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Sunday
10/25
10/25
Summary: Learn about how recent insight into how Coronaviruses hijack human cells and cause disease have revealed similarities between COVID-19 and cancer. Join UCSF researchers on a virtual tour of their labs and a live Q & A session.
- Type: STEM at Home, Explorer Tour
- Topic: COVID-19, Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join us for Storytime with a Scientist. Enjoy the book Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure by Andrea Camillo and then talk to a scientist about their work.
- Type: STEM Storytime
- Topic: Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade
Summary: This is a virtual Math Circle class for 4th-5th graders. Come explore one of our fun, accessible activities!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Math
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade
Summary: Interactive session on how to build your own cloud chamber and make particles visible to the naked eye!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Health & Medicine, Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Scientists from Smith-Kettlewell will reveal preliminary results of their auditory science experiment and discuss how these results can help advance our understanding of auditory perception!
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home, Community-wide event
- Topic: Biology, Neuroscience
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Get a glimpse of drug development in action: Take a virtual tour of Denali Therapeutics and meet our team, dedicated to defeating neurodegenerative disorders!
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Neuroscience
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo realmente se ve el ADN? ¡Sigue con este experimento práctico para extraer y examinar tu propio ADN!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: The search for life on other worlds – from science fiction to science
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: An interactive tour of medical imaging in radiation oncology! Can you find the toy in the CT image and ultrasound? Join us to learn how medical images are used in medicine!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Health & Medicine, Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join us and share what you found during the Bird Scavenger Hunt! Bird expert will be able to answer any questions about the birds you observed.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Families
Summary: An introduction to different storytelling mediums and their importance in communicating difficult information during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a four-panel comic creation exercise.
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home
- Topic: Careers in Science, COVID-19, STEM & Society
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: Four women involved in different STEM disciplines and at different stages of their career talk about their career path and their jobs, followed by a moderated Q&A session.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Careers in Science
- Target Audience: Teens, Families
Summary: Join us and come see a dancing robot that treats cancer with pin-point accuracy!
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Health & Medicine, Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Your town has $100k to spend on climate change, but how will you spend it? Take on the role of various townspeople as you play your way to a consensus.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Climate Change
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: In this fun science experiment, we use common kitchen items such as flour, oil, water and salt to demonstrate interesting phenomena in polymer science.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join us at the CZ Biohub as we take you on a virtual tour into our diagnostic lab to see how a COVID-19 test gets processed to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Then join us for a live Q&A with some of our scientists.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: COVID-19, Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: A visual comparison of brain anatomy between humans and rodents. Get a microscopic view into brain structure and disease, presented by scientists from Denali Therapeutics.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Neuroscience
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: We will introduce cool optical concepts such as refraction, diffraction, and fiber optics through virtual demos and activities.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Join a Q&A panel with young climate activists about experiences in the climate movement, our passion for these issues, and how you can get involved!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Climate Change, From Teens For Teens, STEM & Society
- Target Audience: Teens, Families
Summary: Curious about astronomy? Ask your questions here! Join a live discussion with scientists at Lick Observatory, who will be answering public questions in a one-hour Zoom event.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Develop a database using Python to analyze opensource COVID-19 data using Jupyter notebooks, pandas, matplotlib to understand impact of exponential growth, differences between states or countries, and efforts to control spread.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Computer Science, From Teens For Teens
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Join the Youth Going Green team for “Creative Construction with Reusable Materials”. This workshop will educate and inspire you to use every day disposable items to create holiday decorations and fun gadgets. Let your creative juices flow.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Thank You Sponsors
On Demand
Summary: Join Maker Ed for a hands-on making session at home! Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon characters come to life? It is done through the process of animation. Stop motion is one style of animation, and it’s really simple!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering, Technology
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center for a closer look at what invasive species are, where they are invading, and how they get there.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Through Techbridge [email protected], we’re sharing regular virtual lessons for educators, our girls, and their families to complete at home. This programming is free and online for anyone to use and engage with.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Bread making needs the use of scientific knowledge, observational skills, and the mathematical knowledge of measuring. The Bread Project plans to demonstrate to students the use of STEM in bread making.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: Youth challenge: design, build, and test a vehicle that can move on its own while carrying a payload of an egg. Post photos and videos of your finished product.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: Teens
Summary: Let’s get cooking! Hungry for Science is a video series that explores the science behind tips and tricks in the kitchen.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology, Chemistry
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade
Summary: See a video of students share about this year’s Robotics challenge and give a demonstration of their team’s competition robot.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens
Summary: Watch a thrilling demonstration of one thought-provoking phenomenon of science with Live Science! by Chabot Space & Science Center. We’ll ask for observations and explanations of what YOU think is happening before revealing the science behind it.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy, Space Science
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: We’re taking last year’s popular Cell-fie booth VIRTUAL — we need your help! Take a photo or screenshot with our Cell-fie materials, share and tag us. We’re handing out prizes to the three lucky winners! Post by 4:00 pm PDT on Sunday, Oct 25.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Careers in Science, STEM & Society
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Thank You Sponsors
Wednesday
10/21
10/21
Summary: Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM aims to give a national platform to speakers to have candid conversations around race and diversity in the STEM fields. Featured speaker: Tyrone Poster, principal investigator at Boston University.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: STEM & Society
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Learn about how our ears and brain work together to untangle the sounds around us, and take part in a real auditory science experiment!
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home, Community-wide event
- Topic: Biology, Neuroscience
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join us for a live reading of the illustrated children’s storybook, “Breakfast Moon”, along with activities and a discussion with the author and illustrator.
