2025 Upcoming Festival Events
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Data Poetics
Thursday, 03/13/2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
What does slam poetry have to do with computer science? Allow us to introduce data poetics -- artistic expression, fueled by data. In this workshop, you will learn about the impact of how data captures our world and how language can be used to express it. You will have the opportunity to write a poem, sketch visualizations of data to accompany the poem, and (optionally) perform it.
AUDIENCE(S): Adults
Saturday, March 15, 2025
STEM Gems - #GiveGirlsRoleModels in STEM!
Saturday, 03/15/2025 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Join us for an interactive panel discussion that will enlighten and empower girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math! You'll meet exceptional women from a diverse set of STEM careers and learn about the unique journeys that led to their respective careers. You'll understand what they do, how they make a difference in the world, and how they help people using STEM. You'll walk away with advice, guidance, [..]
AUDIENCE(S): Families, High School, Middle School, Adults
Discovery Walk: Emory University
Saturday, 03/15/2025 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Science is all around us, often hidden in everyday places - where we live, where we play, and where we walk. Come explore one of these spaces with our latest Discovery Walk map of the Emory campus. Lucy, our Emory Discovery Docent will lead you on this 2.5 mile route through campus with ten intriguing science stops. Bonus - the walk ends at the Carlos Museum and your map will get you free admission! Once you [..]
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, Families, High School, Middle School
Proton Precision: Inside Emory's Proton Therapy Center
Saturday, 03/15/2025 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Get a behind the scenes look into the Emory Proton Therapy Center's cutting edge technology, including high energy proton beams that target cancer with sub-millimeter precision! Learn the physics behind the treatment, and get a hands-on opportunity to treat the "patient" in your tour group! Join us for a journey through our clinical workflow and engaging activities on the Medical Physics concepts behind imaging, treatment planning, and radiation delivery.
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, High School, Families
Community Science for Change
Saturday, 03/15/2025 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Impact your neighborhood through Science! Communities across Atlanta have partnered with the Emory HERCULES Exposome Research Center as citizen scientists to tackle local environmental health issues. Pick up an event passport, your key to an interactive journey through each booth as you step into the shoes of our community citizen scientists. Experience the tools and methods used to track contaminants, monitor water quality, test air samples, and more! Explore the impacts that citizen scientists in [..]
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, Families, High School, Middle School
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Health Storytelling: Carl Zimmer and "Air-borne"
Wednesday, 03/19/2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Every day we draw in 2,000 gallons of air — and thousands of living things. The air teems with invisible life, yet this last biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over 2 years for scientists to agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In conversation with author and journalist Maryn McKenna, New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer will lead us through the living atmosphere, weaving together gripping history and [..]
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, High School, Middle School
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Celebrating Animals in Music and Medicine
Thursday, 03/20/2025 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
What does a cat doctor practice? Meow-dicine! In this event, you'll learn that there's more to animals than meets the eye. In fact, musicians, healers, and scientists have been inspired by animal medicine for thousands of years! Join pianists William Ransom and Julie Coucheron as they play a four-hand piano rendition of the Carnival of the Animals to celebrate swans, cats, and elephants in music, while biologist Jaap de Roode reveals how these animals [..]
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, High School, Middle School, Families, Elem. School
Friday, March 21, 2025
CHEMISTRY BONANZA DEMO SHOW!
Friday, 03/21/2025 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Come see exciting chemistry reactions and demonstrations! We will explore the chemistry of polymers, combustion reactions, cloud formation, and even a few fireballs. How do you speed up a reaction? Or slow it down? We'll explore it all! Liquid nitrogen ice cream will be served as well—tasty chemistry!
There is limited seating for this event. Reserved tickets do not guarantee a seat. Arrive early to ensure your seat.
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, Families, High School, Middle School, Elem. School
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Exploration Expo
Saturday, 03/22/2025 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Come on out to the explosive conclusion of the 2025 Atlanta Science Festival!
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Emory
AUDIENCE(S): Adults, Families, High School, Middle School, Elem. School
