Celebrate National Science Week at the Ekka! Ekka’s Learning Trail – Where Agriculture Meets Innovation Embark on a self-guided journey with Ekka’s agronomist Rhonda and her Farmyard Friends as you explore the science behind food, fibres, and farming on the Ekka’s Learning Trail. Designed for students and families, this interactive trail features eight engaging stations—from…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Deaf STEM Camp
Where Deaf Teens and Science Meet! Head to our Joondalup campus for two days of science, technology, engineering, and maths, for Deaf and HOH teenagers aged 14-18. Held between 9am and 4pm each day on 9th and 10th August 2025. Tickets & more info yet to be released. This is a non-residential day camp.
2025 Marie Curie Lectures – Your Quantum Future with Dr Sol H Jacobsen
The humble electron is a pillar of modern technology. They power almost every aspect of daily life, from your toaster to your phone. But these devices use only one quantum property of the electrons: their charge. Today, physicists are harnessing other properties – such as their “spin” – to advance a new technological revolution. This…
2025 Marie Curie Lectures – From Quantum Past to Quantum Future with Dr Sol H Jacobsen and Dr Danielle Holmes
The first quantum century fundamentally changed the way we understand and interact with our world. It gave us much of the technology underpinning modern life: lasers, LEDs, GPS, MRI, solar cells, electron microscopes, and myriad others. The revolutionary potential of the next quantum century promises applications necessary for solving our greatest global challenges. Join us…
Peer-Reviewed Gossip – Trend or Truth?
Join this peer-reviewed and interactive gossip session with science experts answering the questions you desperately want to know about the science and pseudoscience of but can’t be bothered to look up. Does this device actually enhance my skincare routine? Can I life hack my way to better sleep? Is my social media feed messing with…
Commissioner’s Digital Challenge 2025
Digital skills are life skills. They’re critical to future jobs, social inclusion and a more equitable world. The Commissioner’s Digital Challenge is a free, curriculum-aligned online resource teaching children and young people about computational, design and systems thinking skills. Students can participate in any or all of the three different challenges: Learn to Speak Robot, Space…
Dripstone Middle School Science Fair – Unveiling the Mysteries of Earth and Beyond
In celebration of National Science Week 2025, Dripstone Middle School is delighted to host its annual science fair themed “Unveiling the Mystery of Earth and Beyond”. Embark into the journey of curiosity and critical exploration from the innermost processes of our living planet to the vast unknowns of the universe. Each student project is an…
Hunter Science Festival
The Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (HISH) is thrilled to announce the Hunter Science Festival will return in 2025. Set for Sunday 17 August at Newcastle Museum, with an expected audience of over 4,000, this vibrant, family-friendly event will celebrate science’s power to connect, engage, and spark curiosity across our diverse community. The festival will…
The Beaker Street Debate
Is the end of the world nigh, or at least the end of humanity? Have our multi-crises of climate change, over-consumption, over-reliance on vulnerable technologies, and [insert your favourite impending disaster here] finally brought us to the brink? Or is there still time to change course and rescue our modern civilisation from going the way…
Knots, Graphs, and Algebra, a Story of Surprises — Sydney Mathematical Research Institute Public Lecture
Knots are everywhere: in the strings of our DNA, in the structure of super-strong materials, and in mathematics, where knots lurk behind all three-dimensional shapes. Graphs model social networks, transit maps, neural nets, and are one of the most basic objects in modern combinatorics. But what does the mathematics of knots have to do with the mathematics of…