Highlights

Dive into the Great Southern Reef with CharterVR at Science Alive! Put on a virtual reality headset and come face-to-face with Southern Australia’s incredible marine life including whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks, sea dragons, sea lions and more!

Dig Me • Find Me • Make Me | Unleash your inner palaeontologist! Dig A Dino turns the classic wooden dinosaur skeletons into a giant, interactive experience. Kids hunt through a massive ball pit to uncover hidden fossil pieces, then assemble spectacular 3D dinosaur skeletons. It is the ultimate hands-on blend of sensory play and spatial problem-solving.

Build, test and tweak your own Mars helicopter with Lockheed Martin’s hands‑on engineering challenge. Inspired by NASA’s Perseverance mission, you’ll fold, drop and experiment to see how design changes affect flight. A fun, fast STEM activity for curious creators of all ages.

TechSpace Learning is running special hands‑on workshops at Science Alive! for an additional $15 per person. This 45‑minute session introduces participants to programming an Arduino microprocessor using Ardublock, a simple drag‑and‑drop coding interface perfect for beginners. The workshop offers a taste of TechSpace Learning’s six‑week Beginners 1 course.

Take a journey through space in our state-of-the-art mobile planetarium! Looking from Earth, you'll watch as asteroids and comets soar through the sky, discover how to navigate using the stars, and learn how Indigenous Australians used the stars for timekeeping. Discover why Antarctica sometimes experiences 24 hours of daylight and six months later, night will last for 24 hours.

Think Battlebots on TV are only smaller! Adelaide Robot Combat will present their huge Robot Havoc 9 event again at Science Alive! Over 70 different combat robots from around Australia will gather and fight across 4 different tournaments. See some of the most unique engineering creations and stay for the exciting fights in our huge one-of-a-kind arena!

Make your very own Toroidal Ring with the Institute of Backyard Studies Toroidal Ring Vortex Generator. Learn more about this amazing creation and investigate the Science behind how the generator works. How does the wind get it shape? How hard do you hit the Vortex? Give it a Try and make your very own Toroidal Ring to send it flying through the air!