Join a robotic food adventure to celebrate National Science Week. In this week’s STEAM Club session you’ll get to code an Evo robot to follow a food map designed by you.
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Scratch Code Club Online
Join us for a special National Science Week program of Virtual Code Club. We will get together on Microsoft Teams and work through the ‘One in a Melon’ Scratch coding project. Once you have registered and provided an email address we will send you some eSafety information and an invitation to join our video conference. This…
Experimenta Life Forms
Philosophers have wrestled with defining life for thousands of years. EXPERIMENTA LIFE FORMS reveals how contemporary artists are approaching this perennial question, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down. What new life forms are emerging through technological and biological adaptation and invention?…
Virtual Science for Seniors
Try a VR Headset and you can experience virtual travel – explore underwater, on land or even travel in space. This special session for seniors will include instruction and access to technology which can virtually take you travelling. You could wander through the Taj Mahal, go kayaking in Antarctica or explore Machu Picchu, to name…
Virtual Tour: Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre – Meet Magnus for the last time
Join the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre as we take you on a live tour of the facility – your last opportunity to meet the Magnus Supercomputer, before it is replaced by Setonix, a supercomputer 30x more powerful than its predecessors. The tour will be live streamed on Pawsey’s Facebook page. Invite your friends and family…
STEM with Style Fashiontech Workshops for Teens
We are celebrating the opening weekend of National Science Week in style with two STEM with Style Fashiontech Workshops. The fun and interactive, 3 hour workshops are designed to introduce 13-16 year olds to the future of fashion. Participants will learn how to upcycle one of their favourite items of clothing using wearable technology and…
Sustainable Food and Seaweed Production
Guest Speaker Dr Libby Swanepoel from the University of Sunshine Coast Seaweed Research Group will explain her research in seaweed utilisation for food. We will also have seaweed tasting and other sustainable Australian meats to try. Held at Suncoast Christian College Auditorium August 18 at 11:30am (approx 1 hour presentation). The auditorium is large and…
Building Public Support for Science, Engineering and Technology
What are the lessons to be learned from COVID when it comes building trust and interest in the views and advice of scientific experts? Through this webinar event we’ll aim to address three key questions: Using the pandemic as a case study, can we harness this renewed public interest & trust and expand it to…
Scitech Presents The Great National Science Week Scavenger Hunt
We’re celebrating National Science Week with a free weekend event that everyone can enjoy. See Perth in a whole new way as you follow the clues, solve riddles and discover that science is all around you. With prizes and experiments along the way, it will be a fun and creative weekend for all ages. How…
Experiment in STEM
Join Robogals Canberra for a session of hands-on science this National Science Week. We will have five awesome experiments to try yourself with the help of our awesome volunteers. The experiments we enable primary school-aged children to think deeper about different STEM themes which are not focused on in schools until high school, including: chromatography,…