As National Science Week wraps up this coming weekend across NSW, the state is a buzz with engaging, thought-provoking, and family-friendly science experiences that bring discovery to life.
Hidden Language of Native Bees: Blackheath
Dr. Amelie Vanderstock presents an engaging blend of ecology and musical theatre, exploring native bee communication, ultraviolet vision, and their ecological roles. The program includes interactive shows, talks, and hands-on workshops for all ages.
The Bee-rilliant Bee Musical
Join in with this playful, musical celebration of bees, pollination, and the magic of nature. Combining science, theatre, and hands-on fun, this interactive show invites families to sing, dance, and create insect art from fruit, veg, and origami.
Bring a picnic, relax on the lawn, and enjoy STEAM like you’ve never seen before – where everyone can BEE a scientist!
In this fun, hands-on workshop with Dr Amelie Vanderstock (Amelie Ecology), kids will explore how native bees see the world, communicate through dance, and help our environment. Through music, movement, art, and outdoor discovery, children will learn to spot pollinator-friendly plants and create their own bee-friendly spaces.
A playful, creative way to connect with nature and explore science—no lab coats required!
Science, Visual and Performing Arts- A multilingual confluence
If you the curious or have the knack for innovation, join in and explore the wonderful magic of science. This national science week event includes interesting live science experiments and STEM based working models and is family friendly, so everyone can get hands on and try different experiments.
Can you set off the lemon volcanoes?
Can you use a balloon to lift up a glass bottle?
Can you make a normal pencil look like a broken pencil when it was in the glass of water?
This event is a family event where there is many fun activities to be follow.
Creative art depicting use of science in our daily life
Science quotes in calligraphy
Creative performances to create awareness about different aspects of science
Drama on theme of Agriculture
Recitations on science
Scientific model & poster presentation by kindergarten to university students
Scientific games stalls focussing on science math skills (STEM-based games)
Celebrate National Science Week at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan. Be amazed by the wonders of nature and plant science.
Explore PlantBank, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and our plant nursery, as you engage in hands-on workshops, family-friendly walks, and tours led by our experts.
Celebrate National Science Week with free family fun at Centennial Park. Science in the Swamp returns to Loch Avenue South packed with science, fun and discovery.
Engage in hands-on experiments. Get up close with native animals. Meet real life scientists including geologists, zoologists, mathematicians and marine biologists.
Say hello to our life-size dinosaur. Dipnet for pond creatures. Make a survival shelter or visit the pop-up ocean lab. With over 30 awe-inspiring stalls, live shows and food trucks, there’s science fun for everyone.
Marine Rescue: The Science Behind Saving Lives at Sea
This family-friendly event delves into the scientific principles underpinning marine rescue operations. Attendees can participate in activities such as rescuing a model whale, knot-tying competitions, and exploring underwater drones. The event also features insights into the chemistry of distress flares and the physics of personal flotation devices, with contributions from marine rescue volunteers and experts in marine and earth systems science.
Ever wondered how people are rescued at sea—or how science helps save lives? Find out at Marine Rescue: The Science Behind Saving Lives at Sea! Over two action-packed Saturdays for National Science Week.
In this exciting hands-on workshop, you and your team will take on the role of robotics engineers, programmers, and strategists to bring these robotic players to life. These fundamental concepts will help children understand how our growing world of technology works and give them the confidence to be creators rather than just consumers of technology.
Get ready for a jam-packed day of science fun at the Hunter Science Festival during National Science Week 2025! Experience hands-on activities for all ages, including building and racing solar cars and boats, exploring the HMRI Poo Palace, climbing aboard a real garbage truck, and discovering your environmental footprint.
Enjoy science shows, meet local scientists, and take part in interactive exhibits from organisations like Hunter Water, Irukanji Shark & Ray Centre, Hunter Astronomical Society, and many more. Relax with LEGO®, grab a free plant, and refuel with tasty treats from the BBQ or KT Bakes Cakes. Bring the family, your curiosity, and a picnic for an unforgettable day on the Museum Lawn!
The desire to ‘decode’ or explain the world around us is universal – the question of ‘why?’ is asked everyday by children to scientists and everyone in between. At the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum 2025 Science Week events you can ‘explore the unknown’ under the sea, ‘decode’ environment abstract data and discover ‘nature’s hidden language’ in microscopic detail.
Parasite Pandemic combines interactive science games and activities aimed at sparking interest in the study of parasites. It also aims to provide participants with insights into how scientists tackle global health challenges more broadly.
