Using biology tools like stereo and compound microscopes students will get up-close and personal with some awesome life forms.

Feel, smell, hear, see and taste! Supercharge your five senses in this SURPRISING and COLOURFUL workshop.  Learn about the parts of the human body that allow you to sense and how they work. In practical ways discover how your senses allow you to respond to your environment and navigate the world around you. There is something to challenge and delight every sense.

Learn what distinguishes living things from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils. Explore life cycles and how biological systems are interdependent, interacting with each other and their environments. Use lenses and microscopes to get a closer look at external features and how they relate to function. Get hands-on with some wiggly worms.

Plants are the only life forms that can produce their own food using energy from sunlight. In this FUN hands-on incursion explore the lifecycle of plants, from seed dispersal and germination to pollination and growth. Learn how plants adapt and survive in different environments. Plant your own seeds and determine how environmental conditions affect growth.

Explore the physical and chemical properties of substances through exciting hands-on activities.

Everything you LOVE about chemistry: piles of fizz, foam and bubble action! Through interactive activities discover how changes to substances can be reversible like dissolving, or irreversible with new substances formed. Explore acids and bases with colourful indicators. Investigate a special group of chemicals called polymers and even take one home!

Investigate the composition and properties of materials in this unique workshop. Sort materials, including fibres, metals, glass and plastics into natural and made; and explore their properties and purposes in fun ways. Combine materials to make interesting mixtures and discover how they can change. See materials and fibres through completely different eyes under high-magnification microscopes.

Enter a fast-paced world of energy and motion. There's sound vibrations, spinning gyros and FUN toys!

Show me a junior scientist who doesn’t love toys!? This workshop is all about moving toys and serious play. Tick tock: investigate gears, cogs, springs, potential and kinetic energy. Understand that the way objects move depends on a variety of factors. Take a tour through the history of toys and visit some old favourites like slinkies and knuckle bones. Explore push and pull forces, friction and gravity.

Welcome to a wonderful world of sound and music. Through sensory explorations this workshop delivers learning outcomes around sound vibrations, pitch and volume. Sound is a physical, movement energy that can be seen and felt. Watch the surprising effect of sound waves on a flame and a ping pong ball. Investigate how sound energy travels, make a fun sound toy, and much more to tantalize your ear drums.

Explore celestial objects and identify patterns in the sky through highly engaging activities.

More and more people recycle everyday. This helps to reduce the need for landfill and more costly forms of disposal. Recycling also reduces the need for extracting, refining and processing raw materials all of which create air and water pollution. Through fun and engaging activities learn the best ways to recycle. Investigate some interesting materials that scientists have developed to be kinder to our home planet.

This wacky workshop will excite and delight junior scientists. Learn about weather processes and changes through an engaging demonstration of the water cycle. Explore the relationship between the tilt, movement and orbit of Earth with the seasons and our calendar.  Investigate the sun's energy with UV beads and solar panels. Even create a winter wonderland with flurries of snow!

Gaze into the magic of the night sky and discover what is beyond our home planet. The sun is the centre of our solar system and is MASSIVE. If it was a jar, one million earths could fit inside! Participate in highly engaging activities to learn about our solar system: the Sun, moon, planets and stars, how they change position and impact our daily lives.