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Ask an Astronomer
Ask Astro Profs. Alice Shapley and Matt Malkan ANYTHING about Astronomy. And pick up your free cool Astro stuff!
Space Weather
UCLA's student satellite project - meet the team, hold a CubeSat, and learn about how and why we study space weather!
AMEBA - Exploring Microbes to Megafauna
Welcome to Exploring Microbes to Megafauna! Stop by to see and experience the different sizes of life our world has to offer. At this booth, expect to see real animal and plant specimens, both big and small. We will also be extracting DNA from fresh strawberries.
Extract DNA with gBSA!
Uncover the marvels of DNA! Join us for a hands-on exploration of the world of strawberry DNA. Discover the genetic make-up that tells all living things how to become what they are. Become a scientist and extract your very own strawberry DNA to take home!
Exploring Ecology & Evolution
Hands-on activities to learn about why plants and animals look the way they do!
SACNAS: Make Your Own Lava Lamp
Join SACNAS at UCLA and explore the magic of chemistry by making your own colorful lava lamp! Create your own DIY masterpiece to take home.
Arts & Crafts with Tau Beta Pi
Come visit our booth if you want to watch bottle rockets fly + build your own film canister launcher!
Seeing the Unseen: Explaining Dark Matter
Dark matter and Dark Energy are mysterious areas of physics that confuses physicists and the public alike. This is not a good sign since they supposedly compose over 95% of our universe. There are observed phenomena in the universe that can’t be explained without these invisible, unseen substances. Yet, hiding behind a veil, dark matter and dark energy keeps the structures and expansion of the universe in order. Come to our booth and we can peer through the veil together.
ChromoChem: Colorful Chemistry
We will be demonstrating how cool color chemistry can be and explaining the scientific concepts behind what we see.
Illuminating the World of Molecules
Can we wave the world? This physical chemistry booth will help you find your own answers!
Archealogical Conservation: Piecing Together Mysteries
The UCLA / Getty Conservation Program educates and trains students in the highest standard of conservation practice. Our programs prepare graduates for careers in the preservation of archaeological and cultural materials.
Chem Kids
This booth will feature connections between chemistry and the world around us. Visitors will learn about the awesomeness of organic chemistry, participate in interactive activities, and enjoy a few souvenirs. This booth is brought to you by the Garg Lab at UCLA (https://garg.chem.ucla.edu/) who created and teach the UCLA “Chem Kids” summer camp.
Alpha Chi Sigma – Chemistry Corner
Alpha Chi Sigma’s Chemistry Corner is a space of fun and curiosity! Students will be able to observe and experience engaging chemistry experiments while learning in the process.
Make Your Own Earthquake
Come learn about how earthquakes occur in earthquake country!
Rocks of Southern California
Learn about the geology under our feet in southern California! What rocks are here, where are they found, and how did they form?
Dermatological
We will be making UV bracelets that can remind the participant to wear sunscreen, and we will also be doing a sunscreen demonstration in which participants can put sunscreen on their hands, place them on blue construction paper, and watch the sunscreen protect the portions of the paper that have their handprints.
Society of Gender Equity of Geosciences
The mission of the Society of Gender Equity in Geosciences is to promote gender equity in the geophysical sciences through outreach, community building, institutional reform, and career development.
SMACS – Instant Snow
Come do chemistry with us!
Tin Foil Boat Challenge
Make boats out of foil and see how much weight they can hold before sinking! Learn about the principles of buoyancy and density. Compare the different designs for cargo boats and speed boats and the reasons for each.
Math: You Can Count On It!
Have you ever seen a shape with one side? Have you ever tried to hang a picture badly? Try out math puzzles, games, and activities for all ages.
SpinLab!
To better understand ocean and atmospheric dynamics, we will be playing with spinning tanks of fluid, food coloring and ice cubes.
ASME at UCLA
We are a club that creates cool underwater and ground robots.
UCLA Department of Statistics & Data Science
Estimation of the number of trials needed to exit a labyrinth.
Squishy and Sticky Stuff with the Srivastava Lab
Come learn about soft materials, including polymers, gels, and foams, with Srivastava Lab members!
SWE – Los Angeles Professionals Section
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), is a non-profit educational, service organization dedicated to supporting women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education.
Society of Women Engineers
SWE's Outreach Committee goal is to introduce STEM to students within the Los Angeles area through various engineering outreach events. At EYU, students will be designing their own paper sails that will move their boats with the help of wind power!
Gravity Table
Explore how black holes, stars, and planets interact through gravity!
Rocket Project at UCLA
Rocket Project is a club for students to learn everything about rockets so they can build one from scratch and launch it at the end of the school year.
Venus - World of Mystery
What makes Venus so hard to understand? Come and find out at our booth! What is convection and why is it important for Venus? Come and investigate with our fun water and food dye convection experiment!
Let's Find Asteroids Before They Find Us!
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission will find asteroids that may possibly hit Earth in the next century.
All About Brain Attacks
Come visit Stroke Force to learn all about how to recognize and prevent strokes. Spin the wheel for a prize too!
Twist & Treat Candy Bones
Learn about spinal anatomy and mobility from INI @ UCLA members who are passionate about innovative neuroscience research!
Ping-Pong Particle Accelerator
Learn physics of particle accelerators!
Psychology in Action
Psychology in Action is a graduate student organization that aims to make psychological research more accessible to diverse audiences through innovative outreach and educational initiatives. Visit our booth for some fun activities about memory, reading, and willpower to get a sweet treat!
