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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.

  • 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!

    • Get Outside for a BioBlitz!
      • Choose Your Own Campus Adventure
      • Earth & Environment
      Ongoing throughout April
  • Saturday, April 11

    • All Events

      • A Kid's-Eye View of the Microscopic World

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • Early Childhood Zone
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • AI School: An Introduction to Machine Learning

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Talks & Demonstrations
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Bouncing Bubbles

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Building Station

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • C. Elegans: A Tiny Worm with a Big Impact

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Cats Are Taking Over the World! How Can We Help

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Chemistry of the Human Senses

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Chromatography Butterflies

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Create a Critter

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Crop Defenders

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Digging Up the Past: MSU Campus Archaeology Program

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • DNA: The Microscopic, But Berry Important Molecule

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Experience Greenfest!

        At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207

        • Talks & Demonstrations
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Explore Medical Laboratory Science!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Explore the Science of Light

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Fish Filter Frenzy

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Food Science, Human Nutrition, and Your Health

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Outdoors, West Entrance

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • From Meals to Molecules: Solving Mysteries with Stable Isotopes

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Grow Your Botanical Knowledge

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Heredity Mix and Match

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3201

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Homemade Physics

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • How Do Watersheds Work and Why Are Wetlands Important?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Inside the Green World: Peek at Cells and Watch Flowers Drink!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Life Beneath the Naked Eye

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Marshmallow Structures

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • MI Diaries: Tell Your Story for Linguistic Analysis

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • MI Water Source! Enviroscape Education Demonstration

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Oozing Oobleck: Fun With Biological Materials

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Phantastic Physics! Interactive Science Demos

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Play Bingo to Learn About Lab Safety

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Powering the Future: Understanding Batteries Through Hands-On Electrochemistry

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Protein Power: Learn How to Measure Life's Building Blocks

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Radioactive!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • FRIB
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Ramp and Roll

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Reptiles Alive!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2101

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Science and Zombie Molecules

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Science After Dark
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Seeing the Trees for the Forest and the Forest for the Trees

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Sensory Bins

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Superheroes of Science!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Texture Wall

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The Great Seed Showdown: Monocots vs. Dicots!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The 'Hidden Water' We Use Every Day

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The Magical World of Microbes

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The PA Detective

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The Quantum Zone: Lasers, Liquid Nitrogen, and Levitation!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Unlock the Wonders of Human Physiology

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Watershed in Action: Learn Practical Ways to Reduce Pollution and Protect Our Water

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • What’s Inside Your Cell Phone?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Zhao Lab: Building a Cooler and Greener Future with Sustainable Materials

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Sunday, April 12

    • All Events

      • A Smashing Time with Nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Bouncing Bubbles

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Building Station

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Cats Are Taking Over the World! How Can We Help

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Chemistry of the Human Senses

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Chromatography Butterflies

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Create a Critter

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Crop Defenders

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • DNA: The Microscopic, But Berry Important Molecule

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Experience Greenfest!

        At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207

        • Talks & Demonstrations
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Fish Filter Frenzy

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Grow Your Botanical Knowledge

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Homemade Physics

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • How Do Watersheds Work and Why Are Wetlands Important?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Inside the Green World: Peek at Cells and Watch Flowers Drink!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Magic of Vision

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Marshmallow Structures

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Phantastic Physics! Interactive Science Demos

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Protein Power: Learn How to Measure Life's Building Blocks

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Ramp and Roll

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Science and Zombie Molecules

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Science After Dark
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Seeing the Trees for the Forest and the Forest for the Trees

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Sensory Bins

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Superheroes of Science!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Texture Wall

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130

        • Early Childhood Zone
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The Great Seed Showdown: Monocots vs. Dicots!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The 'Hidden Water' We Use Every Day

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The PA Detective

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • The Quantum Zone: Lasers, Liquid Nitrogen, and Levitation!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Unlock the Wonders of Human Physiology

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Watershed in Action: Learn Practical Ways to Reduce Pollution and Protect Our Water

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • What’s Inside Your Cell Phone?

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        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

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Zhao Lab: Building a Cooler and Greener Future with Sustainable Materials

        At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing

        • STEAM Expo Days
        11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Saturday, April 25

    • All Events

      • Statewide Astronomy Night at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum

        At Kalamazoo Valley Museum 230 N Rose St Kalamazoo, MI 49007

        • Statewide Astronomy Night
        6:00 - 8:00 PM
      • Statewide Astronomy Night at the Belle Isle Nature Center

        At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Drive Detroit, MI 48207

        • Statewide Astronomy Night
        7:00 - 10:00 PM
  • Thursday, April 30

    • All Events

      • Sound and Science Featuring Jordan Hamilton

        At The Robin Theatre 1105 S Washington Ave Lansing, MI 48910

        • Science After Dark
        7:00 - 9:00 PM

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