Science Storytime

City of Parramatta Libraries presents a special Science Week Story Time session for children aged 2-6 years. This is an interactive story time session for children and their carers.

Into the Wild Night

Into the Wild Night – a night vision walk. Explore the Australian rainforest at night using night vision technology for an insider’s look at the animals that live there. The Quad is partnering with the wonderful insightful Wendy from Vision Walks Eco-Tours to present this experience right here in Lismore. Imagine exploring the Australian rainforest at night,…

Into The Space Between

An evening to celebrate astronomy, hosted by North Coast Astronomy. The astronomers will be in The Quad with their telescopes so you can watch the Moon rise and see our galaxy up close. Lismore Regional Gallery keep their doors open into the evening so people can experience the current exhibitions on Saturday night. Fire pits and mulled…

MalignancyVR: A cancer-themed virtual reality game

MalignancyVR is an immersive Virtual Reality game exploring modern cancer treatments. Designed by cancer researchers, Dr Ken Dutton-Regester (Excite Science) and Dr Elke Hacker (QUT), we’re using VR as a platform to teach people about cancer. In its current form, MalignancyVR is a demo game that transports players into the lung. When a metastatic skin…

Mozzies in Your Backyard: Friends or Foe?

This is a National Science Week funded project to showcase all the wonderful and exciting citizen science projects occurring in Australia that are helping combat the nuisance and public health risks presented by exotic Aedes mosquitoes. These mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, transmit diseases like dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses and can pose a physical…

Cinema Under the Stars

Bring your picnic blanket and a thermos (temperatures might go below 20°C) and enjoy a series of short films that have been created especially for National Science Week in the NT  and will be screened by the Darwin-based Solar Cinema. Learn about the science and technology behind sports, drumming and beer, and discover fascinating facts…

Young Scientist Paper Planes Challenge

Engage your students in the 2020 Paper Plane Challenge during National Science Week. Stretch their technological imagination and explore material and physical world concepts in this fun interactive activity. Some Ground Rules before Take Off Paper planes must be made in front of a supervising adult witness using regular A4 or Quarto paper (80GSM or 90GSM)….

Around YOUR World in Eight Days | A STEAMpunk Exploration

Imagine a mini version of Jules Verne’s “Around the world in eighty days”. You have eight days to explore the world around you. Don’t worry about time or space. Verne’s novels are often called the earliest versions of STEAMpunk literature. They imagine different pasts and futures than the ones we have experienced. They contain a spirit…