Seeing Things Differently

These two events are scheduled for Friday 19 August (for school groups) and Saturday 20 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. Other industry tours will also be…

g4g DAY @ Canberra

It’s on again @ Canberra, Australia. Our signature one day event demonstrates the link between science, technology, engineering & mathematics (STEM) to everything around us in a fun & interactive way. We invite 100-150 girls aged 10-17 to come and join the fun and be inspired by hands-on workshops led by role-model professionals in STEM. The day consists…

Inside The Fish Bowl

The Fish Bowl is a dramatic production that ran during this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning the Best Theatre & Physical Theatre Award and Holden Street Theatre’s Adelaide Fringe Award. The title is a metaphor for the voyeuristic, circular nature of the daily routine for people living in aged care. The play presents the real-life…

A Window on SAHMRI Open Day

Come and see inside SAHMRI’s iconic “cheesegrater” building on North Terrace. Get up close to the stunning architecture and discover the life-changing work we’re doing inside, plus meet the researchers who devote their careers to finding better ways to treat, heal and care for people.  Join one of our free half-hour tours and explore a…

Drought Resilience and Living Flinders – an online discussion with Stakeholders. TBC

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE CONSTELLATION STORIES IN LIGHT TRAIL Learn about, recognise and understand landscape processes, conditions and trends.  Understand water capture within the landscape as well as the ecological and edaphic processes that underpin productivity.  Learn about landscape mapping exercises that chart elements such as landscape formations and existing vegetation and soil…

STEM expo

The STEM expo is a collaboration event between a number of STEM university students and STEM affiliated societies at the ANU to showcase our projects, show what it’s like to study STEM (especially as someone from an underrepresented group), explore the links between different disciplines and have a go at our interactive workshops. These groups…

Switch on to Science

Science is much more than explosions and weird experiments. It is the knowledge we use to make all the wonderful things we rely on every day. Join us to explore how scientific knowledge is discovered, and how technology uses that science to make lots of very useful things. Using our displays of vintage equipment, which…

Amazing Glass

Glass is an ancient scientific miracle. Over the years it has been used to decorate, contain and preserve. At Kalkie State School’s National Science Week event, Amazing Glass, students will have the opportunity to see how glass enhances their lives and their understanding of the natural world. The event will open with River Nations Indigenous…