San Diego Science Festival 2009 - The Science of You! full schedule at sdsf09.sched.org

February 28 • Saturday


A 8:00am – 8:00pm Ongoing Science Festival Exhibits Various libraries througout town
F 8:30am – 3:15pm Expanding Your Horizons Conference University of San Diego, Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice

March 1 • Sunday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Cell Culture Art Exhibit - in collaboration with BIOCOM Various San Diego Public Library Branches - see description
A 8:00am – 8:00pm Journeyman: the Birth of an Early Videogame UCSD Science & Engineering Library (East wing of Geisel Library Building)
P 8:00am – 8:00pm Buy One Get One Free Coupon from SEA LIFE Aquarium at LEGOLAND® California Resort SEA LIFE Aquarium at LEGOLAND® California Resort

March 2 • Monday

B 12:30pm – 1:30pm Afternoon Scholars Lecture Series: Music Therapy Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
B 6:30pm – 8:00pm The Chemistry of Love La Jolla Public Library

March 3 • Tuesday

D 10:00am – 11:00am Dumbledore's Transfiguration Class for Master Wizards
B 10:30am – 11:30am Infection Detectors: White Blood Cells
F 11:30am – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Dr. Kurt Wuthrich

March 4 • Wednesday

A 2:00pm – 3:30pm The Science of Hidden Prejudices Mesa College, Room H117
P 4:00pm – 6:00pm The Greenovation Forum: New Sources of Water UC San Diego campus, Faculty Club, Atkinson Pavillion
F 5:00pm – 6:00pm Powerful Latinas Interview Series Online-Teleconference
F 5:30pm – 7:00pm Exploring Ethics: Our Robots, Our Selves Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
D 6:30pm – 8:00pm Dumbledore's Transfiguration Class: Scintillating Science and Magic from Harry Potter San Diego Public Library: College-Rolando Branch

March 5 • Thursday

P 10:30am – 11:30am Creation by Evolution
P 4:00pm – 5:30pm Film Screening and Discussion: Future Conditional Mesa College, Room G101

March 6 • Friday

F 9:00am – 11:30am Tech Trends - presented by San Diego Science Festival and Microsoft High Tech High International
P 9:00am – 4:30pm Become a Scientist for a Day! Cabrillo National Monument

March 7 • Saturday

P 9:00am – 11:00am 2009 Walk the Watershed, Chollas Creek Millenial Tech Middle School
P 9:00am – 4:30pm Become a Scientist for a Day! Cabrillo National Monument
P 9:00am – 12:00pm Estuary Explorers Tijuana Estuary
D 10:00am – 12:00pm The Mummy Mystery: How Science Unwraps the Past Museum of Man
B 1:00pm – 4:00pm Biosciences Day at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

March 8 • Sunday

P 9:00am – 4:30pm Become a Scientist for a Day! Cabrillo National Monument
A 9:30am – 8:00pm NanoArt San Diego Public Library - Mission Valley Branch

March 9 • Monday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Ongoing Science Festival Exhibits Various libraries througout town
P 4:00pm – 6:00pm Endangered! Beckman Center for Conservation Research
B 6:30pm – 8:00pm The Science of Running a Marathon San Diego Public Library: Scripps Ranch Branch
P 6:30pm – 8:00pm Perspectives on Ocean Science: Life in the Extreme: The Rock Bottom of Antarctica's Food Chain Birch Aquarium

March 10 • Tuesday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Picturing the Process: Exploring the Art and Science of Photography The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA)
A 10:00am – 10:30am All About Color Paradise Hills Branch Library

March 11 • Wednesday

B 8:30am – 2:30pm March of Dimes Salk Symposium Salk Institute
F 8:30am – 3:00pm San Diego Science Alliance High Tech Fair
F 5:00pm – 4:00pm Powerful Latinas Interview Series Online-Teleconference
A 6:00pm – 7:00pm The Evolution of Music Neurosciences Institute
B 6:30pm – 8:00pm The Science of Exercise and Weight Loss San Diego Public Library: Central Library - Downtown
D 6:30pm – 7:30pm Create a Critter Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library

March 12 • Thursday

P 3:30pm – 4:30pm What's the Danger in Being Endangered? Tijuana Estuary
F 6:30pm – 8:00pm The American Nerd San Diego Public Library - Pacific Beach branch

March 13 • Friday

B 4:00pm – 5:00pm What's Mitochondrial Got to Do with It? Mesa College, Room G101

March 14 • Saturday

D 8:00am – 1:00pm San Diego Math Field Day Cuyamaca College
D 9:00am – 12:00pm T Minus 10 Seconds to Launch ... All Systems Go! Fiesta Island, OTL Field
D 10:00am – 6:00pm Botball Robotics Tournament University of San Diego, Sports and Activity Center
P 12:00pm – 2:00pm Saturday Science Club for Girls: Forces of Nature Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
D 1:00pm – 1:45pm Science Saturday! Escondido Children's Museum

