High School Robotics Competition FIRST(R) Tech Challenge will be hosting their first of 12 Northern California competitions at DeVry University, Fremont campus. Up to 16 high school teams from the SF Bay area and beyond will be competing in this year's "Bowled Over" challenge. This is head to head robotics like sports - each ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
San José Clean Energy ShowcaseCome see the latest in solar, wind turbine, electric vehicle and solar hot water technologies. Bring the family and get everyone excited about clean energy! The time for clean energy is now! With money-saving rebates from the State, making home energy improvements has never been easier or more affordable. Come ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Stanford Saturday University Stanford Continuing Studies presents Stanford Saturday University (SSU) on Saturday, November 5, 2011. This one-day event on Stanford campus offers visitors the opportunity to hear from some of Stanford's most interesting and articulate faculty members on a range of scientific topics.Topics/speakers include:Power: Why Do Some People Have It, and Others ...
Join us for an extraordinary morning with NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur! Astronaut McArthur will introduce a screening of the IMAX movie Hubble, followed by a Q&A session detailing her experiences with Hubble. Learn more about the space-related activities available for you in the museum, and in your classroom from NASA.Reservations required at ...
Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for cool, food-related investigations.This program is jointly supported by Science@Cal, Community Resources for Science, and the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
Bruce Alberts is Professor of Biochemistry at UCSF, the Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine, the former President of the National Academy of Sciences, a co-author of the preeminent Cell Biology textbook and one of President Obama's new Science Envoys. His research has focused on the structure and duplication of chromosomes. Nano-High, ...
Calling all Educators! Leveraging excess stock/equipment/materials from labs/companies across the area, educators will have access to high quality materials for their classrooms. Everything at the event is free, but please only take what you need for your classroom. This FREE Giveaway is for educational and non-profit use ONLY.
Join us for an extraordinary morning with NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur! Astronaut McArthur will introduce a screening of the IMAX movie Hubble, followed by a Q&A session detailing her experiences with Hubble. Learn more about the space-related activities available for you in the museum, and in your classroom from NASA.RSVP: ...
Where: San JoseCost:
Understanding Hepatitis B and Liver CancerEach year, nearly three quarters of a million people die from liver cancer. Liver cancer is one of the most fatal cancers, with a five-year survival rate under 15%. However, the majority of cases of liver cancer are preventable. Long-term (chronic) infection with the hepatitis B virus is the leading ...
The Hayward Fault is a major earthquake fault that runs for nearly 55 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay region. At the Earth's surface, the Hayward Fault is actively creeping about 0.2 inch per year, unlike that of some other earthquake faults such as the San ...
See the work of North Bay science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) organizations. Enjoy hands-on experiments, demos, and exhibits. Save a droid ICU patient, create a pulsar, extract DNA, drive robots, eat liquid nitrogen, and more! VIP Parking for electric vehicles.
Where: SonomaCost: Free
FIRST Robotics LeagueWhat the Olympics are for sports and the Nobel Prize is to science, FIRST Robotics is to kid's engineering.Take part in the most prestigious robotics competition for youth in the world this fall by joining Celsius and Beyond team. You will learn about project management, computer programming, robotics design, analytical ...
Stanford's Genetics department leads hands-on activities every day of the festival. Try your hand at DNA spooling from animal cells and look at your own DNA from cheek cells under a microscope. Figure out what 1000 letters of your DNA look like. Solve a mystery by looking at "DNA" patterns ...
Bring the whole family for an afternoon of fun, food, games, and support K-12 science education.We invite you to join us to celebrate the accomplishments of our students and to learn more about how you can inspire the next generation of scientists
Join fellow educators to explore the California Academy of Sciences inside and out, and walk away with resources, activities and inspiration to bring science into your classroom in exciting new ways. Participate in workshops and behind-the-scenes tours, converse with scientists, and dive deeper into the Academy's exhibits and research collections.Free ...
These two ancient foods owe their glory to microscopic magic. Join Discovery Street Tours on this stroll down quaint San Francisco streets while stopping at neighborhood parks and shops to explore the role of unseen organisms in creating flavors and textures. Get your hands on some gluten, admire the microbes ...
College of San Mateo and the San Mateo County Astronomical Society present:A Family Science and Astronomy Festival (free and open to the public)2:00 pm: Free planetarium show 2:30 to 4:30 pm: Science demonstrations by CSM science faculty (Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Physics) 4:30 to 6:30 pm: Astronomy events, hands-on workshops ...
Join leading researchers Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Peter Norvig of Google for an intriguing discussion about the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, moderated by KQED's Tim Olson. We are extremely fortunate to have Eric and Peter on our stage – they've known each other for ...
(Program jointly sponsored by San Leandro High School, the East Bay Astronomical Society and UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department and Space Sciences Laboratory)Free Community Star Party that includes:Afternoon solar viewing and fun educational astronomy activities (3:00 - 6:00 pm) Special "teen zone" solar activity booth for teens only -- as part ...
3 pm to 9 pm: Astronomy activities rain or shine, evening stargazing if it is clear.Astronomy activities every hour until 7 PM,stargazinguntil 9 PM. During the day special solar telescopes will be available to view the Sun. In the evening you can observe the Moon, Jupiter, and other fascinating objects. ...
Dr. Gary Weston will lead two brief observing sessions separated by an indoor lecture:4 - 4:30 pm: Science Picnic Area, East Lawn of Science Buildings: Observing the Sun with a Telescope 4:45 - 5:45 pm: South Science Building 143, Lecture: "Recent Discoveries and Beautiful Observations in Astronomy" (The lecture will ...
