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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: 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: Inspírate al unirte a 5 científicos de UC Berkeley mientras hablan acerca de sus carreras en química, biología, física 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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
Summary: Join one of our experts on sea level rise to discuss the book, Rising by Elizabeth Rush.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Climate Change
- Target Audience: Adults
Summary: Join the Youth Going Green team as they expand minds and “Come Clean with Compost: Understand the Why and How”. The workshop will educate and inspire all who attend.
- Type: STEM Presentation, STEM at Home
- Topic: Environmental Science
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Engineer a marble run from simple materials you already have at home. We hope you’ll join us to see how fun engineering can be!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens
Summary: Join us for a virtual coding club session! All levels welcome!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Computer Science
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: A brief presentation about the Berkely Formula Racing team and our school followed by a Q&A session focused on our school, our team, and our engineering.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults
Summary: Compete against other teens in a fun and interactive science trivia event.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: From Teens For Teens
- Target Audience: Teens
Summary: Learn tools and techniques to use at home and save gallons of useful rainwater from carrying pollutants to the Bay.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Environmental Science
- Target Audience: Adults
Summary: Combining light and gravitational waves to solve the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Join our live session featuring three scientists recruited from around the country to give short 10-15 minute, accessible public talks about Health/Environmental Science. 5-10 minutes of Q&A with the public following each talk.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Environmental Science, Health & Medicine
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Learn programming basics and create your very own snow animation with Python and trinket.io! Beginner friendly.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Computer Science, From Teens For Teens
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Join producers from KQED’s DEEP LOOK science series and spider experts for a special screening of spine-tingling spider episodes.
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Via radio/smartphone, Urban Astronomer Paul Salazar and KPOO-FM DJ Marilynn will broadcast/stream a guided tour of the Moon, planets, and constellations.
- Type: Community-wide event
- Topic: Astronomy
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Visit SLAC virtually through a live, guided tour.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults
Summary: The Techbridge Superheroes signal, which lights up whenever anyone needs help, has just stopped working. The wires in the circuit are broken and you need to fix it using materials that can be found around your home. Will you be able to fix it?
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Join us for Storytime with a Scientist. Enjoy the book The Princess and the Petri Dish by Sue Fliess and then talk to a Chemical Engineer about her work.
- Type: STEM Storytime
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Pre K - 2nd Grade
Summary: Join us to discover why tidal marshes are so important in meeting the challenges caused by climate change and sea level rise.
- Type: STEM Presentation, Explorer Tour
- Topic: Climate Change, Environmental Science
- Target Audience: Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: This activity teaches participants how yeast “eats” sugar, when making bread. Yeast uses sugar to make the dough rise by producing the gas, carbon dioxide, that makes holes in bread
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Visit SLAC virtually through a live, guided tour.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults
Summary: ¿Alguna vez te imaginaste vida más allá de la Tierra? ¿Qué tipo de animales crees que existirían en otro planeta?
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Space Science
- Target Audience: Families
Summary: Learn basic circuitry and optical fibers with San Francisco Public Library To Go Science Kit to build a fun fiber optic flashlight. Pick-up a material kit for free!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Explore the inside of a live honey bee beehive with Planet Bee Foundation! You’ll be buzzing with excitement during this un-bee-lievable virtual field trip!
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Biology
- Target Audience: Pre K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: Visit SLAC virtually through a live, guided tour.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults
Summary: 49ers EDU provides STEAM-based virtual learning experiences for students, families and teachers via interactive web-based exercises and video lessons.
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: Pre K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 6th Grade
Summary: Visit SLAC virtually through a live, guided tour.
- Type: Explorer Tour
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults
Summary: In this last day of Catch that Critter, it’s show and tell time for the students! We’ll take a look and compare our findings from around the Bay Area.
- Type: STEM at Home, Community-wide event
- Topic: Environmental Science
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: HP Innovating Beyond the Garage invites all attendees to fun-packed presentations, demonstration videos, and hands-on activities to learn how things work and the science fundamentals. Let’s celebrate science and technology together!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Technology
- Target Audience: Pre K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Adults, Families
Summary: In this guided activity, you will power up LEDs with batteries you make yourself from household materials!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Physics
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Families
Summary: Build a device that stops a ball from bouncing!
- Type: STEM at Home
- Topic: Engineering
- Target Audience: 3rd - 6th Grade, Teens, Families
Summary: Come hear career and academic advice from Biotech professionals from Genentech — founder of Biotechnology!
- Type: STEM Presentation
- Topic: Careers in Science
- Target Audience: Teens