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World Science Festival Queensland: Toowoomba
Student Day
Friday 15 August 2025
Community Day
Saturday 16 August 2025
Recommended for all ages.
About
Celebrate the wonders of innovation and discovery at the 2025 World Science Festival Queensland Community Day in Toowoomba, during National Science Week. This year our program brings robotics, aerospace, and engineering to life with the theme Robots and 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.
Visit as a school
Epic Engineering
Presented as part of World Science Festival Queensland Student Day in Towooomba, Epic Engineering is an exciting multi-media schools show exploring innovative engineering marvels that have amazed the world.
Epic Engineering uncovers the bold ideas, technical challenges, creative problem-solving and teamwork behind achieving the seemingly impossible.
Join host Angharad “Rad” Yeo (ABC’s Good Game Spawn Point) and a line-up of awesome industry professionals, as they break down incredible engineering feats from Ancient Egyptian wonders to mind-blowing contemporary structures.
This program has been created to deeply engage secondary students Years 7–12 by detailing STEM principals and exemplifying an array of exciting and change-making engineering careers.
Download the free learning resources.
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