The Montgomery Hill Observatory will be hosting the following activities:Lunar Geology for Children ages 9 - 12,from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Space is limited and on a first-come first-served bases. For reservations, please contact the astronomer at: celso.batalha@evc.edu Observations of Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, the Pleiades and other interesting celestial ...
Hike the hills under the glowing light of the moon. Join us for a moderately strenuous yet serene 5-6 mile hike in our backyard, the Redwoods. Guided by an experienced hiker, participants will begin and end the hike at Chabot. Hike guide will meet participants in the main lobby.
(Program jointly sponsored by the Mt. Tam Astronomy Programs, Wonderfest, and the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers)5:30 - 6:30 pm: a talk by Dr. Michael Kuhlen, from the Theoretical Astrophysics Center at UC Berkeley, on "The MilkyWay as a Dark Matter Laboratory" 6:30 pm - 9 pm: Telescope observing in the ...
Enter from behind the school, go past the school, turn on Sagebrush, enter back parking lot. Look for sandwich boards directing you to the planetarium entrance.)Regardless of weather, there will be a workshop about black holes with free NASA materials conducted from 6 - 8 pm in room 511. Registration ...
Free telescope viewing will take place (weather permitting) outside the planetarium from dark to 10:00pm. Everyone welcome. Saturday evenings are public show nights at the planetarium, and shows will be presented as usual, with 3 astronomy shows and 2 laser light shows that night. See our web site at: http://planetarium.deanza.edu ...
Free public planetarium shows every 30 minutes inside the MaST Star Lab planetarium from 6 pm – 9 pm. Free telescope viewing outside the Newark Memorial Star Lab Exhibits demonstrating how the Earth rotates on its axis while it revolves around the sun, why stars appear to move across our ...
The stars are out and the party is on! Join us for star-gazing, science talks, a live planetarium show, hands-on demos, a special theatre showing, and Discovery Lab for our junior explorers (under 7 years old). Festivities are 6pm - 10pm.Hands-on demos throughout the Center presented by our Galaxy Explorers6 ...
Open House andstar viewing event from 6 - 9 pm. The evening will feature short planetarium programs, demonstrations, hands-on activities and views through telescopes. The event is free and open to all. Parking will be available in the three-story Central Avenue Parking Structure. The telescope viewing portion of the event ...
Telescope viewing of the Moon, planets, star clusters and more, as well as hands-on astronomy activities, will be hosted by faculty and students. Telescopes will be set up from 6:00-10:00 PM on the Tower Lawn between Tower Hall, the Martin Luther King Library and the Science Building. (See grid location ...
We will host a free Planetarium Show at 6:15 PM in the DVC Planetarium (code PL on the map) and observing at the DVC observatory, from 7 - 9 pm, weather permitting. The closest parking is in lot 4. In case of clouds or rain, observing will be cancelled, but ...
Co-hosted with the Peninsula Astronomical Society, the SETI Institute, and NASA's Lunar Science InstituteTelescope viewing at the Foothill Observatory, 6:30pm to 9:30pm. The observatory will be open free to all visitors. Telescopes from the Peninsula Astronomical Society will be set up in the area around the observatory, provided the sky ...
Free public planetarium show at the Chabot College planetarium, Building 1900, from 7:00 - 7:45 pm. (Space is limited and reservations are required. Please contact Scott Hildreth at: shildreth@chabotcollege.edu for information.) Free telescope viewing from Chabot College campus from 7 pm - 9:30 pm, weather permitting. In case of cloudy ...
Telescopes will be set up from 7 to 10 pm in the park to show the gibbous moon, bright Jupiter, faint Uranus, colorful double star Albireo, the Ring Nebula, and other celestial objects as conditions permit. Please car-pool if practical, as parking is somewhat limited. When entering the lot, try ...
7:00 – 11:00 p.m.: Public viewing through the 36-inch Great Lick Refractor and the 40-inch Nickel Reflector 7:30 p.m.: Astronomy Lecture: Two Views of the Moon -- Dr. Graeme Smith, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz 9:00 p.m.: Astronomy Lecture: Astronomy and Cosmology (not to be ...
The event will take place on the UCSC campus, on a field behind the Music Center starting at 7 pm. We will be setting up numerous telescopes. Visitors will be taken on a tour of the night sky from planets and moons within our solar system to star forming nebulae ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
JUMBO SQUID SOIRéE!Gu l f of the Fa r a l lon e s Nat ion a l Ma r i n e Sa n c t u a ry Fa r a l lon e s Ma r i n e Sa n c t u a ry As soc i at ...
8 - 10 pm: If the weather is clear, we will be observing on the Main Plaza of the Lawrence Hall of Science in the hills above the Berkeley campus, through some of our "Saturday Night Stargazing" telescopes, with the astronomy staff. The event will be free and open to ...
8 pm - 10 pm: Telescope viewing at the SSU Observatory. The observatory will be open free to all visitors for stargazing and discussion with astronomers and student docents. The Observatory is located inside the stadium area at the SE corner of the campus (East Cotati Avenue and Petaluma Hill ...
Planetarium Shows at 8pm and 9pm (The planetarium is on the 4th floor of Thornton Hall -- Room TH422; Go in the main door of the building, take the elevator to the 4th floor, and look for the planetarium entrance there. Once a show has started, you can't get in.) ...
Find out what happens when artists spend nine months in a science lab. This exhibition features eight works developed during the Swiss artists-in-labs residency, which places artists in scientific settings.
