Put on your favourite pyjamas, grab a drink, and get ready for a brilliant night in! To celebrate National Science Week, we are bringing the ultimate science trivia experience straight to your couch with Pub Trivia in your Pyjamas. Hosted by the fabulous duo, Karen Player and Vanessa Barrett, this special event will test your…
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
Plants for Space Green Juice Wet Lab – Indigenous plant talk
What if we told you that by the end of this workshop, you’d be turning a handful of spinach into actual noodles using real food science? No, seriously, it’s going to get weird, wonderful and wildly delicious. Welcome to the Molecular Space Kitchen — where chemistry meets cooking meets outer space! This mind-blowing two-hour workshop…
Plants for Space – Cosmic Echoes Exhibition and Space Salad Wet Lab
Could a salad actually save an astronaut’s life on a two-year mission to Mars? Spoiler: it just might, and YOU get to find out how! Welcome to the Space Salad Lab, where real food science meets outer space. This epic two-hour workshop kicks off inside the Cosmic Echoes Exhibition before diving headfirst into one of…
Plants for Space – Cosmic Echoes Exhibition and Green Juice Wet Lab
Welcome to the Molecular Space Kitchen,where chemistry meets cooking, meets outer space. What makes food taste good in zero gravity? How do you preserve flavour, colour and nutrition millions of kilometres from Earth? This two-hour workshop begins with a visit to the Cosmic Echoes Exhibition before moving to Molecular Space Kitchen, where you’ll discover the extraordinary…
Science in the Garden
The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden are so excited to welcome Animals Anonymous and Nitro Nat to Port Augusta as part of National Science Week. Held over two weekends there is something for everyone. Starting on Sunday 23rd August 2026 Animals Anonymous will deliver two educational hands-on animal shows at 12:00noon and 1:30pm, followed by…
Science Week – Business Showcase
What does STEM look like in our community? Join us for an exciting evening celebrating the diverse ways science, technology, engineering and maths shape the businesses around us. From cutting-edge microplastics research to robotics innovation destined for the Moon, we’ll explore two very different but equally fascinating sides of the STEM world. Hear directly from the…
Monsters and Molecules – Journey to the Centre of the Brain
Cutting edge research meets role play in this Dungeons & Dragons-inspired comedy show, improvised live on stage! Can comedian Jaimeson Gilders, educator Joel Gilmore and Professor Lezanne Ooi, save this fantasy world from total chaos? Together with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC), join us as we explore the cutting-edge quantum research…
Buzzz ACT – Belco Arts Centre
Buzzz into Belco Arts Centre this National Science Week with Chamaeleon Collective, Canberra’s inclusive dance company. Buzzz ACT is an award-winning dance and science experience celebrating the bees that keep our world humming. Through the magic of movement and music this fun and fabulous show explores the importance of bees for the ecology, biodiversity and…
Plants for Space – Seeding science from outback to outer space
What do you eat when you’re two years from home and hurtling towards Mars? Come find out — and maybe even grow the answer yourself! UWA Plants for Space has landed in Geraldton, and we’re throwing open the doors of the Museum of Geraldton for two full days of free, drop-in, hands-on space science fun….
Strengthening Science Classroom Practice with Australian Research
Join Informit for our upcoming free webinar introducing the new Science subject on Informit Explore; perfectly timed ahead of National Science Week. Join Science teacher and Research Fellow at ACER; Agnes Bersee as she will showcases how Explore’s science collection brings together research articles, Australian case studies, and locally relevant scientific perspectives that help students connect theory to real‑world contexts. With a specific focus on…