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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Ongoing throughout April
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Ongoing throughout April
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Tuesday, April 1
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All Events
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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://bit.ly/scifest-quizness
Requires pre-registration6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Thursday, April 3
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All Events
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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)-
All Events
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Science Festival Opening Celebrations with The Great Lakes Brass Band
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility West Entrance Steps
10:45 - 11:15 AM -
Life Beneath the Naked Eye
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2004
11:00 AM - 3:00 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 -
Cancelled: Stop the Reef Thief`!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cancelled: What's Inside a Plant?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing
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 Minds: Building with Words
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!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 -
Pleasant Peninsula
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 -
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 -
Science and Zombie Molecules
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
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 -
Squirrelly Engineering
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 -
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 Amazing World of Polymers
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 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 -
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
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Birds and Mammals in Cherry Orchards: Are They Helping Farmers?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM -
How to Turn the Tide on Plastics Pollution
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
12:15 - 12:45 PM -
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
1:00 - 1:30 PM -
Nothing Galling Here! The Science of Oak Gall Ink
At Main Library
1:00 - 3:00 PM -
Makerspace Open House
At MSU Main Library
1:00 - 4:00 PM -
Butterfly Bonanza: The Ecology and Conservation of Michigan's Well-Loved Insects
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
1:45 - 2:15 PM -
Red Cedar River Environmental History Walking Tour
At MSU Main Library
2:00 - 3:30 PM -
AI School: An Introduction to Machine Learning
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
2:30 - 3:00 PM -
The Story of Supercomputing: A Graphic Novel and Silicon Petting Zoo
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
3:15 - 3:45 PM
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Sunday, April 6
STEAM Expo Day (MSU Campus)-
All Events
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Sunday Stroll: BioBlitz Edition
At Atlas County Park Parking Lot 9139 Hegel Rd Goodrich, MI 48438
10:00 - 11:30 AM -
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 -
Aquatic Ecology
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 -
Bouncing Bubbles
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
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 -
Cancelled - Using AI to Chat About HPV with Adolescents
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cancelled: Stop the Reef Thief`!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chemistry of the Human Senses
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chromatography Butterflies
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
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 -
Communicating Science Across Cultures
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Create a Critter
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 -
DNA: The Small But Berry Important Molecule
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, North 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 -
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 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 -
Fingerprinting Using Chemistry
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 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 -
Homemade Physics
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Introduction to Robots and Programming
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3201
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 -
Life Without Water
At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Room 2202
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 -
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 -
Physician Associates: What Can They Do?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
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 -
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!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
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 -
Pleasant Peninsula
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Powering the Future: Exploring Advanced Battery Technologies for Sustainable Energy
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Protein Power: Learn How to Measure Life's Building Blocks
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Ramp and Roll
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Regenerative Medicine: Reprogramming Stem Cells to Cure Diseases
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Science and Zombie Molecules
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility, First Floor, East 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 -
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 -
STEM Career Options Card Game
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
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 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 Magical World of Microbes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
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 -
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 -
You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Fading in the Dark: The Silent Decline of Asian Migratory Birds
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM -
Studying the Human Vocal Tract in Real Time
At Wells Hall B-418
12:00 - 5:00 PM -
Edible Ice Cream Aquifers: What Can You Learn About Groundwater?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
12:15 - 12:45 PM -
Fantastic Nuclei and Where to Find Them
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
1:00 - 1:30 PM -
The Clapp Family Mastodon
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
1:45 - 2:15 PM -
Sleep Through the Ages
At STEM Teaching & Learning Facility Workshop Stage
2:30 - 3:00 PM -
Seeing Double? The MSU Twin Studies and the Twin Model
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Workshop Stage
3:15 - 3:45 PM
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Wednesday, April 9
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Astronomy on Tap with Special Musical Guest Normal Mode
At REO Town Clubhouse Second Floor Event Space 1314 S Washington Ave Lansing, MI 48910
7:00 - 10:00 PM
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Thursday, April 10
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Tour the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
At Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Main Lobby
1:15 - 2:15 PM -
A Virtual Tour of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
At Abrams Planetarium
1:30 - 2:30 PM -
Communication on Tap
At UrbanBeat 1213 Turner Rd Lansing, MI 48906
5:30 - 7:30 PM
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Friday, April 11
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Potter Park Zoo – A Wild Evening Exploring a Living Museum
At Potter Park Zoo 1301 S Pennsylvania Ave Lansing, MI 48912
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Springtime Frog Walk
At Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center - 9422 E. Herbison Road, Laingsburg, MI
Requires pre-registration8:00 - 9:30 PM -
John Collins of Underground Resistance: DJ Set
At 311 Abbot 311 Abbot Rd 6th floor East Lansing, MI 48823
Pre-register at https://113145.blackbaudhosting.com/113145/John-Collins-of-Underground-Resistance-DJ-Set
Requires pre-registration8:00 - 10:00 PM
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Saturday, April 12
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Experience Greenfest!
