Explore The Cube
Schools visiting QUT for an on‑campus workshop are welcome to allow students time to explore The Cube before or after their scheduled workshop.
The Cube is a large‑scale digital interactive space located within QUT’s Science and Engineering Centre. Students can freely explore a range of visually rich, hands‑on digital installations at their own pace. The experience is self‑guided and play‑based, and is designed to spark curiosity and support familiarity with the university environment.
Rather than a structured session, Cube exploration works best as a flexible arrival‑early, during lunch or stay‑late option, depending on your school’s schedule.
The Cube is a public space with rotating digital experiences, so the specific content available on the day of your visit cannot be guaranteed.
Physics Observatory
The Physics Observatory is a virtual feast allowing observers to experience some consequences of the laws of physics as they would be felt on other planets in our solar system. Students can run tests on falling objects and a pendulum under different gravity conditions, investigate an Orrery, and interact with sparks from Tesla's coils. The travel time for light photon from the sun to each planet is dramatically represented, as is Einstein's gravity well.
The Living Reef
The Living Reef builds on the success of Virtual Reef released in 2013, with new environments, interactive learning experiences, and including the latest in reef science by QUT researchers. The Living Reef is an immersive underwater interactive experience of the Great Barrier Reef utilising complex artificial intelligence (AI) controlling their behaviours.
Code-A-Bot
Code-A-Bot is an interactive digital game putting you in charge of programming robot workers to collect and sort rubbish, improving the overall efficiency of a waste recycling plant. Using The Cube's digital touch screens, robots can be coded to move, sense, and collect or distribute rubbish around the facility and into the correct bins. You can also work together with other players and their robots to improve efficiencies and achieve the best results to turn DERP (Department of Environmental Resource Processing) into a recycling plant for the future.
Gardens Point campus tour
The 30mins mini campus tour includes:
- a walk through of the general campus areas, showing the facilities and support services on offer
- a student ambassador who'll share their student life experience.
To add a mini campus tour experience to your workshop booking, select it in our booking form as an add-on experience for your program.
The future workforce: jobs and skills for the next generation
This 60mins workshop guides students to find their Ikigai, and identify how their interests and skills could translate into a professional direction. Students identify possible careers and pathways, with the potential to discover what they should investigate further for themselves.
Work Window virtual reality experience
Work Window offers a 30mins virtual reality experience which allows students to job shadow a variety of different career paths. Students can choose from multiple different careers including civil engineer, podiatry, quantity surveyor, exercise physiologist and more.
The experience is akin to doing a day’s introductory work experience and is intended to help students narrow down careers which they would then like to explore further.
This add-on experience works especially well after the future workforce workshop.
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