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A clear plastic cup containing wet soil is sitting in a white plastic bowl and surrounded by water.
Rising Water Table

How can you help prevent salt from destroying farmland?

5+ Experiments and activities
A large red and blue cube frame that has orange and blue information panels hanging from top to bottom. Inbetween these panels are blue and orange trianguular and square objects.
Moiré Patterns

Interference patterns create visual illusions.

8+ Exhibits Exhibit
A yellow and blue tub with cut out fish and small fishing poles sits in front of a fake stone wall and jungle scene.
How Big is My Fish?

Objects such as a fish can be measured in different ways.

4+ Exhibits Exhibit
A wheel sits on a cable tightrope, with two masses extending from the wheel so they hang below the cable tightrope
Wobbly Wheel

A wheel can move along a tightrope cable without falling off, if the wheel's centre of mass is altered.

8+ Exhibits Exhibit
Mick Spencer, founder of ONTHEGO SPORTS, hangs out with kids he's helped through the Fair Game program.
ONTHEGO SPORTS

Mick Spencer started his booming sports apparel business from his parents' garage in Canberra.

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