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit , MI 48207
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Exploring the Rachana Rajendra Bird Sanctuary
At Baker Woodlot Bogue Street Entrance East Lansing, MI 48823
12:00 - 1:30 PM -
Earth Bash
At MSU Surplus Store and Recycling Center
12:00 - 4:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum
At Kalamazoo Valley Museum 230 N Rose St Kalamazoo, MI 49007
5:00 - 8:00 PM -
Looking at Planets Near and Far
At Abrams Planetarium
Pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/msu-science-festival-statewide-astronomy-night-tickets-1273902048319?aff=oddtdtcreator
Requires pre-registration7:00 - 8:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at the MSU Observatory
At MSU Observatory
7:00 - 10:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at Stargate Observatory
At Stargate Observatory 20505 29 Mile Rd Ray, MI 48096
7:30 - 9:30 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at the James C. Veen Observatory
At James C. Veen Observatory 3308 Kissing Rock Ave SE Lowell Township, MI 49331
8:30 - 11:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at Wessling Observatory
At Stephen F. Wessling Observatory 6523 W Baseline Rd Fremont, MI 49412
8:30 - 11:55 PM
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Sunday, April 13
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Sunday Stroll: BioBlitz Edition
At Blue Gill Boat Launch Main Parking Lot 4045 E Coldwater Rd Flint, MI 48506
10:00 - 11:30 AM -
Experience Greenfest!
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit , MI 48207
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Monday, April 14
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Sound & Science: Inspiring Connections
At The Stray 4253 Division Ave S Suite A Grand Rapids, MI 49548
6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 16
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Science Crochet-Along
At Woven Art Yarn Shop 325 Grove St Suite B East Lansing, MI 48823
Pre-register at https://www.wovenartshop.com/collections/classes/products/science-crochet-along
Requires pre-registration6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Thursday, April 17
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Techno Futures: Detroit's Afrofuturist Groove
At MSU Communication Arts and Sciences Building Room 145
Pre-register at https://113145.blackbaudhosting.com/113145/Techno-Futures-Detroits-Afrofuturist-Groove-17Apr2025
Requires pre-registration6:00 - 7:00 PM -
Carl Craig DJ Set: Techno Futures: Detroit's Afrofuturist Groove
At 311 Abbot 311 Abbot Rd East Lansing, MI 48823
Pre-register at https://113145.blackbaudhosting.com/113145/Carl-Craig-DJ-Set-Techno-Futures-Detroits-Afrofuturist-Groove
Requires pre-registration8:00 - 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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Saturday, April 19
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Explore the Amazing World of Insects at the Bug House!
At Natural Science Building Room 147
1:00 - 3:00 PM -
Pedal Through Science!
At MSU Bikes Service Center
Pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pedal-through-science-tickets-1255935399589?aff=oddtdtcreator
Requires pre-registration3:30 - 5:30 PM
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Wednesday, April 23
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Climate Change Action Workshop
At Chittenden Hall Room 110
4:00 - 5:30 PM -
The Art of Science Communication
At Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Auditorium
6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Thursday, April 24
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Springtime Frog Walk
At Michigan Wildlife Conservancy - Bengel Wildlife Center 6380 Drumheller Rd Bath Twp, MI 48808
Requires pre-registration8:00 - 9:30 PM
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Friday, April 25
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Science on Screen, Humanity in Focus
At Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Auditorium
2:30 - 3:30 PM -
Campfire Science
At Woldumar Nature Center 5739 Old Lansing Rd Lansing, MI 48917
6:00 - 9:30 PM -
Where the Light Gets In Closing Reception and Workshop
At Northeast corner of Trowbridge and S. Harrison Roads
8:00 - 10:00 PM
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Saturday, April 26
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Ecology Extravaganza
At Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center 9422 E Herbison Rd. Laingsburg, MI 48848
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM -
Dear Earth: Literacy in Nature
At For-Mar Nature Preserve & Arboretum 2142 N Genesee Rd Burton, MI 48509
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM -
Butterflies in the Garden
At MSU Horticulture Gardens Indoor 4-H Children's Garden
12:00 - 4:00 PM -
The Science and Engineering of Rain Gardens
At MSU Horticulture Gardens Conservatory
12:00 - 4:00 PM -
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: How Writers See the Universe
At MSU Horticulture Gardens Conservatory
1:00 - 3:00 PM -
Astronomy Night at the Belle Isle Nature Center: Rescheduled for April 26
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207
7:00 - 10:00 PM
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Sunday, April 27
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Secrets of the Universe IMAX Screening
At Celebration Cinema Lansing & IMAX 200 E Edgewood Blvd Lansing, MI 48911
Pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of-the-universe-imax-screening-tickets-1254480718599?aff=oddtdtcreator
Requires pre-registration4:00 - 6:15 PM -
Secrets of the Universe IMAX Screening
At Celebration Cinema Lansing & IMAX 200 E Edgewood Blvd Lansing, MI 48911
Pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of-the-universe-imax-screening-tickets-1317597181639?aff=SCFE
Requires pre-registration6:30 - 8:45 PM
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