Coastal Clean-Up Day 2025 - Golden Gate National Recreation AreaJoin us on September 20, 2025 for Coastal Clean-up Day - the statewide movement that helps clear trash from California’s coastlines and inland waterways every year! Volunteers will enjoy beautiful ocean views while they remove litter and debris, protect native habitats, and help minimize marine debris. This is a fun ...
Where: Cost: Free
TechfestCHM’s all-day TechFest events offer special family-oriented experiences included in the price of Museum admission. We're going retro with a celebration of 1990s technology and culture. Dress up in your best '90s gear, dance to the pop hits of the time, play '90s video games from The Museum of Art ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: $21.50 General, $16.50 Sr, Student, Teacher
The Physics Show - Three PerformancesThe Physics Show is a fun science show for kids and their families. This year we will have two weekends of shows in September, one weekend in December, and three days of shows in January.Performances at 10:00, 1:00, and 3:30 each day.Venue: Smithwick Theater
As our understanding of diverse molecular mechanisms becomes increasingly detailed, the use of 3D animations to depict these dynamic and complex processes has become more common. Animation often requires the synthesis of diverse data, including molecular structures, localization, and temporal information. The completed animation can be thought of as a ...
Where: Cost: Free
Foothills Family Nature WalkEnvironmental Volunteers’ Family Nature Walks program is designed to help community members get to know our local open space areas. Small groups will be guided by a knowledgeable environmental educator during an exploration of a local open space. These small groups will be introduced to fun nature-based activities, and a ...
Where: Los AltosCost: Free
'Apollo 13' in IMAX® at The Tech Interactive“Houston, we have a problem.” With that iconic phrase, NASA’s most dramatic mission became a story of courage, ingenuity, and survival against all odds. Now, 30 years after Ron Howard’s acclaimed film first hit theaters, you can relive the gripping journey of Apollo 13 like never before, in all of ...
Where: San JoseCost: $20.00
California Coastal Cleanup DayJoin the Trashure Hunt! This year, California Coastal Cleanup Day will become the world's largest scavenger hunt. Special "trash" items will be hidden at cleanup sites all across the state. If you find one of them, you can redeem it for valuable prizes! Find your local cleanup site and learn ...
Where: Cost: Free
Sunday, 09/21/25
Coastal Cleanup Volunteer Day at the EECJoin us for Coastal Cleanup Day! This year marks the 36th anniversary of Coastal Cleanup Day and is one of California's largest volunteer events with sites all over the state participating. Help us pick up litter from the roads and trails around the Environmental Education Center (EEC) to help keep our ...
Where: AlvisoCost: Free
The Physics Show - Three PerformancesThe Physics Show is a fun science show for kids and their families. This year we will have two weekends of shows in September, one weekend in December, and three days of shows in January.Performances at 10:00, 1:00, and 3:30 each day.Venue: Smithwick Theater
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: $6
Sea Otter ViewingJoin us for Sea Otter Awareness Week at Berwick Park along Ocean View Blvd in Pacific Grove! Our naturalists will having spotting scopes to look for otters, plus special marine specimens.
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
'Apollo 13' in IMAX® at The Tech Interactive“Houston, we have a problem.” With that iconic phrase, NASA’s most dramatic mission became a story of courage, ingenuity, and survival against all odds. Now, 30 years after Ron Howard’s acclaimed film first hit theaters, you can relive the gripping journey of Apollo 13 like never before, in all of ...
Where: San JoseCost: $20.00
Sun DaySun Day is a day of action celebrating the power of clean energy.The clean energy revolution is here. Solar, wind and batteries are the cheapest form of power on the planet, lowering costs, creating new jobs, and strengthening our communities. But some politicians and industries are trying to hold it ...
Dr. Nathan Rank is a professor in the Biology Department at Sonoma State University, known for his famous BIOL 323 Entomology course. Today he presents aspects of his extensive research on beetles in the Sierra Nevada.Speaker: Nathan Rank, Sonoma State University
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
California Spotlight: Tech AuthoritarianismAs a hub of technological innovation, California is increasingly grappling with complex questions surrounding the influence of technology on society and governance. The rise of powerful tech entities and the rapid advancement of digital technologies are giving way to new forms of control, raising concerns about tech authoritarianism and its ...
Life-Saving Laws: Acts and Actions for Sea Otters - LivestreamAs a threatened species, southern sea otters are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act. Just how important are these laws for the recovery of sea otters and other wildlife? Join experts from The Marine Mammal Center and Sea Otter Savvy for a special?We Were ...
Where: Cost: Free
The State Water Project’s California Aqueduct: Coping With SubsidenceJesse will talk about his work at the California Aqueduct Subsidence Program (CASP), a State Water Project (SWP) initiative focused on addressing the impacts of land subsidence on the California Aqueduct. Under his leadership, CASP has expanded significantly since its launch in 2019 with a current annual budget of more than ...
Speakers: Sally Benson, Stanford University; Adrian Yao, Stanford University
Where: StanfordCost: Free
From the Innovator's WorkbenchInterventional cardiologist Paul Yock has had a transformational impact on patient care around the world. Beyond his direct contributions as an inventor of paradigm-changing health technologies (including the Rapid Exchange angioplasty and stenting system), he catalyzed a sea change in health technology innovation education with the formation of the Medical ...
