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What’s it like to explore the most polluted areas of our oceans? Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte was the first person to swim the Pacific Trash Vortex northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. With his team aboard the support ship I am Ocean, they documented how the largest ecosystem on Earth is being ...
Join us for a day of creativity, awe-inspiring demonstrations, and tons of free activities for you and your friends and family. At our upcoming Fall Open House, our faculty will be on hand demonstrating techniques in blacksmithing, woodworking, and glass flameworking - just to name a few. You can also get hands-on with ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Getting into Medicine for High School Students w/ Nae Tanaka Want to learn more about getting into college or being involved in the healthcare field? Teens In Health, a teen-led organization based here in California, presents Nae Tanaka, a renowned college admission counselor who will guide high school students on how to apply to college and give advice to what ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Trekking the ModelJoin a Ranger or docent on a guided tour of the Bay Model, a 1.5-acre hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Discover the stories of the two major operations that took place at this location between 1942 - 2000.
Counter Culture Labs is proud to be hosting the American Society for Microbiology Agar Art Contest (http://www.asm.org/agarart) - last year we won in the Maker division!.Come and learn how to make colorful and unique living art. Design your own art piece using our colorful bacteria, and then submit your piece for a ...
Where: OaklandCost: $20
Not just ancestry: 23andMe and genomic researchWhile most people are familiar with 23andMe's commercial products such as sequencing of DNA to determine ancestry, many do not realize that the company has the largest re-contactable research database of genotypic and phenotypic information in the world. More than eight million 23andMe customers have consented to participate in research and have ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: free
MISSION: MARSWe are making progress globally - from the Arctic to Antarctica, from underground labs to the International Space Station - to achieve the first human voyage to Mars. Come explore the what, why, how, when, and who of our first journey to the Red Planet.Speaker: Pascal Lee, SETI and Mars ...
