The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University, with Club for the Future and Prime Video, is hosting a free screening of Good Night Oppy on October 27 at AMC Framingham (22 Flutie Pass, Framingham). Doors open at 6PM and film is 7PM-9PM. It’s an inspiring, true story of Opportunity, the rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. Recommended for ages 14+. Tickets are free. Registration is required (with the code at that link) and confirmed on first-come/first-served basis.
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HMSC celebrates National Fossil Day, Oct. 8
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will celebrate National Fossils Day on October 8, 1PM-4PM, with a full schedule of short talks and table-top presentations for all ages about invertebrate paleontology and evolution. The program features paleontologists who speak Spanish and English. The cost is included in the cost of museum admission. Free parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage (map).
Cambridge Science Festival: Expanded Schedule and Venues, Oct. 3-9
The Cambridge Science Festival has expanded its schedule, now October 3-9 across more venues in Cambridge. Scan and search the Festival Guide of events — 116 so far, with perhaps more to be added soon. All events are free and open to the public, but several have limited capacity and require advance reservations, via links in the Festival Guide.
The original schedule of events, all at the Kendall/MIT Open Space (292 Main Street), has a different theme each day:
- October 6: Science + Climate — dedicated to all things environmental, renewable, and sustainable
- October 7: Science + Food — the latest in edible chemistry, at a “farmer’s market of the future”
- October 8: Science + Fashion — runway shows, exhibitions, discussion and interaction with designers, makers, engineers, brands, artisans, influencers and the public
- October 9: Science + Carnival — a family-friendly, science-themed, Great American Carnival, noon-4PM featuring a Main Stage, Midway, Side Shows, Walk-abouts, with “competitions and challenges, interactive engineering and hands-on experiments, design workshops and demonstrations, from telescopes to microscopes, from celestial bodies to synthetic bodies, lasers, DNA, the brain, from marine biology to biological machines, from circuit-boards to circus-shows… and very many robots!”
Register by Oct. 1 for Transportation YOU Summit, Ages 8-18, Oct. 15
WTS-Boston’s outreach group, Transportation YOU will host the 2022 Transportation YOU Boston Summit for all gender identities, with a focus on girls, on October 15, 10AM-3PM at Emmanuel College (400 Fenway, Boston). It will introduce students to transportation planning and engineering and feature hands-on activities workshops led by transportation professionals. It’s free, and lunch is included. Registration is required and will close on October 1 or when 100 have registered. For more information, contact Emily Buck at 508-823-2245 or transportationyouboston@gmail.com.
N. E. Sci-Tech Astronomy Day, Oct. 1
The New England Sci-Tech (NEST) STEM education center (16 Tech Circle, off Route 9 in Natick) will host Astronomy Day on October 1, 4PM-9PM.
Massachusetts Girls STEM Summit, Oct. 23
Jr. Tech will sponsor a Girls STEM Summit at Wentworth Institute of Technology (550 Huntington Ave, Boston) on October 23, 8AM-4PM. It’s aimed at all persons who identify as female, non-binary, or other gender identity or expression in Grades 8-12 who love STEM and would like to learn about emerging STEM careers. Sponsors include Akamai Foundation, NationalGrid, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Eastern Bank, and SIM Boston. The cost is $70 and includes lunch. Register online for individuals or groups of students. For more information, email rachel@juniortech.org.
The Boston/Cambridge Innovation Trail — Walking Tours Sept. 22, Oct. 8, and When You Wish
You’ve walked Boston’s Freedom Trail, and now you can walk The Innovation Trail between Boston and Cambridge. The Innovation Trail currently features 21 stops between Government Center and Central Square, highlighting world-changing ideas that have come from our community since the American Revolution. A work in progress — historian Bob Krim has cataloged 400+ innovations from the area — The Innovation Trail already covers anesthesia, vaccines, color movies, the telephone, cameras, email, radar, guidance chips, rubber firehose, the Human Genome Project, and more. There are several opportunities for tours:
- Private guided tours are available via Cambridge Historical Tours.
- The Venture Café in Cambridge will host a free, “sneak peek” mini-tour of the Cambridge portion of The Innovation Trail on September 22, 4PM-5:30PM, in conjunction with Startup Boston Week. It will be led by Scott Kirsner, who wrote about the Innovation Trail in the Boston Globe in July. Pre-register here.
- You can sign up here for a 90-minute public tour on October 8, 10:30AM-12PM ($15), scheduled to align with the Cambridge Science Festival and starting at Toscanini’s Ice Cream (899 Main Street, Cambridge).
- Take your own self-guided tour of the trail, starting from either Boston or Cambridge, with maps and information on The Innovation Trail website.
Science Trivia Challenge for Middle- and High-School Students, Oct. 6
The Cambridge Science Festival and the MIT Club of Boston are hosting the Science Trivia Challenge for teams of middle- and high-school students on October 6, 5PM-9PM at the Broad Institute (415 Main Street, Cambridge). Review how to play and then register your team here. Entry fee is $10 per team ($0 for spectators). Space is limited. Sponsored by MathWorks.
Register for Science on Saturday (Undersea Technologies) at MIT Lincoln Labs, Oct. 22
Registration is now open for the Saturday-morning session of Science on Saturday, on October 22 at 10AM at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory (244 Wood Street in Lexington). The topic will be Undersea Technologies, presented by Lincoln Laboratory’s Andrew March. Learn about sound, sonar, and how sound and robots are used to explore the ocean. Learn how to build a simple remotely operated vehicle that can explore the water, and watch a real underwater vehicle explore an outdoor testing tank all by itself!
All children (5-17 years) must be escorted by an adult, and every adult must be a certified teacher or be escorted by a child or children. Children under 5 are not admitted. Admission is free but each person attending must be registered. Space is limited. Register online. Adults must bring government photo identification. See other rules on the registration pages.
HMSC Public Lecture — Why Sharks Matter: Shark Science and Conservation, Sept. 6
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will host a free public lecture — Why Sharks Matter: Shark Science and Conservation — on September 6, 6PM-7:15PM. It will take place both in-person (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge) and online. In either case, register here. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman will speak.