Bay Area Science Festival

Bay Area Science Festival

The Bay Area Science Festival (BASF) is annual science festival that happen throughout the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties every year at the end of October/beginning of November. The BASF program features over 50 events each year. The program typically features large free hands-on science days called Discovery Days, one in the North Bay, one in the East Bay, and one at AT&T Park in San Francisco[1] . Additionally, the program features lab tours, conversations with leading scientists, and performances from groups from around the nation. Past participants have included Craig Venter, Carl Zimmer, Alton Brown, and Radiolab. Each year, approximately 70,000 people attend the festival.[2]

BASF planning is headquartered at the University of California, San Francisco. BASF's founder is former National Academy of Sciences president Bruce Alberts, and its director is Kishore Hari. Principal institutional sponsors are Chevron, Genentech, and UC San Francisco. Funding comes, in part, from the National Science Foundation.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Wolverton, Troy (November 2, 2013), Bay Area Science Festival: Robot 'zoo' brings together kids, 'bots, Mercury News, retrieved 2014-05-14
  2. ↑ UCSF (May 15, 2014), Bay Area Science Festival Final Report, Bayareascience.org, retrieved 2014-05-14
  3. ↑ Perlman, David (August 17, 2011), Science Festival to show off Bay Area innovation, SFGate.com, retrieved 04-10-2011 Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

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