My group develops catalysts that merge the benefits of enzymes and abiotic chemistry. In one research area, we are using DNA as a nanoscaffold to accelerate the discovery and enhance the activity of abiotic catalyst systems. I will describe a platform to rapidly evaluate up to a million DNA nano-catalysts ...
In 2008, a groundbreaking milestone was achieved when scientists captured the first mass spectra of intact membrane protein complexes, detached from their native detergent micelles, directly in the gas phase. This achievement opened a new frontier in nanoscience, allowing detailed investigation of the molecular architecture and dynamics of these elusive, ...
California’s nature is world famous, and our state’s environmental policies lead the world combatting challenges like climate change. Today, the Trump Administration is attacking California’s environmental policies while threatening to sell public lands and roll back decades of conservation progress across the country. Join us to hear how California is ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 + fees
Wednesday, 09/24/25
Homeschool Days at The Tech InteractiveHomeschoolers, this is your day to play!The Tech Interactive is rolling out NEW Homeschool Days just for you!Shake up your schedule and enjoy a day of hands-on science, engineering, and creativity that complements your curriculum and keeps your learners engaged from start to finish.Each Homeschool Day Includes:Full access to all ...
Where: San JoseCost: $30.00
Progress and Future Challenges in AI, Wearables, and Smartphones for Understanding and Healing DepressionIn this talk, Dr. Picard will share new results from MIT studies that link continuous physiological signals, speech, sleep??"activity rhythms, and in-the-moment mood/stress reports with behaviors and AI-generated forecasts of health change. She will discuss what these patterns reveal about autonomic and neurological activity, the promise of personalized, data-driven depression ...
Harpreet Sareen (New School) on "Post-Human Desigh/ The Great Decentering" Alexander Sorenson (Binghamton University) on "Hidden Hearts: On Selfhood and the (Un)sayable in Rilke's Poetry"See weblink to register
Anthropologist and UC Berkeley alum Anand Pandian (Sociocultural Anthropology, 2004) will speak from a new book about the United States called Something Between Us. The book is based on fieldwork in more than a dozen states, with everyone from homebuilders and truck drivers to activists for gender and environmental justice. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Seeing and Engineering Biomolecular Condensates with Atomic PrecisionPhase separation of RNA-binding proteins via multivalent interactions between aromatic/polar-rich disordered domains contributes to the formation of functional cytoplasmic granules and nuclear puncta. These domains have also been identified as players in cancer-causing fusion proteins as well as the nucleators of neuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia, ...
Step aside chatbots - AI agents are here. According to a new McKinsey & Company report, the "potentially revolutionary" arrival of AI agents promises to transform the way we work. In July, OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, unveiled its latest product, ChatGPT Agent, which it claims can "handle complex tasks ...
Takako Fujioka (Stanford) on "Joint coordination and improvisation in music" Jared Moore (Stanford) on "The Realities and Illusions of AI" Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno (Futureforms) on “Futureforms: Digital Craft”
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Virtual Skeptics in the PubThis is a casual night of socializing with fellow science-forward skeptics and with others inhabiting our oblate spheroidal planet.Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.Click here to join in. Passcode 1023
Where: Cost: Free
The Biology of ConsciousnessAn anesthesiologist explores the circuits behind our mental states.Speaker: Art Wallace, UC San Francisco
After Dark: PatternsAwaken your senses to the intricate designs of the universe and dive into the mesmerizing world of patterns. Listen for recurring motifs in music performed by the Bay Area Persian Music Ensemble. Get hands-on with fractals and flowers, produce your own banger beat, and uncover the secrets of clouds. Join ...
On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity became the first helicopter to fly on Mars at Jezero Crater, completing a total of 72 flights by the end of its mission. The success of Ingenuity resulted in various research efforts to further explore Mars via vertical flight, including two optimized Ingenuity-sized helicopters proposed ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free (charge for pizza)
Understanding Addiction Night 4 - The Power of Radical InclusionGLIDE staff regularly reverse overdoses and GLIDE has also tragically lost clients and community members to overdose. And GLIDE has the solution: a radically inclusive approach to health access pioneered by the Reverend Cecil Williams and influenced by the historic work of the AIDS activists in the 80’s.The key to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 in person, $9 online
Friday, 09/26/25
Sea Otter ViewingJoin us for Sea Otter Awareness Week at Berwick Park along Ocean View Blvd in Pacific Grove! Our naturalists will having spotting scopes to look for otters, plus special marine specimens.
With the rise in global data demands, energy efficiency in electronics has become a defining challenge for sustainable progress in AI, healthcare, IoT, and beyond. Today’s electronics, constrained by materials and architectures that separate computing and memory, are nearing their energy and latency limits for data-intensive applications. Emerging approaches, such ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Rewriting the Periodic Properties of the f-ElementsThe advent of the nuclear age transformed our society. However, fundamental chemical control of the bonding, reactivity, and electronic properties of the f-elements (the lanthanides and actinides) - the elements that drove this initial technological revolution - is still developing. As a result, fulfilling the promise of the nuclear age ...
