Michigan State University Science Festival

The Michigan State University Science Festival Returns!

Schedule of Events:

10:45 - 11:15 AM - Science Festival Opening Ceremony

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility West Entrance Steps

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Life Beneath the Naked Eye

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2004

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Hands-On Look at How Climate Change Affects Plants

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Kid's-Eye View of the Microscopic World

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - A Smashing Time with Nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Alka-Seltzer Rockets

At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility First Floor, South Lobby

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - All About Groundwater: Saginaw's Aquifer in a Cup

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - All Water is Connected and Ours to Protect

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Amazing Animal Adaptations

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Animal Brain Scanner

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Animal Brains

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Aquatic Ecology

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Are Cats Taking Over the World? How You Can Help

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Are You the Next Olympic Athlete? Learn How to Measure Movement and Motor Skills

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Biosystems Engineering Research and Design Showcase

At Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Bouncing Bubbles

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain Break

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain in Your Gut

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Brain Puzzle

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Build Your Own Forest!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Build Your Own Planet or Asteroid!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Building Station

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Celebrate Arbor Day with Michigan DNR

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Chromatography Butterflies

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Color a Brain

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Communicating Science Across Cultures

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Communication Station

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Create a Critter

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Critter Collectors: Fieldwork Exploration Zone

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Defeat the Robots! Save the Day by Escaping the Robot Guards!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Digging the Past: Archaeology on Campus

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Discover Great Lakes Food Webs and Predators: Why Are Fish Important?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - DNA: The Small But Berry Important Molecule

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, North Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Do Microbes Shape Your Brain?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Dress Like a Neuroscientist

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Experience Medical Laboratory Science!

At North Kedzie Hall 3rd Floor

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Experiment with the Principles of Supercomputing Through a Video Game

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore Medical Laboratory Science!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First floor, East wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore the Nuts and Bolts of MSU's Supercomputer!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Explore the World of Artificial Intelligence with MSU’s Supercomputer

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Adaptations of the Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring Plant Cells

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Exploring the Science of Light

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Face Painting

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Fingerprinting using chemistry

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Fish You Well: What Zebrafish Can Teach Us About Development and Disease

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Food Science, Human Nutrition, and Your Health

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Outdoors, West Entrance

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - From Door Knobs to Phone Screens: Identifying Microbial Contaminants in Daily Life

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - GATE

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Get a Kick Out of Chemistry!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Get Your Hands Dirty: The Science of Soil Judging

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Go with the Flow: Exploring the Movement of Water!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Goofy Goggles

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Heredity Mix and Match

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3201

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Herpetology Club: Reptiles Alive!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Homemade Physics

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Human Brains

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Hungry Hungry Neurons

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Is Your Duck Lucky? How to Prevent Stormwater Pollution

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Laser Tweezers: Reach Out and Grab Bacteria!

At Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building B149

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Leaf Lessons: An Exploration of Leaf Shapes and Sizes

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Life Without Water

At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Lithography: How Chemistry Makes Tiny Computer Chips

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Make a Neuron

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Map-Making with the MSU Museum

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Marshmallow Structures

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mass Spectrometry: A MASSive Molecule Decoder

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - MI Diaries: Tell your Story for Linguistic Analysis

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mi Water Source! Enviroscape Education Demonstration

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mindfulness

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Mirror Tracing

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Molecular Diffusion: Just a Bunch of Collisions!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Nervous Breakdown

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility 3rd Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Neuron Discovery Station

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Nuclear Science in Photos: Insider's View of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Ocean Guardians—Learn About Sharks and How You Can Protect Them

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, North Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Oozing Oobleck: Fun With Biological Materials

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Parkinson's Perspective

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Day in the Life

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Phantastic Physics!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Physician Associates: What Can They Do?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plant Genome Investigators

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plants Get Sick Too! Exploring Plant Pathogens with S.P.O.R.E.

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Plasma Propulsion: The Future of Space Travel

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Play a Potato Piano: Learn About Circuits with the East Lansing Public Library's Wonder Lab!

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Playing with Proteins: Visualizing Biomolecular Machines!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Pollination and Seed Dispersal

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Protect Your Brain

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Race for Perfection

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Radioactive!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Ramp and Roll

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Random Rolls, Smooth Spins: Revealing the Secrets of the Bell Curve

At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Reaction Time

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Robotics at Your Fingertips

At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Salt Science: Why Crystals Form Perfect Cubes

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - See a Cow Eye Close-Up!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Sensory Bins

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Soil: A Medium for Life and Art

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Spin, Shoot, Stretch: Physics on the Table

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Spine Model

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - STEAM Plays: Using the Arts to Talk About STEM

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - STEM and Nature Activities with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Stop the Reef Thief`!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Texture Wall

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The "Hidden Water" We Use Every Day

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The "Hidden Water" We Use Every Day

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Cellular Life of Plants: Seeing the Green World Through a New Lens

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Joy of Robot Painting

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Magic of Migration

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Nose Knows

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Quantum Zone

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - The Wonders of Human Physiology

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Touch & Perception

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Triangle Trials: Motor Skills in Action

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - What's in the Box? A Hands-On Investigation of Scientific Practice

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - What's Inside a Plant?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - When to Go to the ER

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Why do Bananas Smell So Good? How Plants Make Themselves A-peel-ing!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Birds and Mammals in Cherry Orchards: Are They Helping Farmers?

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage

12:15 - 12:45 PM - How to Turn the Tide on Plastics Pollution

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage

1:00 - 1:30 PM - Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream!

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage

1:00 - 3:00 PM - Nothing Galling Here! The Science of Oak Gall Ink

At Main Library

1:00 - 4:00 PM - Makerspace Open House

At MSU Main Library

1:45 - 2:15 PM - Butterfly Bonanza: The Ecology and Conservation of Michigan's Well-Loved Insects

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage

2:00 - 3:30 PM - Red Cedar River Environmental History Walking Tour

At MSU Main Library

2:30 - 3:00 PM - AI School: An Introduction to Machine Learning

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage

3:15 - 3:45 PM - The Story of Supercomputing: A Graphic Novel and Silicon Petting Zoo

At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage