April 19, 2025
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We invite you to join a day of fun with STEM! At the KIPAC + Friends Community Day, you’ll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of STEM topics with a special focus on space discoveries through hands-on activities, engaging demonstrations, and short lectures.
KIPAC Community Day 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.
KIPAC Friends Featured Activities & Live Experiments:
- Aerospace Vehicles
- The Mysteries of Lights & Optics
- Particles to Plasmas
- Color Filters & Polarization
- Solar Art Project (SETI Institute & Unistellar)
- Exploring the Solar System (NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute)
- Making Your Own Pulsar
- Cooking A Comet
- and much more.
Featured Mini Lectures (suitable for middle-school students and above)
- Going to the Core of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
- How Big Is the Universe?
- Making the Stretchable Devices of Tomorrow
- Tuning Into the Dark Matter Radio Waves
- Spying on the Earth and Space with Satellites
- Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Mapping the Sky with the Biggest Camera Ever Built
- and much more.
Additional event logistics (including directions, parking information, and food options) will be shared with registrants closer to the event date. We look forward to seeing many of you on April 19!
Double-check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed. | Image credit/image courtesy of Kavili Institute for Particle Astophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University.
Free
Free, but reservations/ticket requested.
January 18, 2025
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Today: Saturday STEaM at Almaden: Strawberry DNA Extraction
Have you ever wanted to view DNA without a microscope? Are you interested in joining a hands-on lab with fellow science lovers? If so, you might be interested in joining this strawberry DNA extraction experiment! We’ll explain the basics of DNA and its importance, and then we will do a fun, easy lab to extract DNA from strawberries. Finally, we’ll discuss the results and explain why we could see strawberry DNA without a microscope, a seemingly puzzling mystery. Appropriate for ages 8-12.
Free, with limited capacity. Tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis starting 1 hour before the program. Audience: Kids, ages 5-10, Pre-Teens, ages 10-12. Details/descriptions
ADA Accommodation Requests Please double-check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed after they are added to CelebrateFamily.us.
Free
December 25, 2024
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Today: Teen Program Incubator at Almaden Library.
Do you want to lead a program at the library? Do you have a passion for science or math, or coding skills you would like to share? Come to our Teen Program Incubator for feedback on how to turn your ideas into an engaging program. Participants will both give and receive feedback and mentorship from other teens and from branch librarians. Interested in being involved with a program but not sure what? We will help connect you with others with similar interests so you can develop a program together.
Programs developed at our Incubator may be presented as part of our After-School STEaM series (preferred), or possibly as a standalone program on a Saturday. Participants MUST be at least 15-years-old as participation in our TeensReach volunteer program is required to present a workshop. Audience: Teens, ages 15-18, Source
ADA Accommodation Requests Double-check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed. Report Event
Free
November 8, 2024
All day
Today: Grab & Go STEAM Kits: DIY Car at Educational Park Library.
Build your own car with a take-home kit! Children and their families are invited to stop by the Educational Park Branch Library and pick up a STEAM activity to take home (while supplies last). Where: These supplies can be picked up from the Information Desk at the Educational Park Branch Library.
While supplies last. Kits generously donated by Explore.
ADA Accommodation Requests
Double-check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed. Report Event
Audience: Kids, ages 5-10, Source
Free
September 14, 2024
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Explore everyday science at Science@Stockmen’s Park, a free monthly outdoor event for children ages 3 and up, teens, and adults.
Quest offers fun science activities, stage shows, music, and more. Each event features a different theme and 10-25 hands-on activities. There will be something for everyone, from basic to advance science concepts. Spanish speaking volunteers will be present to answer questions.
Design, build, and test your own engineering creations!
Explore Activities 10-11:30 am, 12-1 pm; Engineering Demonstrations 11:30-12 pm
Featured Quest Activities:
- • Bridge Builder
- • Cantilever Challenge
- • Catapult Challenge
- • Circuit Connections
- • Engineering of Heat Mapping
- • Lego Race
- • Makey-Makey
- • Marble Marvel
- • Paper Airplane Launch
- • Physics with Phones: Spinning and Balancing
- • Plank Puzzlers
- • Rocket Launch
- • Wind Voyager
Double-check the event information on the event website as sometimes events are canceled or details changed. Report Event
Image credit/image courtesy of Quest Science
Free
