World Science Festival Queensland Townsville

16 - 17 May 2025

Student Day
Multiple sessions – 9:30am, 11am, or 12:30pm, Friday 16 May 2025

Community Day
9am – 3pm, Saturday 17 May 2025

Recommended for all ages.

Queensland Museum Tropics

All events are free. Bookings are essential for schools and groups.

Join us in this May for a stellar Saturday of free fun, learning and adventure.

World Science Festival Queensland is an interactive, family-friendly roadshow, offering a jam-packed program of explosive live demonstrations, hands-on activities and oodles of cool science objects to see and touch.

This year our program brings robotics, aerospace, and engineering to life with the theme Robots & Rocketry.

This free, all-ages event will feature several hands-on activities across three exciting and enriching zones:

Launch your own rockets in Lift Off and aim for the stars.
Dive into Roving Worlds, where you’ll explore robotics and coding to venture into new frontiers.
Discover Surviving Space and learn about astrobotany – the science of growing plants beyond Earth.

Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to spark curiosity, inspire young minds, and ignite a passion for space exploration.

Community Day

Saturday 17 May

9am - 3pm
Everyone is invited to this free, family-friendly Community Day (no booking required).

Student Day

Friday 16 May

World Science Festival Queensland’s School Program returns to Townsville on Friday 16 May to engage students in stimulating and inspiring experiences that showcase careers in STEM.

Bookings are open now for teachers and home educators to register their student groups.

Educators can select from two activities:

Robots and Rocketry (Years P–12): Hands on activities bringing robotics, aerospace, and engineering to life
- Launch your own rockets in Lift Off and aim for the stars.
- Dive into Roving Worlds, where you’ll explore robotics and coding to venture into new frontiers.
- Discover Surviving Space and learn about astrobotany – the science of growing plants beyond Earth.
Tech Driven Innovations (Years 7–12): This panel-style presentation followed by a Q&A will be presented in the Queensland Museum Tropics Theatre for secondary school students. The event will present the intersection of technology, biology, and engineering. Experts from Queensland Museum and The University of Queensland will delve into the transformative power of deep learning in fossil research, and the groundbreaking potential of cyborg insects in disaster response. Through these diverse perspectives, students will discover how nature’s principles and past discoveries inspire revolutionary solutions for today’s global challenges.

Bookings from homeschoolers are welcome.

Bookings for the Student Day are essential, register using button below:

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