Work with stereo, compound and digital microscopes to investigate the relationship between form and function beginning with cells, the basic unit of life.

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.

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.

Living things have evolved over time so they are better prepared to survive and thrive in their environments. Investigate real fossils and explore the fascinating story of life. Learn how climate and human activity had a major impact on the survival of certain species. Cast your own fossil and investigate dinosaur teeth and claws, you may be surprised at what they uncover. 

Learn that all substances consist of atoms which can combine to form molecules, and chemical reactions involve atoms being rearranged and recombined to form new substances.

This fun workshop will draw even the most reluctant young scientist into the vivid world of chemistry. Through a series of exciting investigations learn about the reactive nature of everyday substances when they are combined in different ways. Explore the phenomena of acid/base reactions and polymerization at the particle level. Includes a memorable demonstration. 

All about solids, liquids and gases and so much more! Matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space. Earth, and everything on it, is made of matter, and so are all the stars and planets in the universe. But what makes up matter? Investigate the three main states of matter and how they change between state. Explore a peculiar substance that is sometimes like a solid and other times like a liquid. 

Enter a fast-paced world of energy and motion. There's electrical circuits, heat energy and a multitude of FUN forces!

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand our universe. Like Newton back in the 17th century, discover the laws of gravity and motion in this action-packed workshop. Explore all things forces including frictional, gravitational, electrostatic and magnetic. Through highly engaging activities investigate how forces affect the speed and direction of objects.

The more heat, the more motion within a system's particles. Don't sweat this HOT workshop, learn how heat energy is produced, transferred and how it can be used for a purpose. Observe an exciting combustion reaction with lots of fire. Reveal secrets with heat sensing thermochromic dyes and make a spinning novelty powered by heat. Understand how it all starts with The Sun.

Open your eyes to the colourful world light. In this interactive workshop investigate the composition, properties and movement of light energy. Manipulate the path of light using mirrors to reflect and concave and convex lenses to refract. Get creative with some shadow and black light investigations. Explore chemiluminescence with amazing chemical reactions that produce light.

One of our most popular supercharged workshops full of pulsating hands-on activities. Pull apart an electric motor and explore electromagnets. In small collaborative groups create multiple circuit-based projects using easy snap together components including incandescent globes, LEDS, motors, buzzers and flying propellers. Investigate parallel and series circuits; insulators and conductors.

Investigate the processes that result in changes to the Earth’s surface over 4.5 billion years, and explore the depths of our cosmos at astronomical scales.

Be awed by the power of water! In this wet hands-on workshop, model weathering and erosion to experience how these geological processes can cause slow or rapid changes to the Earth's surface. Explore the amazing properties of water such as cohesion, polarity and solubility. Water is an important and precious resource, investigate where it comes from and how it cycles through the sky, land and ocean.

Become a geologist in training during this rock'n workshop. Learn about the Rock Cycle and how rocks in the Earth's crust are constantly changing forms over long periods, alternating between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. Identify rocks and minerals by performing various tests such as hardness, streak and luster. Experiment with minerals that glow under UV light, float in water and are edible.

Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human health. It affects the physical environment (the land, air and water) as well as all aspects of both natural and human systems. Explore long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns through modelling. Investigate how human activity such as burning fossil fuels can affect climate, and what we can all do to slow global warming.

Experience the explosive force of nature's fury in this popular senior incursion. Natural disasters are caused by sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions that affect Earth's surface and atmosphere. Model and experiment with various natural disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, wildfires and floods. Investigate how their negative impacts can be reduced by human actions and technological innovations.

Time to blast off into the depths of space and explore our fascinating solar system. Learn fun facts about the 8 planets in our solar system and order them in different ways. Explore moons, comets, asteroids and space rocks as well as several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. Understand that The Sun is at the centre of our solar system and is the star in which all other planets including Earth orbit due to gravitational pull.