America’s largest general scientific conference -the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – will convene in San Jose (for the first time in their 167-year history) February 12-16 at the San Jose Convention Center. Families with children, teachers, early-career scientists, and all others with a curious mind are invited to come to events that are free and open to the public.
With cutting-edge, lay-friendly talks on topics such as online education, evolutionary biology, and citizen science, as well as hands-on science activities for children, the AAAS Annual Meeting promises something for people of all ages and interests.
FREE Family Science Days and “Meet The Scientists” Series
Saturday – Sunday, 14-15 February, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center
The meeting will include a Meet the Scientists event, hands-on activities, and stage shows for families with children, teenagers, and young adults. Participants will be able to create an earthquake, tour the universe, and learn about local wildlife. Visitors can also build a helicopter, design their own experiments, and meet cool scientists and engineers.
The 2015 Meet the Scientists stage shows will include a science rap performance by Tom McFadden, efforts to save seals by the Marine Mammal Center, and a demonstration of vintage computers by the Computer History Museum. Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University will explain how human hearing aids are designed based on an understanding of elephants’ hearing, and Lillian Lee of Cornell University will discuss the challenges of building computers that think like humans. Margaret Lowman of the California Academy of Sciences will describe the monkeys, millipedes, and medicines discovered while exploring tropical jungle canopies.
To attend, plan to pick up a free badge at Family Science Days Registration in the San Jose Convention Center, or register in advance via the website. To register, see the show schedule, and a list of exhibitors, visit http://meetings.aaas.org/family-science-days/.
Wow! So cool. I hadn’t heard of this before! Sounds SO amazing.