[1] In the 1980s, three influential Western Australian figures – physicist Emeritus Professor John de Laeter, mining leader Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, and politician and computing pioneer the Hon.

The Scitech Discovery Centre features interactive exhibits designed and built in the onsite workshop to engage visitors with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

Feature exhibitions are rotated every year following a particular theme, storyline or concept, which are built in-house by Scitech's design, graphics, and workshop departments.

These feature exhibitions are also designed to travel and have toured to science centres nationally across Australia and internationally including North America, Saudi Arabia and China.

Visitors experience immersive and informative full dome shows about the stars, planets and universe, as well as premade films on astronomy and other topics.