Interactive cube experiences
These 30-minute interactive experiences are only available as an add-on activity to a high school engagement workshop, or in conjunction with another QUT activity, for example, a campus tour. If you would like to visit the Cube as an independent activity, please visit The Cube website.
The Cube is one of the world's largest digital interactive learning and display spaces consisting of 26 multi-touch screens and soaring across two storeys in QUT's Science and Engineering Centre.
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 30-minute 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, email highschool.workshops@qut.edu.au
The future workforce: jobs and skills for the next generation
A 60 minute workshop to guide students to find their Ikigai, and identify possible careers and pathways.
Work Window virtual reality experience
Work Window offers a 30-minute 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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