"Luminaries in science have lit the way, and now the torch is passed to a new generation of curious, inquisitive and wildly intelligent emerging young leaders."
Larry Bock
Serial Entrepreneur

"San Diego Mensa is proud to be a part of San Diego's first Science Festival, an event that celebrates our ability to use reason to make our lives bloom."
LaRae Bakerink
President
San Diego Mensa

"The team at the University of Cambridge Science Festival is delighted to be working with the San Diego Science Festival to increase the range of exciting and educational events at the San Diego Science Festival, and we look forward to further collaborating with you as we work on joint international aims to encourage young people to study science and technology further at school and university, and to engage with the public of all ages on issues of scientific interest and concern."
Nicola Buckley
Executive Director
Cambridge Science Festival (England)

"From backseat cries of "are we there yet?" to front stage decrees of "here's where we going!", a new generation of young scientific leaders are taking the torch to light the future."
Pam Fitch
Mother

"PowerfulLatinas.com is thrilled to be part of the first ever San Diego Science Festival. Science is such an integral part of our lives, and we need to encourage the understanding of, and appreciation for, the roles science plays in our everyday world. In particular, we are excited about the ability of the Festival to encourage more young people, including young people of color, to pursue interests in the sciences."
Aurelia Flores
Founder and Host, PowerfulLatinas.com

"This is a wonderful opportunity for young people and their parents to interact with scientists at UC San Diego and other research institutions throughout the county. They will see first hand that being a scientist is a stimulating and rewarding career."
Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor
University of California, San Diego

"We are experiencing a Golden Age of Scientific Discovery, and yet the scientific prominence and leadership of the United States is no longer assured. At a national level, support for science education and scientific research is in crisis. To reinvigorate interest in and excitement about science in the public at this critical time, we need a national as well as a grassroots effort. Since San Diego has one of strongest and most innovative scientific communities in the world, it is the perfect venue to the San Diego Science Festival."
Fred H. Gage, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Genetics
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

"The San Diego County Office of Education is grateful for the San Diego Science Festival being a catalyst for important K-12 education relationships among science communities at the local, national and international levels. It doesn’t get better than this!"
Nancy Giberson, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent
San Diego County Office of Education

"Here are big thinkers inspiring big thoughts in little people to do big things."
H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate

"The San Diego Science Festival will shine a bright light on the role of science in our culture. It will highlight the wonderful career opportunities available to young people and engage the broader community in celebrating science."
Patrice Legro
Executive Director
Marian Koshland Science Museum
U.S. National Academy of Sciences

"Expanding Your Horizons San Diego has been working hard to inspire the next generation of female scientists. We are proud to join the San Diego Science Festival to help spotlight the wonder of scientific discovery and the opportunity it creates for everyone."
Kelly Jenkins-Pultz
President
Expanding Your Horizons San Diego

"This celebration of science and technology can serve as inspiration and nourishment for our youth, while providing a venue for scientists at all levels to coalesce and reaffirm the fundamental truths of nature while searching the mysteries of nature, life and the cosmos. It well may be the Woodstock of this millennium!"
Steve Oesterle, M.D.
CTO
Medtronic

"There is a Natural Scientist hard wired in all of us. San Diego Science Festival will unlock our inner scientist and open up a world of discovery to our local student population. This is a once in a lifetime change to engage science in a way that is fun, fulfilling and will help prepare our children to find solutions to all the great challenges our society and planet currently face."
Steve Kay Ph.D.
Dean of Biological Sciences
U.C.S.D.

"We’re very supportive of every effort to raise the visibility of the life science community and to inform people in our region of what these biotech and medical device companies do. The San Diego Science Festival will be an excellent venue to present this technology cluster, the largest technology cluster in our region."
Joseph Panetta
President & CEO
BIOCOM

"Each generation must develop the new medicines for the generations that follow. Quality science education today is the critical prerequisite for the cures to come for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's, autism; and the list goes on . . . We have just begun the voyage, and we must stay the course which begins with scientific literacy and a passion to explore."
Bill Rastetter, Ph.D.
Founder
biogen Idec

"Both High Tech High and the San Diego Science Festival aim to engage kids' passion for learning through hands-on activities and interactions with professionals from the community. I am excited that HTH will be part of the Festival"
Larry Rosenstock
CEO
High Tech High

"The San Diego Science Festival will expose students to the possibilities for their participation in carriers based on scientific innovation including among others, identifying cures for disease, increasing food production, protecting our environment, improving communications, and exploring outer space."
Duane Roth
Executive Director
CONNECT

"High Tech High is based on the notion that kids have a natural curiosity and enthusiasm for discovery and invention. Bringing them together with scientists at the San Diego Science Festival, who have made careers out of such interests, seems like a great idea and one sure to produce lots of excitement."
Mara Sanders, Ph.D.
Director of Development and Community Engagement
High Tech High

"The San Diego Science Festival is a magnetic force, the K-12 science community is highly attracted to all the possibilities and ways to participate."
Nancy Taylor
Executive Director
San Diego Science Alliance

"The San Diego Science Festival is just the type of public/private partnership that is necessary to supplement the education of our youth and get them interested in careers in the sciences. We are excited to be working the Festival organizers."
Randy Ward
San Diego County Superintendent of Schools

"The San Diego Science Fair is THE opportunity to see for yourself, the incredible scope and breadth of modern science performed here that impacts, on a daily basis, every aspect of our lives."
David R. Webb, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research
Signal Pharmaceuticals, LLC
A wholly owned subsidiary of
CELGENE

"There couldn't be a more important time or more impressive group of people assembled to (galvanize and) inspire a new generation of scientists."
Josh Wolfe
Forbes Wolfe

"The need for growing a new generation of innovative scientists has never been greater as we compete in a global high technology economy This San Diego Science Festival provides a unique forum to excite the inner scientist in all students by engaging them in the fascinating, varied, and rewarding world of science and technology."
Dr. Lawrence Woolf
Principal Scientist
General Atomics

"Growing the next crop of scientists is critical to our future and global competitiveness. The resolve and design of the SD Science Festival is sure to make a huge difference."
Adriana Vela
Founder and Chair, NanoBioNexus