InterAxon at UCLA
InterAxon will provide demonstrations and informative presentations on topics in Neuroscience!
Exploring the Nano World!
Come learn about the ways that invisible science makes visible fun!
The Science of Staying Well: How the Immune System Works
Join us in learning about the immune system and how bacteria behave! Fight off bacteria and viruses in our custom interactive video game! Discover how microbes evolve with our original card game! Prizes also included!
EFMP Stratigraphy in a Jar!
Have you ever noticed layering in rocks or mountains? If so, you may have been looking at sedimentary rocks. The layering is known as stratigraphy and in our booth, you will be able to create your own stratigraphy in a jar!
Our Magnetic Sun
At this booth, we will show many fun facts about the Sun, which is dominated by its magnetic field and affects the Earth significantly.
Diviner: The Moon in Infrared
Come learn how scientists at UCLA use a spacecraft to study the temperature of the Moon!
Detection of Exoplanets
Come see a demonstration of how to directly image exoplanets!
Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
How do we "see" something that's invisible?
Our Exciting Sun
LA Astronomical Society
Photon Booth
Illuminating the World of Molecules
The Colors of Life
Chemical Reactions
11770 Curiosity: FTC Robotics
Come see a demo of our robots from past seasons as well as a hands on opportunity for students to drive and test some of our robots!
The Princess Program STEM
We will make binary friendship bracelets using pipecleaners and beads. Two colors of beads will represent 0’s and 1’s.
CBE GSC
The Chemical Engineering Grad Student Committee welcomes you to learn about non newtonian fluids with oobleck! Is it a liquid, is it a solid? Come pick it up to see!
Machines in Action
Have you ever wondered how cars work, how bullet trains travel so fast, or how is it that you can ride a bike without falling off? Come and join the UCLA Science Lab Teaching Club to explore the amazing world of mechanics through our interactive demonstrations! We will teach you about how motors work, how energy is transferred in machines, and how smart engineering designs can focus on efficiency and sustainability for a greener future!
Circuit Circus
Explore electricity with Women+ in the Physical Sciences! Learn about circuits by making a piano out of bananas, a clock powered by a lemon, and even becoming part of a human circuit!
Flatland Wonders
Come learn about research on 2D materials!
Cell Biology with CityLab
Explore the various organelles of human cells under a microscope
Protein Evolution
See how proteins evolve, change and acquire new function!
Exploring Microscopy
Zoom in on the hidden worlds all around us by learning about microscopes! Explore what microscopes are used for, how they work, and see for yourself with a fun game guessing the identity of magnified items.
Science Policy Group
We will have an interactive game for kids to play, an interactive board where kids can walk through the steps of science policy, and an information board on how science policy affects their daily lives.
Climate Justice Collective: Scholars For Change
The Climate Justice Collective was founded in 2023 by a group of graduate students at UCLA. We recognize our work must center climate justice and equity to address the climate crisis. We wanted to create a space where we could expand upon this knowledge and empower each other to take climate action in our work and lives.
XEP - Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Come experiment with DIY Ocean Layers, Floating, Tornado in the Bottle with us!
Exploring Earth's Surface
This sandbox demonstration will give participants a real-time view of the erosional and fluvial processes that form rivers, meanders, deltas, and other such geomorphological phenomena.
UCLA Exoplanets
“Are we alone in the Universe?” and “How did we get here?”, those are two of the most fundamental questions that we strive to answer within the UCLA Exoplanet Group. To this end, we explore planets beyond our own solar system, using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, cutting-edge theoretical models, and advanced computer simulations. We investigate the types of planets that exist in the universe, how they formed and evolved over time, what complex physical and chemical process drive these intriguing new worlds, and finally how all of this compares to the planets in our own solar system. In that endeavor, our group particularly benefits from the active exchange of ideas among the many internationally leading experts at UCLA who cover virtually all relevant subfields of (exo)planetary science. This ranges from astronomical observations of exoplanets, over advanced simulations of planet formation and evolution, all the way to the modeling of the complex physical, chemical, and quantum-mechanical processes taking place in their atmospheres and interiors. UCLA’s ongoing success in this area is enabled by a long legacy of world-class planetary science dating back to the earliest NASA missions combined with the many strategic top faculty hires over the past decade.
Impacts and Craters
Craters are one of the most common feature between the solid bodies in our solar system. Craters are made on the surface of planets, natural satellites and asteroids by the asteroid impacts. Come to our booth to learn more.
Experience the Forces of Nature
Listen to the solar wind, ride the rumbles of the world's most active volcano, and watch real-time data streams dance on cymatic displays. The HEARTS project makes the hidden forces of Earth and space experiential—connecting you through sound, vibration, and visualization to invisible natural phenomena that shape our world.
Meteorite Gallery
Come check out meteorites from space!
Meteorite Mined for Metal
Come learn about the controversial El Ali / Ceel Cali / Shiid Birood meteorite!
SPACE-4-Earth!
How do space technologies directly benefit humanity? Come and learn about new materials, techniques and health diagnostics.
Jung Group Startups
UCLA MAG Lab: Advancing Space Science Since 1965
Learn about the history and latest discoveries made by instruments designed and built by the UCLA MAG Lab, including the discovery of the subsurface ocean inside Europa with the Galileo magnetic field measurements and characterization of this ocean with the upcoming Europa Clipper magnetic field measurements.
