Join in a celebration of the San Diego River with hikes, bike rides, nature walks, education activities, open houses and more! More than 30 events let you explore all the San Diego River has to offer. Many events are designed specifically for families.
Alice is a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create animation for storytelling, interactive games, or videos. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
7th and 8th grade girls are invited to join BE WiSE for Science Overnights and explore their interests in science. Guests get to meet women scientists who can share their knowledge, passion and experiences in science and engineering careers.
California?s Adopt-A-Beach program gives people of all ages the opportunity to learn and participate in conserving coastal resources. ILACSD provides educational presentations to schools throughout San Diego. Last year we reached more than 30,000 students. Your pupils can be next!
Cost:
Free
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Entrepreneurs for Young Innovators brings together San Diego middle and high school students and local CEOs to stimulate students to study STEM. CEOs describe their companies, demonstrate their products and explain how STEM classes can prepare students for college and rewarding careers in the technology filed.
Begins:
03/09/2012
Ends:
05/19/2013
Cost:
Free
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San Diego County Office of Education/City of San Diego Department of Environmental Services
San Diego Environmental Services Department?s Envirotour program is a bus tour of the Miramar landfill designed to teach 5th-12th graders the importance of recycling and the size of the trash problem.
Begins:
01/01/2013
Ends:
06/28/2013
Cost:
Free
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Does your child like all things creepy and crawly? Do they ever wonder how creatures great and small survive and interact in the world? Then bring them to the EV Explorers Kids Club. Our amazing animal ambassadors take children on a new adventure each month as they learn through stories, games and hands-on time with animals.
San Diego Science Alliance, Exploring STEM Careers
Start an after school program for your students. San Diego Science Alliance after school engineering challenges include activities like Botball Robotics, SeaPerch San Diego, Kid Wind and IAROC.
Join the San Diego Natural History Museum every month September through June for Family Day. Each event celebrates a new exhibition or natural history theme. Activities include science experiments, scavenger hunts and take-home crafts and games. Surprise guests like Ms. Frizzle and museum scientists are known to stop by. Shows are free with museum admission and always free for members.
Let your imagination run free for The Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair. Find something you like, explore it and gain a greater understanding. Students can work on projects throughout the year and teachers can submit names for entry into the screening fairs January 2014. Projects meeting the fair?s criteria are invited to apply.
Begins:
03/01/2014
Ends:
03/01/2014
Cost:
Students must pay for own project materials; financial assistance may be available
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5th-8th grade students explore ways we can live sustainably through hands-on activities in The Green Learning Adventure. Topics include energy efficiency, vampire appliances, pedal power, renewable energy, absurd packaging and fresh and frozen foods.
Center for Research in Math and Science Education (CRMSE)
Join teachers from different public schools to discuss the complex social, economic and cultural issues educators face. Teachers share innovations and examples to improve STEM learning for students. A meet and greet, panel discussion and networking time are all included.
With an emphasis on creative projects, this course introduces the student to techniques for recording, manipulating, and synthesizing sound. Complete your own compositions and design your own musical instruments using software!
The JCS San Diego Middle School Academy of Art and Science combines an innovative and supportive staff with small class sizes to provide students a safe place to thrive. STEAM programs focus on science, technology, engineering, art and math. Join us to learn how our students achieve academic excellence, gain independent and critical thinking skills and prepare for the 21st century.
Composer and technologist, Dr. Richard Snow leads students into the world of creative programming and interactive experiences with music and animation. Students are introduced to tools for creating interactive audio-visual art. Complete your own audio-visual compositions, and design your own musical instruments using software!
The Life Sciences Summer Institute offers research internships for high school students interested in careers in life sciences. Students participate in a one week pre-internship, followed by a seven week paid full-time internship.
Begins:
06/17/2013
Ends:
09/08/2013
Cost:
Free
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Has your child ever met an owl? Searched for crabs? Fed a sea turtle? Then get them ready to explore the natural world through interactive outdoor exploration, animal encounters, games, arts and crafts and career exploration. Day Camps are offered year-round during school breaks.
Discover the excitement of Mad Science this summer at your local camp, community center or YMCA! Eight unique camps include bridge design, robot creation, model rockets and much more. Each camp is offered multiple times throughout the summer at various locations.
