Full Schedule of Events
Plan Your Visit
This year, the MSU Science Festival is back live and in person! Check each individual event title for more information including location, age recommendations, and pre-registration information.
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Don't miss our STEAM Expo Days April 5 & 6: Enjoy a weekend full of dazzling demonstrations and hands-on activities that will be sure to awe and inspire.
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Ongoing Events
Check out these special activations held throughout the Month of April. From art installations to a statewide BioBlitz, there's so much to do and see!
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Ongoing throughout April
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Tuesday, April 1
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Let’s Get Down to Quizness: Aquatic Invasive Species Trivia Night
At Ellison Brewery and Spirits 4903 Dawn Ave East Lansing, MI 48823
Pre-register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqYIxNzLDB1B1UM0sT7BttE8XhaROCnVRpkY8PUOCF1TiqfQ/viewform
Requires pre-registration6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Thursday, April 3
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Biology on Tap
At Michigan Wildlife Conservancy 6380 Drumheller Rd Bath Twp, MI 48808
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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Saturday, April 5
STEAM Expo Day (MSU Campus)-
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Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 -
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 -
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 -
Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
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 -
Celebrate Arbor Day with Michigan DNR
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202, Booth 12
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 -
Communication Station
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cow Eye
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 North Kedzie
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 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 -
GATE
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
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 -
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 1201
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 -
Leaf Lessons: An Exploration of Leaf Shapes and Sizes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Lithography: How Chemistry Creates 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 -
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 -
Parkinson's perspective
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Phantastic Physics!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Plant Genome Investigators
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Play a Potato Piano: Learn About Circuits with the East Lansing Public Library's Wonder Lab!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 -
Reaction Time
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
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 -
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 -
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 Nose Knows
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
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 -
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
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Sunday, April 6
STEAM Expo Day (MSU Campus)-
All Events
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Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 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 -
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 -
Amazing Animal Adaptations
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
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 -
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 -
Coloring, Creative Math, and Computers
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 -
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 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 the Science of Light
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Fingerprinting using chemistry
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Food Science, Human Nutrition and Your Health
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Outdoors
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Fun Experiments to do at Home
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
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 -
Homemade Physics
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201
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 -
Map-Making with the MSU Museum
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South 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 -
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 -
Phantastic Physics!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Pigment Picassos
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Plant Genome Investigators
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Play a Potato Piano: Learn About Circuits with the East Lansing Public Library's Wonder Lab!
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Magical World of Microbes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
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 -
Using AI to Chat About HPV With Adolescents
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
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 -
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
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Thursday, April 10
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Communication on Tap
At UrbanBeat 1213 Turner Rd Lansing, MI 48906
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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Saturday, April 12
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Statewide Astronomy Night at Stargate Observatory
At Stargate Observatory 20505 29 Mile Rd Ray, MI 48096
7:00 - 10:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at the MSU Observatory
At MSU Observatory
7:00 - 10:00 PM
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Friday, April 18
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Night at the MSU Museums
At MSU Broad Art Museum
Pre-register at https://50807.blackbaudhosting.com/50807/Night-at-the-Museums-18Apr2025-2
Requires pre-registration6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Friday, April 25
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Campfire Science
At Woldumar Nature Center 5739 Old Lansing Rd Lansing, MI 48917
6:00 - 9:30 PM
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