Join us at the Australian National Botanic Gardens for National Science Week to learn about pollination and how different creatures help to pollinate plants by creating your own pollinator. Using craft items, create an insect and test how well it can gather pollen as it stops on flowers. You will also be creating and testing…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Ag STEM at the Ekka
Join our Street Science presenters as we learn about the amazing science behind agriculture through exciting visual demonstrations. Discover the unexpected potential for produce like seaweed and corn in revolutionising our everyday lives. Fun and interactive demonstrations will have any young scientist engaged before exploring how innovations in agriculture are shaping the future sustainability of…
Queensland Children’s Hospital STEM Fair
Students, their siblings and parents can engage with the following groups as part of a STEM fair: STEM Punks CoralWatch Dr Rob Bell Experimentary The Create Lab /Professor Tech Chinchilla sand megafauna (palaeontology) presented by PhD candidate Mr Vikram Viakil (University of Queensland) Sharkecology presented by Dr Marielle Familiar Lopez
First Nations STEM Careers Day
An exciting day discovering the world of STEM careers and the diverse pathways available, this will provide valuable insights to all. Students and their guests will be collected by bus from Queens Park, Warwick at 8:30am. The bus will transport students and their guests from each location before returning them to the pick-up point at…
Sprigg Salon: Sharks attacks – is the number of shark bite increasing and how can we reduce risk?
Are you at greater risk now of shark bite than ever before? More than 85% of all Australians live within 50 kilometres of the beach, a place many of us have a deep affection for and enjoy spending time at in the warmer months. Since the 1950’s, there has been an increase in reported shark bites…
Big Science Adventure
Celebrate National Science Week at Capricorn Caves on Friday 18 & Saturday 19 August. All your favourite cave adventures over one weekend, and more. Saturday is jam-packed with activities. Harness up and try our 8m climbing wall or do our 25m abseil off the cave, grab a head torch and explore the cave chambers and…
Port Moresby-Darwin International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Event
Join the FST Network of Indigenous Partnerships for this Darwin-Port Moresby event on 9 August at 12:30 (ACST). The Piku Biodiversity Network would like to provide a presentation for the International Day of Indigenous People, to illustrate and demonstrate what our vision looks like in action, where we are acting locally in implementing solutions to…
Capricorn Caves: Under the Stars & Into the Caves
Capricorn Caves is a well regarded ecotourism attraction just north of Rockhampton, Queensland. Come along to our Big Science Adventure, a weekend full of science surprises. Join us on the evening of Friday 18 August for a special tour through the enchanting Cathedral Cave. You may even see the cute little bent-wing bats on their…
Solar Powered Cars
Come along to a special STEM based activity session and make your very own solar powered car. Learn about solar power, where it comes from, how it works, and why it helps the planet, then construct your own solar powered car and watch it go. This is a National Science Week event, presented with the…
Create a Parasite Clay Workshop @ Blackwood Library
There are parasites all around us, but they are often not noticed. Although some can cause diseases many are important parts of nature. Come join Dr Gerrut Norval as he will introduce some kinds of parasites and what they do, and then create your own parasite with clay. The City of Mitcham welcomes all to…