K-12 students can experience educational presentations and community groups sponsored by the National Marine Mammal Foundation. Topics include marine mammal biology and training, veterinary medicine, marine mammal research and bioacoustics. Each 30-60 minute program is age appropriate.
Begins:
08/01/2013
Ends:
08/01/2014
Cost:
Free
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Math for America San Diego is a nonprofit consortium of UC San Diego, SDSU and CSUSM and five area school districts dedicated to improving math and learning in San Diego secondary schools.
What is energy efficiency and sustainability? Join the Mathematic Engineering Science Achievement Green Academy and find out. This ?train the trainer? academy helps educators understand the problem and teach solutions to their students.
Based on work from the Graffiti Research Lab in New York, the Mobile Graffiti Lab is an open source project that combines hardware and software to facilitate the creation of interactive art projects, teach programming, as well as dialogue within our community. Students will have the chance to learn programming basics, explore projection mapping, and interface with a Kinect Cam to create an interactive art show.
Wind up your mental motor and get ready to cruise some brain waves with Ms. Frizzle and the San Diego Natural History Museum?s Wacky Science Sundays. These performances explore the wild and wacky world of mysterious creatures, fascinating habitats and phenomenal science. Shows are free with museum admission and always free for members.
The San Diego Natural History Museum?s Nature and Me Storytime takes budding naturalists on an imaginative journey through dynamic readings and visits to exhibits. Readings are free with museum admission and always free for members.
OceanSTEM is the Maritime Alliance?s initiative to promote ?Blue? jobs by educating and inspiring tomorrow?s Blue Tech workforce today. It all culminates in OceanSTEM Fest with more than a dozen organizations from the region in attendance. Research vessels from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be open for tours.
Project SWELL is a K-6, school-based, science curriculum teaching children the importance of San Diego?s waterways. Project SWELL helps teachers empower students to improve the condition of San Diego?s waterways and understand the impacts humans and our pollution have.
Join the San Dieguito River Park Exploration Station and learn about the San Dieguito river and lagoon, their 70 miles of trails and explore the wild lands. Workshops include fun wildlife activities, give aways, trail maps, discussions with rangers and scientists and much more.
Themes change every month for this girls only camp. Each Saturday is filled with challenges, activities and interaction with science role models. Throughout the year, girls can explore numerous fields such as biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more.
Second Saturday of each month.
Cost:
Members: $12 per session; Non-Members: $14 per session
Scripps Oceanography School Programs use inquiry-based interactive learning to provide ocean science education and opportunities to interpret research and promote conservation using current Scripps Oceanography research.
The San Diego Natural History Museum offers a range of school programs for pre-K through 8th grade based on natural history themes and California state standards. Programs like ?Read a Rock?, ?Door to the Desert? and ?Autumn Harvest? are interactive lessons lead by museum docents and professional educators your students are sure to enjoy.
Ocean Discovery Institute offers programs for classrooms, after-school programs, home schools, church groups, scout groups or any community-based organization. Each program stands alone or can be included in a larger unit with a central focus. Lessons include a lead instructor and all materials necessary for activities.
Begins:
01/01/2013
Ends:
01/04/2014
Cost:
$10/hr. per student
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The Learning Choice Academy hosts a Science Field Day open to the community. Learning Choice Academy also has a unique engineering program for 7th-12th graders and its Project Lead The Way for TLC?s bi-weekly students. Attend our open house to learn more about registration.
Take science out of the classroom and to the ballpark. This unique event includes activities like ?Fire and Ice? presented by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center where students learn about the different states of matter, EcoVivarium?, a natural science show featuring all kinds of snakes and creepy crawlies and a General Atomics show about physics. Don?t be surprised if a Padres player stops by for a visit.
Begins:
08/05/2013
Ends:
08/05/2013
Cost:
Tickets start at just $8
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Sequenom is a life sciences company committed to improving healthcare through revolutionary genetic analysis solutions. Sequenom offers noninvasive laboratory-developed tests which analyze the relative amount of 21, 18, 13 and Y chromosomes and test for AMD and cystic fibrosis mutations. Research use only tests for cancer mutations are also offered via mass spectrometry. \n\nVisit our both to learn about the exiting world of BIOTECHNOLOGY and GENETICS from hands on experiments and activities!
