What's On

NOVEMBER

Staff and family of the University of New South Wales experiences our Tour of the Tummy, Table-Top Science and Make'n'Take Science Toys at their family fun day in November.

SEPTEMBER

HMS Discovery - after 18 months berthed in Sydney, HMS Discovery set sail to Fremantle Ports in September and is due to open for business in late 2011.

ALL YEAR

Kids Dig - our first CDML project can be experienced as part of the Sydney Univeristy Museum's kids activities or see how we inspired The Big Dig Education Centre at The Rocks.

Build It and Tour of the Tummy make appearanced from time to time in shopping malls and festivals around Sydney. Look in local papers for news of these events, or contact us for bookings.

MadLab is available for festivals, special events and even birthday parties - learn safe use of a soldering iron to complete and keep your imaginative gadget. Please contact us bookings and information.

Join the crew of HMS Discovery for a journey of adventure and discovery! Help prepare to set sail from Plymouth, England in 1792. Decide what stores to load for the journey and what to take to resupply the struggling colony in Sydney Cove, Australia. It is four years after the first fleet arrived in Sydney and the new colony’s crops are failing so they need supplies from England. While on board learn about the challenges of life at sea, early navigation and natural history.

Children's Discovery's SciTechTivities at Parramatta Park, Sydney. Experience our workshops and learn as your create wind things, ilusions, balancing birds and things wired up.

Back for a second year at the 2006 Teddy Bears Picnic. This time staging 15 of our favourite science science experiments in support of the Westmead Children's Hospital Sunday 22nd October. Hundreds of parents, children and teddy bears experienced the wonders of tornado tubes, Houdini-escapology and our strange disappearing tree puzzle.

MadLab - the fabulous electronics workshop from Scotland was fully booked at the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research's Science Exposed in Sydney on Thursday 26th October.

MadLab has been staged all over Australia to great acclaim and sell-out workshops. MadLab is one of the many Children's Discovery science & technology activites in regular demand at schools and special events around the country - and overseas!.

Over 20,000 visitors from all over Australia, saw BUILD IT - our house construction zone - in action while a quarter of these experienced hands-on action during the Australian Science Festival in Canberra.

We ran MadLab at the inaugural Ultimo Science Festival in Sydney which saw over 300 participants! Our interactives were also featured on ABC 702 with Simon being tied up in manacles.

Investigating the strange disappearing tree puzzle.

Children's Discovery premiered our latest activity at the Teddy Bears Picnic sponsored by Sydneyforkids.com.au. Family and individual teams would design and construct their own version of a rat-trap powered race car. After several test runs, and some suitable tweeking of design the tracks would be cleared and uniforms donned for a series of furious racing!

Ready, Set, Go! Final heats of the Rat-Trap Racers at the Teddy Bears Picnic

Premiering at the Australian Science Festival, Canberra (17-21 Aug) was the newest and most adventuress interactive experience from the Children's Discovery team. A giant tummy complete with genuine sound effects, entry through the giant mouth and exit 'through the rear' delighted capacity crowds.

Our fantastic staff, Stephanie, Nic and Fiona staged 17 twenty-minute shows everyday to over 2000 eager participants of all sizes and shapes - everyone becoming a 'food item' ready for digestion. The dark interior of the tummy was perfect for our chat on healthy diet and why we need exercise to feel good and stay well. The tummy is ready and waiting to tour again....

Our first gallery and still one of the favourites - you are the "junior discoverers" unveiling the history of The Rocks through careful excavation. Learn what archaeology is all about and use the tools of the trade as you delve into history and uncover the past lives of early European settlers.

BUILD IT @ THE ROCKS 8 - 23 JAN 2005

Due to overwhelming popular demand (thank you!) we were very happy to announce that Build It was back at The Rocks for over two weeks in January (8 - 23) 2005. We thank our sponsor, the Department of Education & Training New Apprenticeships Centres (DETNAC) who made this event possible.

Kids Build It themselves!

ABC KIDS LIVE 16 - 18 JULY 2004

All of Children's Discovery came together under one roof!

Children's Discovery was voted the most popular activity feature with the older kids at ABC KIDS LIVE! and ranked very highly with the little ones too. 

"Everyone raved about how wonderful it all was..", said Trish Powers for ABC Kids Live

Over three days hundreds of children and adults experienced building a house with Build It and excavated an archaeological site in Kids Dig.

Many also choose to experience MadLab and learnt to use a soldering iron to construct their own electronic gadget.

BIG SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DAY OUT

Children's Discovery partnered with the Questacon Science Squad, CSIRO Education and the Department of Education to bring Big Science and Technology Day Out to western Sydney.

Aimed primarily at school students in Years 3 - 8, the activities included science shows by Questacon and technology workshops by CSIRO and MadLab. As well, Build It gave students the opportunity to experience house construction first-hand.

Supported by Uni of Western Sydney, TAFE NSW and NewScientist.

The environment wall under construction with energy effecient power.

SCIENCE IN THE SUBURBS JULY 2002

Thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers who worked so hard to ensure our first outing was such a great success.

Science in the Shopping Mall!