Get ready to imagine the future, by making your own video game! The Future Frontiers Game Jam is a fun, Territory-wide challenge where anyone aged 10 and up can create a game based on science, sustainability, and the future of our planet. It’s like a giant creative competition where you get to dream up cool…
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
Brisbane Soapbox Science 2025
Soapbox Science Brisbane 2025 is a free public engagement event which aims to inspire new generations of women scientists, challenge perceptions of what a scientist does and looks like and encourages the public and wider community to engage with novel science. For this event, 12 competitively selected, diverse women will step onto soapboxes and bring…
Hue of the Brew: Science of colour and beer
Explore how beer gets those distinctive colours and how they shape flavour in a lively one-hour Science Week talk plus interactive tasting with the Darwin and NT Homebrewers. Great opportunity to support the local brewing community and meet some brewers. We’d love to see you on 17 August for this FREE event. Audience: 18 years and above
ANU Biology Society Lab Tours
During National Science Week, the ANU Biology Society is excited to host a series of exclusive lab tours showcasing the incredible breadth of biological research happening across the Australian National University. These small-group tours (1 to 2.5 hours in length) will give students the unique opportunity to step behind the scenes of cutting-edge labs across…
A night at the Museum : a focus on luminesence and opals !
The Brisbane Opal Museum will host ‘A Night at the Opal Museum, a focus on luminescence and opals’ For one evening, on the thursday, 14th of August, the museum will be open for visitors until 8.30 pm, there will be a 30-minute interactive activities for kids at 5 pm, and a 90-minute presentation ‘the physics…
Songs from the Grapevine
Celebrating stories of wine science through original music. The Australian Wine Research Institute and Max Savage bring their acclaimed science-meets-music show back for another night of original entertainment. Seven decades of wine research come alive through songs, stories and some truly terrible jokes – plus wine tasting. No wine or science knowledge is required. AWRI’s…
Mad Science Show
A jam-packed 60-minute show of big WOW science madness! There are giant smoke vortices, levitating beach balls, flying toilet paper, flour fireballs, hair-raising electricity, and lots of learning! Our show is all about air, electricity & fire! Air is invisible, odourless, all around, takes up space, and exerts a pressure. It can also be used…
Scientist Portraits: Story and spectacle
Elizabeth Blackburn, Fiona Wood, and Graeme Clark. You may have heard of these Australian scientists before. But do you know of their impact on the world? Learn how storytelling meets science. Join legendary science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams AO in our 45-minute virtual webinar as he introduces scientists from the National Portrait Gallery collection,…
Brisbane Soapbox Science 2024
Soapbox Science Brisbane 2024 is a free public engagement event which aims to inspire new generations of women scientists, challenge perceptions of what a scientist does and looks like, and encourage the public and wider community to engage with novel science. For this event, 12 competitively-selected, diverse women will step onto soapboxes and bring their…
Family Science Day at Hive
Family Science Day at Hive returns with a showcase of amazing species survival themed science activities for National Science Week. The program includes mini-workshops, extra planetarium shows and an expo of Tasmanian Science. Hive’s Science Centre will be overflowing with interactive experiences for all the family, with pop-up stalls by scientists and ecology organisations from…