Science springs to life at Lake Tahoe Expo

UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center will host the eighth-annual Science Expo, together with Tahoe Expedition Academy, other community partners, and with sponsorship from the Rotary Club of Tahoe-Incline.

The Science Expo is open to the general public on the evening of Wednesday, March 20 from 4 – 6 p.m. for children of all ages together with their families at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences in Incline Village. Ice cream will be provided by Susie Scoops of Incline Village. Admission is free.

The event will feature dozens of hands-on, interactive science experiments, activities and demonstrations emphasizing Physical Science concepts such as physical and chemical properties of matter, density, energy, electricity, magnetism, light, and sound:

H2Olympics
It’s a Gas
All Stacked Up Density
Phase Change Poppers
Bubble Trouble
Super Spectroscopes
Cloud in a Bottle
Sizzling Static Electricity
Laser Light Show
Magnet Mania
Hovercraft
And much more!

Students from Kings Beach, Incline Village, Tahoe City, Truckee and South Lake Tahoe will be attending during the school days of March 18, 19, 20 and 21. High school students participating in the Youth Science Institute will facilitate science investigations with the younger students in the community. UC Davis AmeriCorps volunteers and docents will also be staffing some of the activity stations, and other volunteers and parents in the community are asked to participate.

Additional volunteers are still needed. If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please sign-up online or contact UC Davis TERC AmeriCorps member Hannah Leigh at 775-881-7560, ext. 7474 or hkleigh@ucdavis.edu. All volunteers will be trained and will have all activity materials required for their 2 – 3 hour shift. A science background is not necessary and you might even learn something new while sharing science with our local youth.

The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences is located at 291 Country Club Drive in Incline Village (between Tahoe Boulevard/SR 28 and Lakeshore Blvd.) on the campus of Sierra Nevada College. For more information or directions call 775-881-7566, or visit http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar/.

For more information, please contact Heather Segale, 775-881-7562, tercinfo@ucdavis.edu, or visit http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar/.