UCSF’s Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) is excited to announce the 2015 Bay Area Science Festival (10/22/15 to 11/7/15). From the science of earthquakes to the physics of lasers, the Bay Area Science Festival promises to make science accessible, interactive, and fun, highlighting the impact of science and innovation on our lives.
WHAT: A celebration of the unique science and technology of the Bay Area. Scientists from our local universities, companies, and museums will share their stories, passion and fun science activities, as they highlight the excitement of science in the Bay Area!
EVENTS: Hundreds of hands-on-activities, provocative conversations, electrifying performances, and tours of cutting--edge facilities. More information can be found at: www.bayareascience.org
Are you interested in being part of the Festival?
We have a number of Opportunities for Scientists to be involved during the Science Festival week (see below) and at our finale event:
Discovery Days at AT&T Park - Saturday November 7, 2015, open to the public 10am - 4pm (note new start time of 10am)
This free event will be the grand finale of the Bay Area Science Festival. It will feature hands-on science for everyone, including interactive activities, comedians, and stage shows to captivate and excite any aspiring scientist.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED at Discovery Days:
To run educational science booths with hands-on activities for families from 9am-12:30pm (includes set-up), 12pm-2:30pm or 2pm-4:30pm (includes clean-up).
Booth Activities include:
1. Cabbage Juice Chemistry- Cabbage juice is an awesome chemical indicator. Its interactions with acids and bases from household items will produce a number of colors. Teach about acids and bases you can find in your own home!
2. Forensic Science: Crimes are solved by using the evidence left behind by the perpetrators. Using fiber analysis and paper chromatography you will help children identify the perpetrator from amongst possible suspects!
3. Floating and Sinking: Help children experiment and problem solve to find out the best design to make their "ship" float and hold cargo. How does it change in fresh water vs. saltwater?
4. Senses: Our senses allow us to detect and experience our environment in multiple ways. These activities allow visitors to experience and engage with three of their senses and to learn more about how the brain collects information through our senses.
5. Dissection Activities: Perform dissections of Cow’s eyes, sheep hearts, or sheep brains, in order to show the public the inner workings of these organs and organism.
6. Hand and Joint models - What would you do without your joints? Your movement and everyday activities would be greatly affected. Kids come and see what that would be like by trying some simple tasks without the use of the joints in their hands.
To help with set up /"load-in" (this means, helping us get materials to booths for all of the 120+ exhibits coming to AT&T Park). This is from 7am-9am, so if you don’t mind waking up early and using your muscles, you can come early and see the AT&T Park in it’s more raw/empty form.
To help with Breakdown/"LOAD-OUT" - this means, after the Discovery Day Event closes at 4pm, helping us to get all the materials from the exhibit booths down to the exhibitor's vehicles. This is from 4pm-6pm
Other SEP Scientist Opportunities:
- Explore! Discover! Create! @ Cal State East Bay-Concord- Saturday 10/24, Open to the public: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Volunteers needed to run an educational science booth with hands-on activities for families.
- Hands-on Science at the Farmer's Markets in the East Bay- Saturday, 10/24, Berkeley Downtown Market, 10am-3pm. Volunteers will lead hands-on (food related) science activities.
- Volunteer at: BAH Fest (The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) at the Castro Theatre on Thursday 10/22/15 - event runs from 7-8:30pm, Volunteers needed from 5pm until 9:00pm. Volunteers get in free, sorry no guests for this event. More information about BAH Fest at: http://bahfest.com/
- Followed by DNews After Dark (Discovery news) at the Castro Theatre on Thursday 10/22/15 event runs from 9pm-10pm.
Volunteers needed from 8pm-11pm. Volunteers get in free, sorry no guests for this event. - Volunteer at: Tested.com at the Castro Theatre on Friday 10/23/15 - event runs from 7pm to 8:30pm, Volunteers needed from 5pm until 9:00pm. Volunteers get in free, sorry no guests for this event.
- Followed by You’re the Expert/Quiz-o-Tron at the Castro Theatre - on Friday, 10/23/15 from 9pm to 10pm, volunteers needed from 8pm-11pm. We need 10 volunteers for this event. More information: http://theexpertshow.com/
- Volunteer at: Nerd Nite on Alcatraz Island Tuesday, October 27, 2015. The event runs from 7pm to 11pm, volunteers needed from 6pm to 12midnight. We need at least 10 volunteers for this event. The transportation to and from the event will be by boat and will be paid for by BASF. Sorry no guests for this event.
Cal Academy's Creatures of the NightLife Event, Thursday 10/29- Activity runs 6:00pm-8:30pm Volunteers needed to engage the public in explorations of human organ specimens (including the brain, lungs and intestines). We need 12 volunteers for this event. As a volunteer you will be able to bring in a +1 and will receive a couple of drink tickets.
**Please be sure to sign up to volunteer for any of these above activities by September 18th. To sign up fill out a form at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BASF2015_SEPVol
We hope you can join us this year and THANKS!
Unleash Your Inner Scientist.
The Bay Area Science Festival is organized by SEP, at the University of California, San Francisco
WWW.BAYAREASCIENCE.ORG