Say hi to your micro-neighbors!
Have you ever wondered what happens around you in the small micro-world? Put on your explorer's outfit, assemble the microscope we provide and come take a hike with our experts to discover a hidden world (you get to keep your paper microscope!)
Find all the pictures from our fantastic day here:
http://bit.ly/tasteofsciSF
Please fell free to share yours as well!
Here is how our journey will look:
2:30pm Meet at the Freewheel Brewing Company to build your Foldscope with us!
3:30pm Commute to the Bedwell Bayfront Park
4pm Hike and probe the park
5:30pm Return to Freewheel Brewing Company
6pm Share and identify your discoveries of the day
We will be using Foldscopes — origami-based microscopes
Free for kids under 6 years old. Please register them as a separate group, using the promo code: CHILD.
From Macro to Micro
We'll be exploring Bedwell Bayfront Park
Food and drinks available for purchase
Family friendly
Meet our Hike Leaders
Dr. Arnold Mathijssen
Postdoc at Stanford
Arnold is working on the prevention of microbial contamination and the physics of ultra-fast biology.
Dr. Neil Robbins
Postdoc at Stanford
Born and raised in the Arizona desert, I came to Stanford to do a PhD studying how water stress affects plant root development.