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home, STEM Storytime
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, Families
Summary: InspÃrate al unirte a 5 cientÃficos de UC Berkeley mientras hablan acerca de sus carreras en quÃmica, biologÃa, fÃsica y otros (programa en español)
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Careers in Science
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Explore chemistry by making observations about liquids and the reactions they make together. Students become science detectives to identify the mystery liquids!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade
Summary: Learn about how brain oscillations are being used to understand human brain plasticity in health, disease, and interventions.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Discover how technology such as 3D printers, 3D scanners, virtual reality, and die-cutters are used in the UCSF Library’s Makers Lab.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Virtual walking tour of rocks and minerals on Stanford campus.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Geology
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: In this 30-minute activity, we will draw with a dry erase marker on ceramic or glass plates, then pour some water over and watch our drawings “come to life!” At the end, we will ask participants to submit photos of their creations and share them!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade, 3rd – 6th Grade
Summary: In this presentation, you will learn about Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) and how technologies are used to detect cancer and help patients.
- Type: STEM Presentation, Explorer Tour
- Topic: Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Virtual visit of [email protected]’s research equipment, facilities and researchers working on the latest micro and nanotechnology.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: How do scientists go from OMG to Ph.D.? Join us to Ask the Scientist, Dr. Bethanie Edwards from UC Berkeley. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email to join the webinar.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Get an introduction to tissue culture or growing cells, used to test drugs. Talk to the scientists behind this work!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: It’s time to build a paper airplane that can safely transport a passenger!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Come join the Dumont Lab at UCSF for a virtual tour, science demonstration, and Q&A with our scientists! Attendees will be entered to win free FoldScopes!
- Type: STEM Presentation, Explorer Tour
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Neutrinos are some of least understood fundamental particles, come learn about how we measure their mass using the largest length scales (the observable universe)!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Learn how to set up your own camera trap system to see what critters may be sharing your habitat!
- Type: STEM at Home, Community-wide event
- Topic: Environmental Science
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: UC Berkeley’s Dr. Bethanie Edwards shares her research on “chemical signaling induced by various modes of phytoplankton death and the implications for the microbial loop.”
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: El ADN determina la forma, sabor, y olor de las frutas y vegetales que comemos. Juntos aislaremos y veremos dicha información genética.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join us as several UC San Francisco Ph.D. students each present their research in three minutes or less in language accessible to a general audience.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: Learn about our Bird Scavenger Hunt and then get outside during the Bay Area Science Festival and observe birds around you!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Families
Summary: Join us for Storytime with a Scientist. Enjoy the book Doll-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey and then talk to a scientist about their work.
- Type: STEM Storytime
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade
Summary: Real-life inspires Discover Engineering! students to automate robots to keep healthcare workers safe transporting COVID-19 vials. Live Chat with the students who designed it themselves to virtually solve a pressing community problem.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: COVID-19, Engineering, From Teens For Teens
- Target Audience: Teens, Families
Summary: Learn about exoplanets and the exciting search for Earth-like and potentially habitable worlds.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: We can’t see black holes, so how do we know they exist? I’ll discuss a few ways astronomers can infer their existence.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join the Pyle Research Group to view a state-of-the-art low temperature detector, see cool demos, and tour the lab. You’ll feel like you’re really there!
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Introduction and demo to the chemical reaction that won the 2010 Nobel Prize followed by Q&A with Ph.D. students.
- Type: STEM Presentation, Explorer Tour
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: A virtual talk to discuss research on understanding the effects of the of the space environment, including weightlessness and heavy radiation, on skeletal structure and strength.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Thank You Sponsors
Thursday
10/22
10/22
Summary: Software engineers and tech professionals will discuss what it is like to work in tech.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Careers in Science
- Target Audience: Teens
Summary: Grab your lunch and join The Leakey Foundation for Lunch Break Science. We will explore interesting questions with Leakey Foundation scientists, followed by Q&A with you. Take a break from your day and feed your brain with The Leakey Foundation!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: Moderated career panel and Q&A with R&D Scientists from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
- Type: STEM Presentation, Explorer Tour
- Topic: Biology, Careers in Science
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Learn about and color hand-drawn pictures of bees; submit drawings to be featured on Instagram. Q&A with graduate student researchers about bees along with live drawing.
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Explore how your eye-brain connection plays an important role in what you see, but can sometimes be tricked into seeing things that aren’t there.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Neuroscience
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join Tiburon Library Children’s Librarian and EOS Center scientists for a STEAM Storytime, science chat and hands-on activity with materials found at home.
- Type: STEM at Home, STEM Storytime
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade
Summary: Join us for Storytime with an Atronomer. Enjoy the book If Pluto was a Pea by Gabrielle Prendergast and then talk to an Astronomer about their work.
- Type: STEM Storytime
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: Pre K – 2nd Grade
Summary: DNA dictates how fruits and vegetables taste, smell and look and is in every cell of our food. You can isolate and see that genetic information.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Learn to make glue at home and why some types of glue are better than others. Stick with us and learn the science of adhesives!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Chemistry
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade
Summary: Advances in computer face recognition provide the insight into the persona of STEM pioneer and early vision scientist, Leonardo da Vinci, through facial age regression.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Technology
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: It’s time to build and test a earthquake-safe structure!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Spark an interest in fire safety and electricity! Learn about the science of wildfires and how charges impact the world around us.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Climate Change, Environmental Science
- Target Audience: 3rd – 6th Grade, Teens, Families