Model Solar Vehicle Challenge - Final
Join 80 teams of students from around Australia and the world as they race their model boats and cars to see who is the 'fastest under the Sun'. This event encourages young people to explore the potential of solar energy through the construction of working models and boasts some of the finest achievements in technology and science by school children.
Date: 28 and 29 November 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
Going Places: The Technology of Transport
Pilot an airship through sky hoops, ride the hovercraft and land a plane on the flight simulator. Find out how travel has shaped society and put yourself to the test with a multitude of transport challenges. With more than 20 hands-on exhibits, Going Places is a wild ride. This unique exhibition explores the way mankind has developed new transport technology to overcome gravity, distance and the division of continents to move us around the globe.
Developed by Scitech, Perth
Date: Starts 12 December 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
Toys: Science at Play
What makes a spinning top stay upright? Why do magnets attract iron? How does a doll talk? This popular interactive exhibition returns to Scienceworks and includes robots, dolls, hula hoops, building blocks, toy timelines and kaleidoscopes. Toys provides plenty of opportunities for all ages with enquiring minds to tinker with toys.
Developed by Scienceworks and Scitech, Perth
Date: Starts 19 December 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
Summer School Holidays
Explore the wonders of flight this summer as part of Scienceworks' summer school holiday program, Up up and away. Learn all about how we lift ourselves off the ground in 'Winging It', a live science show all about flight, then make your own flying object to take home in the 'Designer Glider' activity.
Date: 26 December 2009 to 31 January 2010
Harrison Refrigerator Model
Come and see a model of the first successful industrial refrigerator (1857) developed by James Harrison of Geelong. An internationally significant invention, the refrigerator was used in breweries, hotels and distilleries throughout Britain, Europe, South America and Australia. This model was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States of America, from 1964 to 2002 and is now on show at Scienceworks.
Date: From Saturday 28 November 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
EPA Victoria Calendar Competition Display
View the exhibition of finalists for the EPA Victoria's 2010 calendar competition. The theme is 'Being Resourceful'. Entries will highlight ways we can sustain the planet by minimising the use of resources.
Date: 1 Dec - 20 Dec 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
Mathamazing
Explore the mathematics behind everyday life. Mathamazing includes hands-on activities based on topics such as shapes, probability, sequences and series, puzzles, problem solving, topology and building.
Developed by Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra.
Date: Until 6 December 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission
Mini Car 50th Anniversary Display
Celebrate the Mini's 50th anniversary and see Museum Victoria's own 1964 998cc Morris Mini Cooper. This Mini was purchased by Museum Victoria in 1984 with 40,000 miles on the odometer. The revolutionary design and sales success of the Mini provided the impetus for the development of the modern small car and became a design icon.
Date: Until December 2009
Cost: Included with Scienceworks admission