A BETTER OPEN DAY
Explore your future at UniSC. Join us on campus and discover where your journey can take you.
Register for Open Day and you'll automatically go in the draw to WIN a helicopter tour for two from Noosa to K’gari!
We're lucky to have a research and learning centre on the UNESCO World Heritage-listed K'gari, the world's largest sand island. In fact, many of our students will experience the wonders of K'gari through field trips and you could be taking it all in from a bird's eye view!
See full terms and conditions of the Open Day competition here.
Here's some of the fun and interactive activities you can get involved in at Open Day!
Spend koality time with our researchers
Get up close and personal with an adorable koala and chat with our brilliant researchers about the ground-breaking chlamydia vaccine, developed and tested right here at UniSC. Tree-mendous!
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Meet our humanoid!
Come say hi to the future! Our humanoid will be on campus at Open Day. Grab a selfie, have a chat and see what it can do – it's full of surprises!
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Maker Space: A playground for creativity and innovation
Sharpen your creative problem-solving skills as you experiment with materials and use cutting-edge technology to bring your ideas to life.
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Nursing skills experience
Get hands-on experience using the life-like electronic manikins and listen to lung and heart sounds, measure pulses and use stethoscopes.
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Midwifery skills experience
Develop the art of palpation, honing your hands-on skills to assess foetal position, monitor growth and connect with the miracle of life.
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The mechanics of mobility
Curious about how prosthetic limbs or orthotic supports are made? Take a behind-the-scenes look at our lab where science, creativity and compassion come together to shape the future of mobility.
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Camp champ
Ready, set, camp! Team up and race against the clock to set up the ultimate overnight campsite. Test your teamwork, problem-solving and outdoor skills in this fast-paced challenge.
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Can you hack it?
Step into the lab and uncover how hackers hunt for information. Use real open-source tools to explore the tactics used in cybersecurity breaches, and learn how professionals, like our resident former FBI agent, defend against them.
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Race our Robodogs
Is it a dog? Is it a robot? It's Robodog!
Race to see who can get Robodog through the obstacle course in the fastest time!
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Accounting in action: behind the numbers of a café business
Step into the shoes of a real-world accountant. Get hands-on with financial transactions and analyse reports from a café business, as you explore how accounting drives key decisions around loans, investments, and business success.
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Mad Scientists Lab
Can you complete a series of hands-on science challenges in time to escape from the Mad Scientist's laboratory? After you escape (we believe in you), be sure to visit our lab and talk to staff about our biomedical, pathology and medical sciences programs.
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Write your next chapter
Start your literary journey at our creative writing and publishing display. Discover published gems, meet seasoned writers and ignite your own creativity with interactive wordplay.
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Step into the studio and feel the beat!
Join a live recording session in our world-class music studios alongside ARIA award-winning producers and industry pros. Get an insider’s look at how music is made and experience the creative energy of the studio in action.
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Lights, camera, action!
Experience the magic of live performance as you see lighting design, directing and acting come to life in our award-winning theatre.
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Can you build a better neighbourhood?
Play our award-winning Sustainable Neighbourhoods game and put your planning skills to the test! Discover how smart design choices can shape better cities and help drive the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sports Precinct tours
Whether you're into sport or just curious, our world class facilities, high-tech recovery zone, and our impressive Arena – home of the Sunshine Coast Lightning, is worth checking out. With a student gym membership, you could end up training alongside Olympians and professional athletes!
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Campus tours
Get to know the campus with a current student! Join a guided tour with one of our friendly Student Ambassadors. They’ll show you the best spots, share insider tips, and answer all your questions along the way.
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Art gallery exhibition –Transfer
The Transfer exhibition focuses on contemporary visual artists with connections to South East Asia who explore textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcases a proliferation of textiles and fibre art practices that aim to reinterpret cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at the intersection of art and life.
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Phinny and Sandy
Our mates from the Dolphins NRL are sending their best looking reps to Open Day. Don't miss the chance to snap a selfie with Phinny and Sandy – PHINS UP!
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Rest and recharge
Welcome to the wellbeing hub. Sink into a bean bag, take a deep breath and let our counselling staff and students use their skills to help you unwind, recharge, and reconnect with your inner calm.
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Spin to win: Biosphere edition
Take a spin and learn more about a UNESCO biosphere – and how UniSC is the only university in the world based across not one but three interconnecting biospheres! Test your knowledge, learn something new, and everyone wins a prize!