March 16 • Monday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Ongoing Science Festival Exhibits Various libraries througout town
1:00pm – 2:00pm Social Psychology Lecture: Report Card on Bullying San Diego Mesa College, Room H-117-H118
A 7:00pm – 8:30pm Contagious! Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
F 7:30pm – 10:00pm Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Warwick's Bookstore, La Jolla

March 17 • Tuesday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Picturing the Process: Exploring the Art and Science of Photography The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA)
P 9:00am – 6:00pm San Diego Center for Molecular Agriculture 2009 Symposium: Water: plants, agriculture and society Salk Institute, Fredric de Hoffman Auditorium
B 10:00am – 10:40am The Nutrition Train Paradise Hills Branch Library
P 3:30pm – 5:30pm Marsh Madness Tijuana Estuary
F 6:30pm – 8:00pm Nerd, Nerd Go Away San Diego Public Library: Rancho Penasquitos Branch

March 18 • Wednesday

F 5:00pm – 6:00pm Powerful Latinas Interview Series Online-Teleconference
B 5:30pm – 8:30pm The Science of Wine Senomyx
B 6:30pm – 7:30pm Afoot and Afield: San Diego County Clairemont Branch Library

March 19 • Thursday

F 9:30am – 11:00am Kyoto Laureate Symposium SDSU
P 3:30pm – 4:30pm Pollution Solutions Tijuana Estuary
B 6:30pm – 8:30pm The Science of Beer RockBottom Restaurant & Brewery

March 20 • Friday

A 1:00pm – 5:00pm Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics Salk Institute for Biological Studies DeHoffman Auditorium
D 7:00pm – 10:00pm Grossmont College Science Festival Grossmont College

March 21 • Saturday

B 9:00am – 11:00am Teacher Workshop: More Fun With Gene Santa Fe Christian Schools (Science building, Room S-001 - the building is located next to the Student Activity Center)
P 9:00am – 5:00pm Quail Botanical Gardens' Annual Herb Festival Quail Botanical Gardens
D 10:00am – 4:00pm Grossmont College Science Festival Grossmont College
P 10:00am – 4:00pm Celebrate World Water Day Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation Discovery Center
P 11:00am – 3:00pm Ocean Family Fun Birch Aquarium
D 12:00pm – 4:00pm SDSU College of Sciences Science Sampler San Diego State University
F 12:00pm – 2:00pm Movie Showing: 'WALL-E' Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library
D 1:00pm – 1:45pm Bird House Design Contest and Pine Cone Bird Feeder! Escondido Children's Museum

March 22 • Sunday

P 9:00am – 5:00pm Quail Botanical Gardens' Annual Herb Festival Quail Botanical Gardens
A 3:00pm – 4:30pm Galileo 1610 San Diego Public Library - Valencia Park-Malcolm X Branch Library & Performing Arts Center

March 23 • Monday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Ongoing Science Festival Exhibits Various libraries througout town

March 24 • Tuesday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Picturing the Process: Exploring the Art and Science of Photography The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA)
D 10:00am – 11:00am All About Insects Paradise Hills Branch Library
F 2:00pm – 3:30pm Chemistry Career Fair: Chemistry, Charisma and Careers Mesa College, Room I-117
B 7:00pm – 8:30pm The Science of Chocolate KPBS

March 25 • Wednesday

A 4:00pm – 5:30pm Teacher Workshop: The Art of Science California Center for the Arts, Escondido
F 5:00pm – 8:00pm CAREER NIGHT: Your Future in Science, Technology & Business UC San Diego Extension - Sorrento Mesa Center
F 5:00pm – 6:00pm Powerful Latinas Interview Series Online-Teleconference
F 6:00pm – 9:00pm imagine-it! San Diego EcoCenter for Alternative Fuel Education
P 6:30pm – 8:00pm SeaWorld San Diego's Family Learning Night SeaWorld San Diego Nautilus Pavillion
F 7:00pm – 7:45pm Young Adult Literature Book Club: GemX Rancho Penasquitos Branch Library

March 26 • Thursday

F 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Dr. Kary Banks Mullis
P 3:30pm – 4:30pm Oh Halibut! Tijuana Estuary
P 6:00pm – 8:45pm The Kelp Forest Ecosystem: Nature's Apartment Complex! Aquatic Adventures

March 27 • Friday

F 11:30am – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Dr. Mario Molina
F 6:00pm – 9:00pm ARCS Foundation 2009 Scientist of the Year Dinner Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa

March 28 • Saturday

D 8:00am – 12:00pm T Minus 10 Seconds to Launch ... All Systems Go! Fiesta Island, OTL Field
D 9:00am – 12:00pm Science for ages 9 to 99 San Diego Miramar College
H 9:00am – 12:00pm Where Science Takes Flight! Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
P 10:00am – 4:30pm Cabrillo National Monument Science Day Cabrillo National Monument
P 1:00pm – 3:00pm Flower Power - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED The Flower Fields
F 6:00pm – 8:00pm The Politics of Science San Diego Public Library - College-Rolando Branch
P 10:30pm – 12:30am The Grunions Are Running Beach - exact location will only be shared with those who make a reservation.

