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• Participate in interactive exhibits and demos of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEaM).
• Join hands-on workshops
• Listen to short science talks…and ask questions
• Watch short movies in a Discovery Dome (planetarium) or short clips in a 3D visualization lab
• Take a mini tour of the Klystron Gallery and Linac Coherent Light Source
• Get free hotdogs/burgers and drinks, giveaways, and a chance to win exciting prizes (drawing at 7:00 p.m.)

Community Day is presented by SLAC and KIPAC, with participation from various Stanford organizations.

Program

(subject to change without notice)

Participate in interactive exhibits and demos [SUSB and Kavli Buildings, Main Quad]

• Watch your hair rise as you walk through an electric field charged by Van de Graaff generators
• Shine a laser into flowing water and see it surf the water stream
• Learn how to make a Gatorade-powered battery
• See a wave visualized by fire streaming out of a tube
• Jump into the digital world and learn about physics
• Test buoyancy on different liquids
• Measure the width of your hair using laser
• Accelerate small ping pong balls through a clear tube at high speed
• See how molecules relax and polymers shrink with heat
• Find out how to blow up a marshmallow, make toilet paper fly, crush a soda can, and more using vacuum science techniques
• Visualize normally invisible heat gradients and fluid flows
• Learn how particles from space go through you with a cosmic ray detector
• Draw, color and stamp your way to an art-science mural
• Think like an archaeologist
• Create a straw bridge and test how much weight it can stand
• See scale models of the sun, planets and orbits
• Share your love and curiosity for science through poems or drawings
• Learn how a thin film creates iridescent, rainbow colors
• Take a selfie in our fun photo station with science-themed accessories
• Use UV light to transfer a pattern on a paper
• Check out a solar hydroponic garden: off-grid, sustainable and pesticide-free
• Look how X-rays can explore fascinating atomic and molecular sights through a hologram
• Learn about the science of light through a bubble-blowing activity
• View solar sunspots
• Explore a scale model of the sun, planets and orbits
• See planets, star clusters and galaxies with your own eyes through a telescope
• Meet a Zoox: Autonomous Testing Vehicle

Join hands-on workshops [SUSB]

• Build your own microscope 
• Learn how a telescope works
• Make your own planispheres (star-finders)

Listen to short science talks…and ask questions [Panofsky Auditorium]

• Earth Rocks! A Tour of our Planet from the Inside Out by Arianna Gleason-Holbrook (5:30-6:00 p.m.)
• Meet the –Trons, the Most Powerful Family in the World by Diana Gamzina (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
• Why We Need Dark Matter by Risa Wechsler (6:30-7:00 p.m.)
• Studying the Big Bang from Antarctica by Ari Jozef Cukierman (7:30-8:00 p.m.)
• Building the World's Largest Digital Camera by Adam Snyder (8:00-8:30 p.m.)

Watch short movies in a Planetarium [SUSB Breezeway] (first-come, first-served)

• Every 30 minutes from 5:30-7:00 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. (20-person capacity per time slot)

Watch short clips in 3D [Visualization Lab, 2nd Floor Kavli Building] (first-come, first-served)

• Every 30 minutes from 5:30-7:00 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. (25-person capacity per time slot)

Take a mini facility tour (first-come, first-served; closed-toed shoes required)

• Klystron Gallery* (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m.)
• Linac Coherent Light Source* (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m.)           
  *30-person capacity per tour slot; meet in the Orientation Theater in SUSB
• Accelerator Control Room** (5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | 8:00 p.m.)           
  **20-person capacity per tour slot; meet in the Main Quad