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15 April 2019
Come and join us for a morning of outdoor play, exploration, and creativity. Supported by the Dept of Education, the City of Hobart and lots of fantastic volunteers, this free event is for children aged…
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13 April 2019
Presented by the Astronomical Society of Tasmania, the Public Night Sky Viewing Evening gives EVERYONE the opportunity to view the wonders of the Tasmanian night sky. A pretty first quarter Moon will be in the…
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12 April 2019 - 17 April 2019
A chance to enjoy dinosaur themed activities to get you into the dinosaur spirit! More than forty activities over five festival days and one night as TMAG is taken over by children and we open…
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7 April 2019
Budding rocket scientists, chemists, entomologists, electrical engineers, robotics experts and plant DNA scientists are needed for this year’s Love Living Locally festival. The Kids Love Science program is packed full of ‘hands on’ activities for…
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4 April 2019
A Fulbright Public Lecture presented by William P. Schonberg, P.E., D.S. F.ASCE, F.ASME, AssocF.AIAA. What is space junk, where does it come from and what is its impact now and into the future? This is a free public lecture.…
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31 March 2019
Scientists and teachers will present a series of workshops and hands-on activities for kids of all ages including guided hikes, aboriginal science and dance (with NITA guides), DNA extraction, crystal chemistry, create your own ocean…
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28 March 2019
Could so-called green firebreaks – strips of low flammability plant-life – protect Hobart from a bushfire disaster? Dr Tim Curran, Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Lincoln University in New Zealand, is a world authority on…
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26 March 2019
A special public talk by Dr Krzysztof Bolejko from the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania. The Universe on its largest scales (i.e. scales of billion of light years) has the form of a web. The cosmic…
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24 March 2019
Presented by Dr Costan Magnussen. Although typically considered diseases of middle or older age, the initial stages of heart disease begin in childhood. This presentation will overview some of Dr Magnussen’s research findings on the role…
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23 March 2019 - 24 March 2019
The Royal Society of Tasmania has put together a once-in-a-lifetime program of talks on the latest discoveries about dinosaurs and evolution. We have invited the top dinosaur experts from around Australia to present their recent research on…
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22 March 2019 - 13 May 2019
Re-live the horror of the 1919 Spanish Flu in this searing art-meets-science exhibition that shines a spotlight on modern attitudes to disease. Pandemic features powerful contemporary art including a ceramic installation about breast cancer where viewers can…
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21 March 2019
Teachers are invited to join Dr.Rob Wiltshire, PooFlip creator and Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania’s Biological Sciences for a workshop to unpack the PooFlip and revisit the Flip family: EucaFlip, TreeFlip and FungiFlip. The latest in the…