Are you ready to save humankind from a rapidly spreading parasite pandemic? Step inside the ‘A Race for the Antidote’ Escape Room; visit a Parasite Zoo packed with live and preserved specimens; identify and avoid parasitic infections through virtual reality; meet real-world parasitologists; and explore the fictional world of Manga characters with parasitic mutations.
Parasite Pandemic: Unlocking Science Through Immersive Experience in Kioloa
Explore the University of Wollongong Shoalhaven campus as it transforms into a hub of science activities! From rockets to reptiles to robotics, spectacular science shows to flight simulators, and from inside your body to the sun – we have interactivities for everyone.
Activities include:
Flying a virtual Navy helicopter
Fire and Ice Spectacular science shows presented by the Science Space.
Dragon Training mobile zoo reptile display. See a crocodile, snake, turtle, frogs and more.
Project Bucephalus Lego robotics building and competition with prizes! BYO robot or build one here.
Tours of the observatory, view the Sun with a solar scope, and a telescope display with Shoalhaven astronomers.
Anatomy models of the different parts of the body.
Interactive health and medicine activities! Have your blood pressure measured, see your muscles via ultrasound, and see how dummy patients and simulations are used in medicine and nursing
Sensory science: hold anatomical models (e.g. the heart, brain, voice-box) while listening to an audio description or reading text.
The cafe will be open, and there will also be a sausage sizzle and a coffee cart. Visit the UOW campus in West Nowra this National Science Week. This is a free event and all are welcome.
Discover how to extract the DNA from strawberries, have a go at collaborative gaming and digital drawing, find out about nesting boxes from Bega Valley Shire Council’s environment team, chat to members of the Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness group, delve into robotics with Ozobots or take a robotic lunar rover on a moon mission. Plus, talks from renowned botanist, David Jones on native orchids and from Australian National University medical students.
With interactive activity stations and talks for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, delve into a range of scientific pursuits – from medicine to environment, from technology and robotics to biology and botany.
Whether you’re aiming for hands-on fun, deeper understanding, or cultural connection, this weekend offers a fantastic capstone to National Science Week 2025 in NSW. Have an event in mind—or need help turning this into a shareable blog post? I’m happy to help you add flair and local touches!
As National Science Week wraps up this coming weekend across NSW, the state is a buzz with engaging, thought-provoking, and family-friendly science experiences that bring discovery to life.
Hidden Language of Native Bees: Blackheath
Dr. Amelie Vanderstock presents an engaging blend of ecology and musical theatre, exploring native bee communication, ultraviolet vision, and their ecological roles. The program includes interactive shows, talks, and hands-on workshops for all ages.
The Bee-rilliant Bee Musical
Join in with this playful, musical celebration of bees, pollination, and the magic of nature. Combining science, theatre, and hands-on fun, this interactive show invites families to sing, dance, and create insect art from fruit, veg, and origami.
Bring a picnic, relax on the lawn, and enjoy STEAM like you’ve never seen before – where everyone can BEE a scientist!
1 – 2pm on Saturday 16 August at Blackheath Presbyterian Church Hall
See like a bee in UV!
In this fun, hands-on workshop with Dr Amelie Vanderstock (Amelie Ecology), kids will explore how native bees see the world, communicate through dance, and help our environment. Through music, movement, art, and outdoor discovery, children will learn to spot pollinator-friendly plants and create their own bee-friendly spaces.
A playful, creative way to connect with nature and explore science—no lab coats required!
10 – 11am on Saturday 16 August at Bates Hall Blackheath
Science, Visual and Performing Arts- A multilingual confluence
If you the curious or have the knack for innovation, join in and explore the wonderful magic of science. This national science week event includes interesting live science experiments and STEM based working models and is family friendly, so everyone can get hands on and try different experiments.
Can you set off the lemon volcanoes?
Can you use a balloon to lift up a glass bottle?
Can you make a normal pencil look like a broken pencil when it was in the glass of water?
This event is a family event where there is many fun activities to be follow.
1.30 – 7pm on Saturday 16 August at Redgum Function Centre Wentworthville
National Science Week – Community Day
Celebrate National Science Week at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan. Be amazed by the wonders of nature and plant science.
Explore PlantBank, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and our plant nursery, as you engage in hands-on workshops, family-friendly walks, and tours led by our experts.
10am – 3pm on Saturday 16 August Plantbank, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
Science in the Swamp
Celebrate National Science Week with free family fun at Centennial Park. Science in the Swamp returns to Loch Avenue South packed with science, fun and discovery.
Engage in hands-on experiments. Get up close with native animals. Meet real life scientists including geologists, zoologists, mathematicians and marine biologists.
