[3] The UNESCO office in Jakarta[4] invited CPAS to join a mission to Cambodia to conduct a survey to identify and assess the needs of the country with respect to science education in schools and universities.

Other activities include joining with UNESCO (Apia) to help in its aims to raise social participation in science in and around the Pacific.

Other activities of CPAS include the presentation of workshops for secondary school science teachers and others in Fiji, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan and New Zealand.

[7] It owes it origin to the establishment, twenty years earlier, of a modest science centre in a vacant primary school in Canberra.

Questacon was the brainchild of Michael Gore,[8] a senior lecturer in Physics at the Australian National University, who became its first director.

Dr Susan Stocklmayer[11] was appointed to the position and immediately announced her intention of establishing a university centre for science communication.

The citation commends CPAS as “a university centre whose brief is to empower Australians by encouraging in them the confidence of 'ownership' of modern science.