College and Beyond (21+)

Learn Modular Origami and make your own! Children and grownups will create their own modular origami for beginners and advanced learners. Learn about origami art, history and STEM!

Visitors to the booth can participate in a walkthrough illustrating the basics of genetics and how DNA can affect our physical beings. Following the walkthrough, visitors can enjoy three hands on activity stations. The first is a Build your own DNA station, the second is a genetic engineering station, and at the final station, a robot can be build based on the selection of dominate or recessive genes from two parent robots.

Since 2009 Castle Park High students, with Dr. Pomeroy of UCSD, have learned to produce biodiesel from vegetable oil. Students use a particle counter to determine how “clean” the fuel burns and discuss how particulate impacts our global climate. Students present this field data to support the benefits of biodiesel. Our booth, as in years past, will demonstrate the step-by-step process of biodiesel synthesis, discuss the advantages of biodiesel over petroleum and outline the ease of production.

Discover the exciting ways that your brain helps you to perceive your world. Learn about your perceptions through visual illusions and how your memory reflects how you see, think and remember. Discover the amazing world of Psychological Science and how science explains how your mind works!

UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy booth will provide an exposure to the health services that pharmacists provide to our society. Through a series of fun and interactive activities, visitors will learn about different diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and asthma. Furthermore, the booth will provide information about immunization, medication safety and pharmaceutical compounding. Examples of activities include learning how to use inhalers and ingredients necessary for pharmaceutical compounding

Hands-on interactive activities in biology, including human anatomy and animal specimens.

Zovargo's booth is interactive and hands-on! There will be live parrots, insects, reptiles and more available for interactions and encounters as well as fun animal games!

Join EcoVivarium's Living Museum and experience the world of reptiles, amphibians and arthropods. Get up close and touch or hold everything from hissing cockroaches and tarantulas to desert iguanas and burmese pythons. The highly trained Animal Ambassadors of EcoVivarium are waiting for you to come by and Step In To Their World...(R) - see the impact these hidden creatures have on your very existence and how you can have an impact on their world.