Join us for a fun-filled day of science! This event will take the form of a science festival, featuring numerous stations with live demonstrations, experiments, and hands-on activities. A series of mini science lectures will also runn in parallel, introducing the latest discoveries in astronomy and other closely related STEM fields.

This event is free, open to all, and especially kids- and family-friendly! While walk-ins are also welcome, registration is strongly encouraged as we will be providing key event information to all registrants. We’ll also be raffling off a meteorite to one of the registered groups.

Hands-on activities & live experiments:

• Aerospace Vehicles
• The Mysteries of Lights & Optics
• Particles to Plasmas
• Color Filters & Polarization
• Materials Gone Wrong!
• Cell Biophysics
• Fruit Batteries and Sensors
• Solar Viewing
• Solar S'mores
• Solar Art Project (SETI Institute & Unistellar)
• Exploring the Solar System (NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute)
• Making Your Own Pulsar
• Cooking A Comet
• Gravity Simulator
• Galaxy Zoo
• Experimenting with UV-sensitive Beads
• Infrared Camera
• Cosmic Magnetism
• Cloud Chamber
• Van der Graaff Generators (SLAC)
• Detecting Dark Matter Particles
• Illuminating Dark Matter
• Cantennas for Dark Matter Searches
• Printing Out the Universe
• What Makes a Telescope? (Lick Observatory)
• Ask An Astronomer/Scientist Anything

Mini Lectures (suitable for middle-school students and above):

Series 1 (Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200):

• 1:30-2pm: Going to the Core of the Earth’s Magnetic Field (Benjamin Ofori-Okai; SLAC)
• 2-2:30pm: Making the Stretchable Devices of Tomorrow (Lukas Felix Michalek; Chemical Engineering @ Stanford)
• 2:30-3pm: Tuning Into the Dark Matter Radio Waves (Chelsea Bartram)
• 3-3:30pm: The Cosmic Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts (Navin Sridhar)
• 3:30-4pm: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Sofia Sheikh; SETI Institute)
• 4-4:30pm: Mapping the Sky with the Biggest Camera Ever Built (Pat Burchat)

Series 2 (Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201):

• 1:30-2pm: Searching for Dark Matter a Mile Underground (Ruben Coronel)
• 2-2:30pm: Feeling the Pull of Dark Matter With Stellar Streams (Christian Aganze)
• 2:30-3pm: Taking X-rays of the Largest Objects in the Universe (Anthony Flores)
• 3-3:30pm: [No talk; speaker cancellation]
• 3:30-4pm: How Big Is the Universe? (Kimmy Wu)

More event logistics (including directions, parking instructions, food options) will be communicated to the registered attendees closer to the event date. We hope to see many of you on April 19!