knight) and their divergent approaches to working with microbial life. Shifting Perspectives seeks to open a multivocal interdisciplinary dialogue across screendance, movement and synthetic biology. The film was developed…
What’s the Matter? West Gippsland Libraries Online Science Week event
Let’s dive into the world of matter. What are the different states? How can we identify them? What if we have something that doesn’t fit into these categories? Enter, oobleck. A non-Newtonian fluid that just won’t behave. Both a liquid and a solid, this slippery, gooey substance forms a solid when you squish it together…
Science Made Beerable
***TICKETS SOLD OUT but the event is still free to stream*** What’s better than an online National Science Week? An online National Science Week with beer. Science Made Beerable are taking this hop-portunity to make you weiser to ale the science that gose into a brew with a live-streamed beer tasting event. We’ll be joined…
The Data Lab: Exploring the future of AI
Join us in the data lab* as we shine a light on the future of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAHMRI’s Dr Jimmy Breen, bioinformatician extraordinaire, will be your virtual host as we look at what our data says about us and the power it has to change our health. We are what…
Waste Export Ban Webinar
From January 2021, Australia will begin to phase out the exportation of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres over a four-year period. This is an exciting time for the waste sector as we will begin to see collaborations between governments, private industries and communities that strive to build a new refined and resilient approach towards…