STEM: Hobart and Port Arthur 5 Days (Air/Air)

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On this hands-on STEM journey, students discover Tasmania, renowned for its renewable initiatives and pristine landscapes. Learn about traditional Indigenous bush tucker and land management, investigate clean energy solutions, experience farm-to-plate, and bring ideas to life through engaging design challenges.
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Day 1 Hello Hobart
Travel to Hobart
Arrive in Hobart
Dinner
Details: Indigenous Bush Tucker guided walking tour and tasting
Walk through a culturally rich landscape with Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) guides and enjoy a guided journey that shares both the history and contemporary story of the area. Along the way, taste native bush tucker in season and gain first-hand insight into how the Palawa continue to enjoy cultural foods and practice culturally centred land management across Lutruwita/Tasmania. The experience concludes with a unique tasting of native flavours.
Details: The sustainability design challenge
Navigate a prestigious property recognised with a 6-Star, Green Star rating. Using maps and clues, earn points by identifying displays that highlight sustainability features, upcycling, resources, and architecture. This self-guided activity encourages curiosity, teamwork, and active exploration.
Details: Creative design thinking for real-world problems workshop
Explore how young people can drive sustainability by developing innovation and systems-thinking skills to create meaningful, real-world solutions.
Day 2 Hobart
Breakfast
Packed lunch
Dinner
Details: Hydropower Station guided visit
Hydro Tasmania is Australia’s largest generator of clean, renewable energy and its leading water manager. Gain an exclusive insight into a power station and explore the process of hydropower generation, with the opportunity to witness world-class engineering and operations that keep Tasmania’s electricity supply reliable and secure. This activity is subject to availability.
Details: Clean energy workshop
Get hands-on in an energy workshop, where you’ll be challenged to either design, engineer, or test wind turbines or even take on the role of a town planner balancing energy needs and sustainability. Workshops are designed to be age-appropriate and engaging for all participants. This activity is subject to availability.
Details: Sheep and crop farm guided visit with afternoon tea
Explore a 750-acre working sheep and cropping farm, home to 3,000 sheep bred for both meat and wool. Learn about the farm’s diverse production, from opium poppies for pharmaceuticals to seed crops such as onions. Watch a live sheep-shearing demonstration, see skilled farm dogs in action, and join a guided forest walk. Engage in meaningful conversations about crops, conservation, and landcare—then relax and enjoy afternoon tea to round off the experience.
Day 3 Hobart
Breakfast
Packed lunch
Huon Valley excursion
Driver-led Hobart sights
Dinner
Details: Climate change, carbon cycle and ocean systems workshop
Explore how carbon cycles through the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Discuss processes such as photosynthesis and respiration, and examine how the ocean regulates global temperature and energy through systems like ocean currents. Investigate the human impacts of additional carbon in marine environments and their role in climate change. This activity is subject to availability.
Details: Tahune Airwalk tour
Discover the famous Tahune AirWalk, an elevated walkway 30 metres above the forest floor, and 50 metres above the Huon River with spectacular views of the World Heritage Area.
Details: Huon Pine walk
Connect with the majestic ancient pines on this gentle walk. This boardwalk follows along the banks of the Huon River, where you’ll encounter some of the oldest trees in the world – the legendary Huon Pines. The interpretive signs along the trail share fascinating stories about the trees’ significance, from their role in the region’s ecology to their historical importance in boat building.
Details: Salamanca Place
Held every Saturday from 8.30am to 3pm, Salamanca Markets hosts over stallholders representing artisans, designers and producers from all over Tasmania. Savour and delight in local delicacies while enjoying the buskers and entertainers on the street.
Details: Battery Point
Once a maritime village, Battery Point is now a balance of modern chic with old world charm. See eccentric cottages and laneways, and quaint streets filled with stories of Hobart’s historic past
Details: Constitution Dock
Take your time to explore this historic area that fuses the old and new. Built in the 1830s you'll find historic Georgian sandstone warehouses lining the dock which were once used to store wool, grain and whale oil but are now converted into businesses, galleries and restaurants. There are many other historic buildings and sites in the area including the Hobart Heritage Steam Crane that was built in 1899 and the 1935 drawbridge that is still in operation today.
Day 4 Hobart--Port Arthur
Breakfast
Travel to Port Arthur
Dinner
Details: Farm to plate cooking lesson and lunch
The experience begins with foraging in the garden for the ripest spring vegetables. Anything not available in the garden is sourced from local Tasmanian producers. Learn about the plants you harvest and explore the gardening philosophy of farm-to-plate. Once harvesting is complete, head to the kitchen to prepare and cook your meal.
Details: Cheese and chocolate farm guided visit and sample tasting
Showcasing Tasmania’s finest produce, discover how this family-run business crafts cheese and chocolate and enjoy a taste or two of these delicious treats.
Details: Port Arthur Historic Site ghost tour
Join Port Arthur's black-cloaked guides and venture out into the night by lamplight to hear vivid stories of strange occurrences that have been reported here.
Day 5 End tour
Breakfast
Packed lunch
Depart Hobart
Details: Port Arthur Historic Site guided visit and cruise
Hear stories of life at Port Arthur and consider whether the settlement was a place of punishment, reform, or both, during visits to the Waterfront, the Penitentiary Precinct, the Hospital and the Separate Prison. View Southern Tasmania's most picturesque and unspoilt harbour cruising past Point Puer and the Isle of the Dead.
Details: Oyster Farm guided visit
Today at the oyster farm, discover everything about oysters—from spat to table (and yes, you’ll learn what spat is!). Enjoy a freshly shucked oyster and wash it down with a locally brewed drink. Learn about Candy Abalone, meet the divers, and explore the methods of drying abalone—not to mention the iconic ‘wall of abalone’ perfect for photos.
Tour Includes:
  • Return-trip airfare
  • 4 overnight stays at accommodation
  • Meals as per itinerary
  • Guided sightseeing tours and city walks as per itinerary
  • Visits to select attractions as per itinerary
  • WorldStrides Tour Journal (available upon request)
  • Note: Tour cost does not include airline-imposed baggage fees, or fees for any required passport or visa. Please view our Terms & Conditions for a full list of items that may not be included in the cost of your tour.

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