Explore the Exploratorium for Free! Pi DayJoin us for Pi Day, the mathematical holiday founded at the Exploratorium and celebrated by number lovers around the world. To honor the never-ending number 3.14159... (and Einstein's birthday), we'll serve up pi-themed activities, rituals, antics, and plenty of pie. Find out what's so special about this famous mathematical constant, ...
Celebrate Pi DayCome celebrate the never ending number! Play games, make up Pi poems and songs and discover the fun of launching pies at far off targets using giant sling shots! While the Sun is shining, bake a delicious solar oven pie and be a judge in our pie tasting contest.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Celebrate Pi DayCome celebrate the never ending number! Play games, make up Pi poems and songs and discover the fun of launching pies at far off targets using giant sling shots! While the Sun is shining, bake a delicious solar oven pie and be a judge in our pie tasting contest.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
Mind Matters: Mapping the Human Mind Through Neuroscience: Meet the CollaboratorsMind Matters is an interactive, visual and educational art exhibit to promote public information and general education about neuro-scientific discoveries. An interdisciplinary exhibit at the intersection of arts, technology and science, it is the fruit of collaboration of small groups of artists and scientists, working together and stimulating each other's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Pi in the Sky Moonlight HikeThe brightness of the Gibbous moon guides our exploration of the redwoods on this easy 2-3 mile hike. After the hike, stay and view the night sky through our telescopes (weather permitting) or tour our Telescope Makers Workshop. Hike will take place rain or shine.
Where: OaklandCost: $17
Ask a Scientist's PI DAY Puzzle PartyTrying to decide how you're going to celebrate Pi Day (3.14) this year? Avoid the congested airports and typical math holiday madness, and join us instead for Ask a Scientist's Pi Day Puzzle Party - a boisterous math and logic puzzle competition, hosted by the inimitable Wes Carroll. You can compete ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Green Friday: Fracking in California: Can We Still Be a Climate Leader!The Sierra Club "Don't Frack California" team will explain what "fracking and acidizing" is and why the oil industry's attempt to greatly expand its efforts in California poses major risks to the water we drink, the air we breathe, our climate, and our future, driving California backwards instead of forwards as ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Suggested donation $3
STEM: Inventing Future EntrepreneursThe U.S. is ranked 52nd in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) education. With a continual decline in Americans pursuing advanced education in STEM fields (> 67% of engineers receiving Ph.D.'s in the U.S. are not U.S. citizens), there is an undeniable need to foster and culture 'home-grown' innovators. The ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: $8 General, $5 Students (includes parking)
Snacking, Gorging, and Cannibalizing: The Feeding Habits of Black HolesA new generation of telescopes is coming online. Operating at wavelengths from radio, through optical, to gamma ray, they are particularly well-suited to time-domain survey science: essentially, making large-format movies of the sky. These telescopes will have the capability to tell us about how black holes grow: through cannibalizing each ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking charge)