March 29 • Sunday

P 12:00pm – 3:30pm River Bugs are Cool! 5505 Friars Road San Diego, CA 92110

March 30 • Monday

A 8:00am – 8:00pm Ongoing Science Festival Exhibits Various libraries througout town
D 10:30am – 12:00pm Why do Woodpeckers not get Headaches?
F 5:30pm – 7:00pm Your Planet Needs You Alliant International University Campus - Lower Level of the Walter Library
B 6:30pm – 8:00pm Get Your Head Out of the Clouds! San Diego Public Library: Tierrasanta Branch
D 12:00am – 12:00am Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Balboa Park Activity Center

March 31 • Tuesday

F 11:30am – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Dr. David Baltimore
B 6:15pm – 7:45pm Stem Cell Science: The Pace to Cures San Diego Natural History Museum
B 7:00pm – 9:00pm Diabetes goes Techno - Are you up on the hottest technologies in diabetes care? Preuss School, UCSD campus
D 12:00am – 12:00am Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Balboa Park Activity Center

April 1 • Wednesday

D 9:30am – 4:00pm Small Wonders UC San Diego campus
F 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Robert H. Grubbs
F 4:00pm – 8:00pm Spotlight on Science in the Valley of Discovery at Cal State San Marcos California State University San Marcos
D 5:00pm – 7:30pm Science on the Mesa and Beyond Torrey Pines Mesa
F 5:00pm – 6:00pm Powerful Latinas Interview Series: Interview with Astronaut Ellen Ochoa Online-Teleconference
F 5:30pm – 7:00pm Exploring Ethics: Smart Drugs: How smart are they? Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
D 12:00am – 12:00am Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Balboa Park Activity Center

April 2 • Thursday

D 12:00pm – 4:00pm Lockheed Martin at the Air & Space Museum Air & Space Museum
F 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch with a Laureate: Dr. Gerald M. Edelman
B 1:00pm – 2:00pm Finding Health Information on the Web - At Any Age! UCSD Biomedical Library
B 2:00pm – 3:00pm The Science of Napping Mesa College, Room H117
B 3:00pm – 4:00pm Finding Health Information on the Web - At Any Age! UCSD Biomedical Library
F 5:30pm – 7:00pm THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED - From Idea to Marketplace - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED UC San Diego, Rady School of Management, Otterson Hall, Multi-purpose room 2 (2s117)
D 6:00pm – 8:00pm This is Your Brain on Science 3 locations: High Tech Middle: 2359 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106-6025; High Tech High North County: 1420 W. San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, CA 92078; High Tech High Chula Vista: 1945 Discovery Falls...
F 6:00pm – 8:30pm The Future of Green Jobs with SDG&E Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
F 7:00pm – 8:30pm Why Darwin Matters - Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Battle for Science and Religion UC San Diego
D 12:00am – 12:00am Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair Balboa Park Activity Center

April 3 • Friday

D 11:30am – 8:00pm 3rd Annual Bioengineering Day UC San Diego, Atkinson Hall, Calit2
D 12:00pm – 4:00pm Lockheed Martin at the Air & Space Museum Air & Space Museum
D 5:00pm – 8:00pm Family Science Night

April 4 • Saturday

D 10:25am – 6:00pm The Science of You Expo Day Balboa Park
10:30am – 10:50am SeaWorld Killer Whale Education Show Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
11:00am – 12:00pm Bats, Hedgehogs, and Flying Creatures Inside the Museum of Man
11:00am – 11:45am Science and the Paranormal Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
11:00am – 11:45am The Magic of Math William and Grayson Boehm Community Forum
11:00am – 11:45am The Misunderstood Marsupial Smargon Learning Lab
11:15am – 12:00pm Mad Science Presents: Spin, Pop Boom Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
D 11:40am – 2:00pm San Diego Science Festival Rubik's Cube Tournament Cascades Area (Inbetween the San Diego Natural History Museum and Ruben H. Fleet Science Center
12:15pm – 1:15pm Molecules that Changed the World Smargon Learning Lab
12:15pm – 1:15pm Yellow Submarine Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
12:30pm – 1:15pm Who was Galileo Galilei? Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
1:30pm – 3:30pm Chatter About Matter Smargon Learning Lab
1:45pm – 2:15pm Irreproducible Results from the Journal Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
2:00pm – 2:30pm Science Spectacular Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
2:45pm – 3:30pm The Science of Magic and the Magic of Science Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
3:00pm – 3:25pm Insect Inventions and Demonstrations Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
3:45pm – 4:15pm SciTalk Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
3:54pm – 4:30pm Eating -- Is There a Solution to the Confusion? Smargon Learning Lab
4:00pm – 4:30pm Light up your Mind with Albert Einstein Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
4:00pm – 5:00pm We Are Not Alone! William and Grayson Boehm Community Forum
4:45pm – 5:30pm Science Rocks! Science Spectacular Stage by KPBS
5:00pm – 5:30pm Chemistry - It's More Than Just Puffs and Bangs Grayson Boehm Lecture Hall
5:00pm – 5:45pm The Magic of Math Smargon Learning Lab