For National Science Week 2025, we are Decoding the Universe from the Ground Up. Nature’s treasures help us explore the special connection that can be enjoyed when we pay attention to the stones that are all around us. Encompassing a wide variety of nature’s wonders, from crystals to gemstones to meteorites from Mars to stone tools,…
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Brain Break – Lead Sunrise Mackay
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Brain Break – University of the Third Age – Wheelers Hill
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Brain Break – Hope Vale Campus of CYAAA
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Brain Break – Keyneton Primary School
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Hands-on geoscience interative Activities
An interactive activity program, designed specifically for children aged 6 to 12 years old. This is a 30-minutes hands-on geoscience session. Activities will focus on opals and their unique characteristics, including their luminescence, porosity and fire. Participants will use materials such as a UV torch to explore minerals, with a focus on opals from around…
Learn to geolocate opals with their luminescence !
Through this 30-minute presentation, you will learn the interaction between light and opal that creates their unique play of colour and luminescence. Misha, a physicist, or Valentine, a gemmologist specialised in opals, will reveal the secrets behind this phenomenon. By the end of this presentation you will be able to geo-locate most opals. This event…
The Answer is 42 Trivia Night
Put your scientific (and other) knowledge to the test at this National Science Week 2025 event in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), organised by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). Rounding out MAGNTs National Science Week 2025 program of events will be the trivia night you didn’t know you needed. Scientists will bring…
The Ammonites Rock!
Sing your way to the Jurassic at this National Science Week 2025 event in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), organised by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). Lovers of hard rock and sedimentary rock will unite as we present The Ammonites, an all-female, dinosaur loving, super group who will take you on a…
Decoding the Universe
Ever wondered how the universe was created? How our galaxy works? Listen to Dr Sara Webb, award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator, decode the universe. This program is one of the key events of the National Science Week 2025 program in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), organised by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). …