Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2025

Program Summer School Holidays 2024

Block Coding with Minecraft

Name: Block Coding with Minecraft
Start: 2025-01-08T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-22T05:00:00.000Z
Location: Castle Hill

Ended 22 Jan 2025

3 sessions

$110

Castle Hill

Experiment with different combinations of user-friendly block code to modify and control your own Minecraft world. This full-day workshop encourages creativity, collaboration and problem-solving in a digital realm specially constructed by Powerhouse.

The workshop series uses Minecraft Education, a game-based learning platform that promotes creative thinking and knowledge sharing in an immersive online environment. The editing tool Microsoft MakeCode for Minecraft is also used for block coding, the popular programming activity.