- Participate in interactive exhibits and demos of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEaM).
- Join hands-on workshops
- Listen to short science talks…and ask questions
- Watch short movies in a Discovery Dome (planetarium) or short clips in a 3D visualization lab
- Take a mini tour of the Klystron Gallery and Linac Coherent Light Source
- Get free hotdogs/burgers and drinks, giveaways, and a chance to win exciting prizes (drawing at 7:00 p.m.)
Community Day is presented by SLAC and KIPAC, with participation from various Stanford organizations.
Program
(subject to change without notice)
Participate in interactive exhibits and demos [SUSB and Kavli Buildings, Main Quad]
- Watch your hair rise as you walk through an electric field charged by Van de Graaff generators
- Shine a laser into flowing water and see it surf the water stream
- Learn how to make a Gatorade-powered battery
- See a wave visualized by fire streaming out of a tube
- Jump into the digital world and learn about physics
- Test buoyancy on different liquids
- Measure the width of your hair using laser
- Accelerate small ping pong balls through a clear tube at high speed
- See how molecules relax and polymers shrink with heat
- Find out how to blow up a marshmallow, make toilet paper fly, crush a soda can, and more using vacuum science techniques
- Visualize normally invisible heat gradients and fluid flows
- Learn how particles from space go through you with a cosmic ray detector
- Draw, color and stamp your way to an art-science mural
- Think like an archaeologist
- Create a straw bridge and test how much weight it can stand
- See scale models of the sun, planets and orbits
- Share your love and curiosity for science through poems or drawings
- Learn how a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors
- Take a selfie in our fun photo station with science-themed accessories
- Use UV light to transfer a pattern on a paper
- Check out a solar hydroponic garden: off-grid, sustainable and pesticide-free
- Look how X-rays can explore fascinating atomic and molecular sights through a hologram
- Learn about the science of light through a bubble-blowing activity
- View solar sunspots
- Explore a scale model of the sun, planets and orbits
- See planets, star clusters and galaxies with your own eyes through a telescope
- Meet a Zoox: Autonomous Testing Vehicle
Join hands-on workshops [SUSB]
- Build your own microscope
- Learn how a telescope works
- Make your own planispheres (star-finders)
Listen to short science talks…and ask questions [Panofsky Auditorium]
- Earth Rocks! A Tour of our Planet from the Inside Out by Arianna Gleason-Holbrook (5:30-6:00 p.m.)
- Meet the –Trons, the Most Powerful Family in the World by Diana Gamzina (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
- Why We Need Dark Matter by Risa Wechsler (6:30-7:00 p.m.)
- Studying the Big Bang from Antarctica by Ari Jozef Cukierman (7:30-8:00 p.m.)
- Building the World's Largest Digital Camera by Adam Snyder (8:00-8:30 p.m.)
Watch short movies in a Planetarium [SUSB Breezeway] (first-come, first-served)
- Every 30 minutes from 5:30-7:00 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. (20-person capacity per time slot)
Watch short clips in 3D [Visualization Lab, 2nd Floor Kavli Building] (first-come, first-served)
- Every 30 minutes from 5:30-7:00 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. (25-person capacity per time slot)
Take a mini facility tour (first-come, first-served; closed-toed shoes required)
- Klystron Gallery* (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m.)
- Linac Coherent Light Source* (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m.)
*30-person capacity per tour slot; meet in the Orientation Theater in SUSB - Accelerator Control Room** (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | 8:00 p.m.)
**20-person capacity per tour slot; meet in the Main Quad
