Zoom into STEM January School Holiday Workshops

Online and interactive while in your home. Kids can zoom into these school holidays workshops and create movies, animations, arcade games, roller coasters and more. Limited spaces.

SCRATCH Junior for Mini Coders

This short introductory class is for young kids taking their first steps in coding.  Children don’t need any coding experience but should know how to work their devices.  Children will make simple animated stories using drag and drop visual block coding that is ideal for beginners.

SCRATCH Coding for Beginners

This is a fun session, where children learn the basics of Scratch coding.  No experience is required. Your child will create mini animations, art and games, whilst learning about algorithms, events, conditionals, functions, operators and more.  Throughout the session, children will have the opportunity to use and explore their own ideas and will be encouraged to get creative.

Paper Engineering Workshop

This is a class packed full of fun paper craft activities for younger kids.  We will make paper animals that move, toys and games.  Get ready, we will be cutting, drawing, measuring, colouring and sticking!

Cardboard Engineering

In this highly interactive cardboard construction class, children will make their own games they can actually play with cardboard and tape! Children will learn about cutting, scoring and folding techniques that will make their cardboard creations move, turn, slide or stay still.  Who knew those old boxes could be so useful 

Paper Roller Coaster

Love roller coasters? We’ll go on a wild ride to find out just how awesome they are and what makes a really good one. Have fun with energy transformation and create jumps runs and loops to make the most amazing and exciting roller coaster you can.

Stop Motion Animation

This is a beginner’s class for those with little to no experience in creating Stop Motion Animations.  Children will design their own backgrounds and film and edit movies starring their own toys and imaginations!

Electric Circuits (Introduction)

If you enjoy making things, and sometimes breaking things too, then this workshop is for you!

In this 2 hour (virtual) hands-on workshop you will learn about and make various electric circuits such as Morse code machines and burglar alarms. You’ll have a great time learning to make virtual electric circuits and code a simulated ‘BBC Micro:Bit’ to add extra features to your circuits using wires, motors and sensors, while learning basic coding concepts. We’ll bring rock, paper, scissors to digital life along with whatever crazy inventions your creative minds can think of!

Make your own arcade game

Every heard of Pac Man and Space Invaders? These are the arcade games your parents played when they were young. Now it's your turn to make your own arcade game!

Learn the basics of game design in this introductory workshop using MakeCode arcade. You must be familiar with coding in Scratch in order to participate in this workshop.

Video Editing and Special Effects in Premiere Pro

Learn how to make your own videos using Adobe Premiere Pro in this 3hr workshop. We work with multiple layers of audio and video, apply special effects like greenscreening and learn how to properly export your video for sharing online.

During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to pick the brain of a professional videographer and gain an in-depth understanding of the editing process. You will learn the best editing workflow to cut together your footage with music, titles and effects. You'll be able to effectively choose shots, polish your audio and colour correct your video. This workshop is perfect for those of you who are either interested in learning the basics, or those who have already shot your video and want to learn how to put it together.

It is required that you have some familiarity with editing video in iMovie (or similar) before attending this workshop. You also need to have Premiere Pro already installed, up-to-date and running beforehand. Many Government independent schools already have the required Adobe account free for you to use.

 DIY Forensics 

This forensic science workshop is designed to intrigue budding super sleuths who enjoy their science mixed with a bit of drama. 

Sizzling Space Workshop

We're heading out of this world! Join us on a journey through our solar system and beyond as we look at our place in space. What are supernovas? How do astronauts survive in space? From trajectories & orbits to rocketry & materials science, we’ll look at current and future space programs, operations and missions. Have fun with hands-on activities to do along with Fizzics scientists!

This show will be run on Zoom Webinar by Fizzics Education.

Destination Moon Show

Discover the science required to reach the Moon and the space programs that made it all happen. From trajectories & orbits to rocketry & materials science, we’ll look at current and future space programs, operations and missions. The kids will gain an appreciation of astronomy and gain insight into our place in the Universe.

This holiday show will be run on Zoom Webinar by Fizzics Education.

Fantastic Light and Colour Show

Investigate the amazing properties of light in this exciting workshop sure to blow your mind. See lasers bending and bouncing and watch holograms appear right before your eyes. Have fun with the electromagnetic spectrum as you explore the mixing of light and colors, and learn how things glow and make some rainbows at home! We’ll learn how light can be split, mixed and bent plus see color-changing experiments & much more! From science with bubbles to creating a Newton pinwheel, there’s plenty to do as we look at light with the scientists from Fizzics Education.

This show will be run on Zoom Webinar by Fizzics Education.

Liquid Nitrogen Show

Liquid Nitrogen! Find out how solids, liquids, and gases change when rapidly heated & cooled. Smash a tennis ball! Shrink a balloon instantly! What happens to living things if they are frozen? How does a liquid nitrogen sprinkler work? Let’s explode balloons & more…. there’s science behind it! You’ll learn about how materials really work as you see the scientists at Fizzics Education use Liquid Nitrogen to show how solids, liquids & gases really work.

This holiday science show covers phase changes, expansion and contraction, basic cell theory, air pressure and more!

This show will be run on Zoom Webinar by Fizzics Education.

3D Design Online Workshop

In this workshop you'll be learning the basics of 3D design using Tinkercad, using both the standard and ‘code blocks’ (similar to Scratch) features to code your design. You’ll be shown all the tips and tricks for making your models as effectively as possible, as well as how to best design your models for printing on common 3D printers.  It’s important to note that the models you design in this workshop will not be printed for you, but the participants can continue to work on them after the session indefinitely and will also be shown how to download and prepare the models for printing on home or school 3d printers.