Final Frontier Festival

Overview

Commencing countdown, engines on, and prepare to blast off into the great unknown at Melbourne's first ever space festival. Organised by the University of Melbourne Space Program, the Final Frontier Festival will feature five days of talks, exhibits and hands-on workshops. It's like space camp — but for grown-ups.

The festival is set to run from Wednesday, June 29 until Sunday, July 3 at the University of Melbourne campus in Parkville. The first two days are aimed at families and high school students, but you can still get in on the action from Friday. There'll be free talks on topics ranging from NASA's Jupiter missions to DIY space satellites to the science of Aboriginal star knowledge.

The festival will also provide the backdrop to the 24-hour Melbourne Space Hack, in which teams of coders, designers, developers and entrepreneurs compete to solve space-related challenges. Think you've got what it takes? You can still sign up via the festival website for just $10 per person. Go on, embrace your inner (or outer) nerd.