Digging Up Ryde: Walking with dinosaurs VR experiences

Come and explore the virtual world of dinosaurs and their prehistoric environment! Step into a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Experience the sights and sounds of the Jurassic period through immersive virtual reality technology—perfect for curious minds and future palaeontologists!  This is a drop in session. Participants can arrive any time in the first hour…

Science Week Quiz at Redcliffe State High School

Show us how much Science you know by joining our weekly quiz!  The weekly question will be posted on Compass each Monday at 8am.  Entries will be accepted by your Science teacher or can be placed in the box at the SABER centre.  Entries will close each week at 4pm on Thursday.  Winners will be…

Willandra School STEM Day

We’re excited to invite our school community to join us for a special event in celebration of National Science Week 2025. This year’s theme, “Decoding the Universe,” has inspired a range of creative and thought-provoking STEM projects from students across Years 1 to 6. The day will begin with a Special Science Week Assembly at…

Dr Karl Live at City Hall

Artificial intelligence, artificial idiocy, or probability machine? Join Dr Karl as he connects the dots between the tech booms of yesterday — from the family car to the first home computers — and today’s mind-bending AI explosion. Along the way, he’ll share how AI has been used to both attack and discredit him, and how…

Chasing Auroras

What makes thousands of people stay up all night, driving to remote locations, squinting at the sky, and obsessively checking space weather forecasts? The quest to see the Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis, has developed something of a cult following — forging a substantial community of scientists, awe seekers, astrophotographers, and nature lovers. In this…

The Beaker Street Game Show

Ladies and gentlemen! Science lovers, fact-checkers, and Wikipedia editors! It’s the show where Australia’s science glitterati face off for epic showdowns of wit, wisdom, and utter irrelevance. Hosted by the one-and-only Myf Warhurst and with a raft of special guests to knock your nerdy socks off, the Beaker Street Game Show is back, baby! This…

What’s Your P(DOOM)?

Is AI going to save us, enslave us, or just write all our event descriptions? Across Silicon Valley’s storied kombucha bars and apocalypse bunkers, tech bros and AI insiders are rumoured to ask each other for their up-to-date p(Doom), or probability of AI doom. Will the future be the rosy utopia offered up in Dario…

Science Day at Edgars Creek Primary School

Get ready for a fun-filled day of exciting science experiments and activities as we celebrate National Science Week 2025! Students across the school will dive into a range of hands-on, engaging tasks designed to spark curiosity and creativity. Throughout the day, students will explore the physics of floating drawings in a magical experiment where their…

Dr Karl Live In Devonport

Artificial intelligence, artificial idiocy, or probability machine? Join Dr Karl as he connects the dots between the tech booms of yesterday, from the family car to the first home computers, and today’s mind-bending AI explosion. Along the way, he’ll share how AI has been used to attack and discredit him, and how he’s now turning…

No One’s Getting Out Of Here Alive

Death’s the only sure thing in life, so why don’t we talk about it? Can funerals be fun? What’s the best body disposal method? You’re invited to a surprisingly uplifting evening with some of Australia’s most buoyant death and dying experts, Tasmanian Aboriginal knowledge holders, and a few special guests. Come for the bad bagpipe…