The open day at the UOW Shoalhaven campus for Science Showcase UOW is on Saturday 12 August from 10am - 3pm.

The UOW campus in West Nowra will be transformed into a science activities hub.  This is a free event and all are welcome; there is something for all ages and interests.

Activities include:

• Guided tours of the medicine and nursing teaching spaces.
• Fire and Ice Spectacular science shows presented by the Science Space.
• Dragon Training mobile zoo reptile display, including a lace monitor, crocodile, snake, turtle, frogs, and a few smaller lizards
• Project Bucephalus Lego robotics building and competition (BYO robot or build one here), with prizes
• Tours of the observatory on-site, view the Sun with a solar scope, and a telescope display with Shoalhaven astronomers
• Waminda South Coast Women's Health and Wellbeing Aboriginal Corporation Birthing on Country with midwives and interactive mannequins to measure fetal heart rates
• Interactive health and medicine displays: have your blood pressure measured, see your muscles via ultrasound, see how dummy patients and simulations are used in medicine and nursing
• Anatomy models of the different parts of the body,
• Cafe open, sausage sizzle, coffee cart
• Prizes at different activity tables