Undertake a quest across land, sea and space to explore the role of mapping and navigation in everyday life in the exciting exhibit Explore Your World!
In Explore Your World, visitors will use different methods of navigation to find their way through shipwrecks, escape a virtual building and pilot a simulated underwater exploration vehicle. They can take on the challenge of a giant game of Battleship using coordinates, or operate a sonar scanner to map themselves and their friends. By tracking the movement of a spilled cargo container of rubber ducks, they will even be able to explore patterns in global ocean currents through real-life computer modeling. Using the oldest navigational techniques known to humankind, visitors will learn to use the stars to find their way across both land and ocean, just as our ancestors did thousands of years ago.
Layers of data are recorded within maps to help visualize the world and guide how we interact with it. Mathematics provides the tools and language we need to map our surroundings, while the applications of science, technology and engineering help us to navigate and explore them. Explore Your World uses cutting-edge technologies and experiences that are relevant, inspiring and effective in sharing STEM skills and knowledge across the globe.
This exhibition is created by Scitech Discovery Centre, Perth, Australia and produced by Imagine Exhibitions Inc.