The Cube is one of the world's largest interactive digital display systems. It's two storeys high, has 170m2 of high-definition screens, and includes 48 touch panels.
The space offers new and exciting learning opportunities for school groups, as we can use the responsive display screens to simulate environments, display data and interact with virtual objects.
These 30-minute interactive experiences are available for students in Year 7-12.
To book a Cube experience, email highschool.workshops@qut.edu.au
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 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 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.
Explore our new 5-star Green Building, one of the highest-rated 'green' buildings in Brisbane's CBD and home to The Cube.
You can book a Science and Engineering Centre tour by emailling highschool.workshops@qut.edu.au or download a self-guided school tour of the Science and Engineering Centre.
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