Say hello to our life-size dinosaur. Dipnet for pond creatures. Make a survival shelter or visit the pop-up ocean lab. With over 30 awe-inspiring stalls, live shows and food trucks, there’s science fun for everyone.
11am – 3pm on Sunday 17 August at Centennial Parklands
Hunter and North Coast
Marine Rescue: The Science Behind Saving Lives at Sea
This family-friendly event delves into the scientific principles underpinning marine rescue operations. Attendees can participate in activities such as rescuing a model whale, knot-tying competitions, and exploring underwater drones. The event also features insights into the chemistry of distress flares and the physics of personal flotation devices, with contributions from marine rescue volunteers and experts in marine and earth systems science.
Ever wondered how people are rescued at sea—or how science helps save lives? Find out at Marine Rescue: The Science Behind Saving Lives at Sea! Over two action-packed Saturdays for National Science Week.
10am – 3pm on 9 & 16 August at Marine Rescue Port Macquarie Boat Shed
Soccer Robots at the Newcastle Museum
In this exciting hands-on workshop, you and your team will take on the role of robotics engineers, programmers, and strategists to bring these robotic players to life. These fundamental concepts will help children understand how our growing world of technology works and give them the confidence to be creators rather than just consumers of technology.
11:45am – 1:15pm & 1:45pm – 3:15pm on Saturday 16 August at the Newcastle Museum
Hunter Science Festival 2025
Get ready for a jam-packed day of science fun at the Hunter Science Festival during National Science Week 2025! Experience hands-on activities for all ages, including building and racing solar cars and boats, exploring the HMRI Poo Palace, climbing aboard a real garbage truck, and discovering your environmental footprint.
Enjoy science shows, meet local scientists, and take part in interactive exhibits from organisations like Hunter Water, Irukanji Shark & Ray Centre, Hunter Astronomical Society, and many more. Relax with LEGO®, grab a free plant, and refuel with tasty treats from the BBQ or KT Bakes Cakes. Bring the family, your curiosity, and a picnic for an unforgettable day on the Museum Lawn!
10:00am – 2:00pm on Sunday 17 August at the Newcastle Museum
South Coast
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
The desire to ‘decode’ or explain the world around us is universal – the question of ‘why?’ is asked everyday by children to scientists and everyone in between. At the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum 2025 Science Week events you can ‘explore the unknown’ under the sea, ‘decode’ environment abstract data and discover ‘nature’s hidden language’ in microscopic detail.
Saturday 16 August at Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
Parasite Pandemic
Parasite Pandemic combines interactive science games and activities aimed at sparking interest in the study of parasites. It also aims to provide participants with insights into how scientists tackle global health challenges more broadly.
Are you ready to save humankind from a rapidly spreading parasite pandemic? Step inside the ‘A Race for the Antidote’ Escape Room; visit a Parasite Zoo packed with live and preserved specimens; identify and avoid parasitic infections through virtual reality; meet real-world parasitologists; and explore the fictional world of Manga characters with parasitic mutations.
Parasite Pandemic: Unlocking Science Through Immersive Experience in Kioloa
Thursday 14 – Saturday 16 August at the Australian National University Kioloa campus
Science on the South Coast – Shoalhaven
Explore the University of Wollongong Shoalhaven campus as it transforms into a hub of science activities! From rockets to reptiles to robotics, spectacular science shows to flight simulators, and from inside your body to the sun – we have interactivities for everyone.
Activities include:
The cafe will be open, and there will also be a sausage sizzle and a coffee cart. Visit the UOW campus in West Nowra this National Science Week. This is a free event and all are welcome.
10am – 3pm on Saturday 16 August at University of Wollongong Shoalhaven campus
Science Fun Day at Bega Library
Discover how to extract the DNA from strawberries, have a go at collaborative gaming and digital drawing, find out about nesting boxes from Bega Valley Shire Council’s environment team, chat to members of the Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness group, delve into robotics with Ozobots or take a robotic lunar rover on a moon mission. Plus, talks from renowned botanist, David Jones on native orchids and from Australian National University medical students.
With interactive activity stations and talks for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, delve into a range of scientific pursuits – from medicine to environment, from technology and robotics to biology and botany.
10am – 1pm on Saturday 16 August at Bega Library
Whether you’re aiming for hands-on fun, deeper understanding, or cultural connection, this weekend offers a fantastic capstone to National Science Week 2025 in NSW. Have an event in mind—or need help turning this into a shareable blog post? I’m happy to help you add flair and local touches!
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