Student Activities

Do you want to understand the connection between space & mineral exploration? Improve your knowledge about waves playing with a Moire pattern animation illusion; bring it to the event & take part in the Exosphere Challenge. Place your Geode in the sand, connect to the satellite, analyse the data, & beat everyone to the punch identifying the minerals hidden in the sandpit! Exploration is changing!

STEM Reading and Design Challenge - Our Sustainable Future. The Premier’s Reading Challenge and partners are teaming up again to challenge students to read about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) in the lead up to National Science Week. Projects will be on show at STEM Day Out!

Friday August 2, 9:30am -11:30am Women In STEM Presentations. Group registrations a must! For senior high school (years 10 - 12) to join us for presentations from leading female scientists, engineers and professionals from a diverse range of STEM careers.

Be a Structural Engineer! Structural engineers are a specialized type of civil engineer. They focus on designing strong buildings that can support their own weight and the weight of everything in them while also standing up to forces of wind, weather, temperature, and earthquakes. Work in teams to develop a free standing structure, 20cm tall min & holding a weight! Are you up for the challenge?

This is an opportunity for intrepid learners to test their engineering skills as they build their own pipeline to transport a golf ball or a ping pong ball across the purpose-built, Science Alive! pipeline arena. What ingenious method will you and your team use to get to the end?

In this challenge, students design an artwork to attach to a Stobie Pole that tells a story or shares a message about renewable energy. As a group, increase awareness about sustainability and/or renewable energy in a positive way.

The Mary Anning Art Prize submissions will be on show at Science Alive! This prize is for young South Australian artists who have been challenged to create an original piece of artwork that tells us something about the prehistoric life of South Australia. Immerse yourself in the creative work of the next generation of Australian artists!

The Oliphant Science Awards is excited to be hosting our entire Open Day at Science Alive! On display will be all the Models & Inventions projects plus the winning entries from all the other categories which includes Crystal Investigations, Games, Multimedia, Photography, Posters, Programming Apps & Robotics, Science Writing & Scientific Inquiry.

Using whiteboards is a quick and easy way to create 2D animation. Your learners will create their own drawn animated sequence, captured with the Stop Motion Studio app. This activity guarantees to unleash the creative potential of young minds.

Are you a budding paper engineer? Test your skills as you fold, flip and fly your way to victory in the Science Alive! Paper Plane Challenge. Build your own paper plane and then put it through its paces in the purpose-built paper plane arena. Be in the running to be named the Champion for longest distance flown.

The Army Drone Racing team are back in full force this year! Join the team as they show you how it's done with their precision drone skills and let you test your skills, whilst getting hands on!

Roaming STEM Day Out, witness Dr Quark performing feats of unicycling, juggling, rolla bolla and plate spinning to demonstrate the effects of gravity, momentum, friction, air pressure, energy transfer and push and pull forces.

Discover, learn and laugh with Nitro Nat as she wanders the halls looking for the next student to inspire at Science Alive's! STEM Day Out.

The team from bugs n slugs have been bugging Science Alive! patrons right from the start. Every year they bring an amazing array of incredible invertebrates that you can get up close and personal with. Getting bugged is not such a bad thing!

Some of Australia’s amazing Aussie animals will be on site for an up close experience! Friendly native birds, reptiles, mammals and marsupials participate in a safe, interactive experience. Our awesome wildlife demonstrators teach you about the critters that call Australia home.