Each month the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center?s astronomer presents a new planetarium show. Join us and journey through the cosmos on the first Wednesday of each month.
Cost:
Members: $10 per session - Non-members: $12 per session
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center?s ?Great Balls of Fire? exhibit is the subject of this full day camp for first through fourth graders. It?s a fun, educational, hands-on look at comets, meteors and asteroids. Participants can sign up for a day, or the full week.
San Diego county?s comprehensive listing of STEM events, workshops, internships and more. Information is provided for teachers, students, parents and community collaborators to get involved with STEM.
Join us for a summer professional development opportunity for 4th-12th grade teachers. The event includes workshops, speakers and field trips all revolving around science, technology, engineering and math.
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center offers half-day summer camps every week for kids pre-K through grade 8. Camps incorporate topics from the Fleet?s exhibit galleries in a fun, hands-on, educational environment. Hurry! Camps sell out quick!
Begins:
06/24/2013
Ends:
08/23/2013
Cost:
Members: $110 per week - Non-members: $125 per week
Summer Camp ATtheNAT is where the fun is! These weekly half-day camps for pre-K through 5th grade include museum exploration, garden hikes, animal visits and encounters with real scientists. Sign up early. Camps sell out quick!
Summer Adventures Learning Camp challenges campers 4-15 to investigate marine habitats, create ocean art projects, learn about careers in oceanography and combine the science and sport of surfing and snorkeling. From the classroom to the seashore, it?s hands on fun and learning while making new friends and new memories.
San Diego County Office of Education/ City of San Diego Department of Environmental Services
San Diego?s Environmental Services Department brings high-energy skits, activities and a high-spirited recycle relay race to students to teach them the importance of recycling. Students can learn and get excited about recycling in assembly groups or classroom groups.
Begins:
01/15/2013
Ends:
06/28/2013
Cost:
Free
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Girls can learn computer skills, graphics applications and how to stay safe online while exploring related technology and careers in a hands-on atmosphere. Sessions may also be set aside to help girls earn badges or for side trips. Lessons are age appropriate and participants receive a snack and surprise event item.
The San Diego Air and Space Museum hosts a variety of fun, hands-on, family-friendly activities year-round, including Family Science Day, Space Day, The Paper Airplane Festival and our always popular summer camps. Visit us and keep the festival fun going!
Get excited about STEM with one of San Diego?s own FIRST robotics teams. Students move through five 45-minute activities including Blast off Rockets, Fling it, Marble Run, Pasta Bridge and Sink or Float while learning about science, engineering, technology and math. While kids are attending activities, parents are welcome to learn about how to support kids interest in science and engineering.
Begins:
03/16/2013
Ends:
03/16/2013
Cost:
Free
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Be a part of the first Walk for Salk and celebrate more than five decades of life-changing discoveries. It?s also Salk?s first ever open house featuring a health and wellness festival, meet and greets with Salk scientists and the opportunity for an exclusive, behind the scenes look at the world-renown institute?s campus and labs.
The Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center is located in Imperial Beach, the most southwestern city in the United States. The Visitor Center has information and displays that pique the interest of adults and children alike. Find out how plants in the estuary get rid of the salt they take in and which plant is endangered. Discover the birds that are threatened and endangered.
The UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences offers an innovative and flexible curriculum leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Classes are taught by a stellar health sciences faculty in a program closely associated with the outstanding clinical, research and academic programs in the School of Medicine.
Volunteers 15 and over are welcome to join our Water Quality Monitoring program. We train all new volunteers on odd months at our lab and then send them out into the field to collect samples. Data is used to help monitor and track the health of our watersheds.\n\nNew volunteers should RSVP with the Community Engagement Coordinator to reserve their spot at the next available training.
Begins:
01/26/2013
Ends:
12/14/2013
Cost:
Free
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Young Scientists creates preschool learning through exploration and excitement. Participants enroll for a four-week session with new themes every session.
Cost:
Members: $75 per session - Non-members: $85 per session
ZU2U turns students into animal ambassadors through presentations and training on their selected animal. Once they?re experts, students make presentations at SUHSD middle schools and at the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering.
Begins:
07/01/2013
Ends:
07/01/2013
Cost:
Free
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