The science festival's aim is to ensure that quality science education is accessible and affordable. We cultivate a wider awareness of science to the general public, inspiring them by its wonder and engaging them with its implications for the future.
Since our inaugural festival in 1998, the festival has engaged over 300,000 participants across Aotearoa, New Zealand, celebrating all areas of science, from the mysterious outer limits of the universe to the marvelous inner workings of robotics, with all the weird, wacky, weighty and wonderful stuff in between. The festival features guests from wider New Zealand and abroad alongside amazing local talent, transforming Dunedin into a city alive with science.