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Game on! Try social sports
Pickleball, badminton, futsal! Come try your hand at a range of fun, fast-paced social sports and discover how you can stay active, meet new mates and get involved on campus. No experience needed – just bring your energy!
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Exploring Japanese calligraphy and culture
Try your hand at Japanese calligraphy and learn to write your name using Hiragana or Kanji characters. Discover the beauty of the written language and explore where studying Japanese at UniSC can lead you – from exchange programs in Japan to global career opportunities.
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Can design prevent crime?
Explore how the built environment can influence criminal behaviour in this interactive criminology activity. Through a guided walk and group discussion, you'll uncover key principles of situational crime prevention and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), while gaining a glimpse into the criminological theories taught in the degree.
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Soar into the future of aviation!
Find out how you can make history as part of UniSC’s eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) project which aims to have its first student-built electric aircraft take to the skies from later this year.
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Heart stopper: emergency in action
Think you’ve got what it takes to perform in a high-pressure emergency? Watch our student paramedics spring into action as they manage a simulated cardiac arrest in real time. Then, jump in and lend a hand. You could help ‘save a life’ in our state-of-the-art paramedicine lab.
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Have a yarn with midwives
Come and have a yarn with our midwifery academics in a culturally safe and inclusive space. From hands-on placements to the unique values that guide midwifery care, we’ll chat about what makes our degrees special, and what it really means to support women and families through one of life’s most powerful journeys.
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How good is your diet?
Step into our Nutrition and Dietetics clinic and put your diet to the test with the Vege Meter – a quick, non-invasive tool that measures carotenoid levels in your skin to give you an insight into your fruit and veggie intake. Discover how everyday food choices impact your health and see how UniSC students use real-world tools like this to promote better nutrition and wellbeing.
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Inside OT: a behind-the-scenes look at occupational therapy placement
Visit our Occupational Therapy Clinic and get a feel for what it’s like to be an OT student on placement. Chat with expert lecturers and students to discover how UniSC’s OT degree prepares you for real-world practice through hands-on learning and clinical experience.
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A day in the life of an OT student
Get hands-on in our occupational therapy skills and simulation lab and discover what it’s like to study OT at UniSC. Join our expert staff and students as you explore therapeutic tools and techniques from assistive devices and mobility aids to splinting and beyond.
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Step into the future with Haven XR
Get an exclusive tour of the tools, tech and talent shaping the future of extended reality (XR). Then, dive into one of Haven XR’s immersive adventures and experience the virtual world for yourself. It’s your chance to see how UniSC students are gaining real industry experience without leaving campus.
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Health in action: real-world care, real-time teamwork
See how UniSC health students work together in a live scenario, showing what happens when paramedics, nurses, and allied health professionals team up in the real world. Narrated by expert staff, this short simulation brings collaborative care to life.
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Now showing: your future in film
Experience the creativity of our students through a showcase of short films and music videos. Drop in anytime, grab a seat and enjoy the show. While you're here, chat with our passionate screen media staff about how your future could unfold behind the camera or on the screen.
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What can your body do? Test your performance
Explore the fields of sport studies, clinical exercise physiology, and sport and exercise science with hands-on activities that put your body to the test. Try out force plates, timing systems and other performance tools used to assess movement, strength, speed and balance. Discover how students at UniSC learn to support athletes, improve health outcomes, and understand human performance – whether it’s on the field, in the clinic or in the lab.
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Immersive engineering: from blueprint to 3D
Step into the future of engineering with an immersive 3D experience! Navigate a massive treatment plant digital model using a videogame controller in a high-tech room surrounded by 270-degree 3D screens. See how civil, mechanical, electronic and mechatronic engineering come together through cutting-edge design and get a feel for the real-world skills engineers use to build big.
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Get rolling with Leo Rover
Join our engineering team for a hands-on experience (or should we say, wheels-on!) featuring a live demo of the Leo Rover – an agile, all-terrain robot used in our mechatronics course to explore robotics, control systems, and autonomous navigation.
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Science uncovered
Dig deep into soil science, discover the gritty truth about ocean plastics, meet the spineless stars of the ecosystem, and come face to face with shark jaws. See how scientists study evolution, ecosystems and pollution at our pop-up hands-on museum.
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