Framingham State University’s Christa McAuliffe Center will hold this year’s festival, Science on State Street — Planet Earth Edition April 12-24.  Events will include hands-on activities for all ages as well as discussions with scholars and climate activists for young adults and older. Most events will be online/virtual but some will be outdoor and in-person following Massachusetts COVID-19 Guidelines. The keynote address — Global Warming Demystified — will be on Zoom on April 22, 5:30-6:30PM. Registration is required for most events. For more information, email cmc@framingham.edu.

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will present a webinar, Body Builders: How Animals Regenerate New Parts, on April 14, 6PM-7PM. Registration is free, and optional donations are requested.

Boston’s Museum of Science will host a free webinar, Vaccination Decisions: What Does the Future Hold?, the third of three virtual town halls about the COVID-19 vaccines, on March 23, 5PM-6:30PM. It will address questions such as: Should schools and workplaces require COVID-19 vaccines? What will travel look like? Will the general public’s phase of vaccine roll-out be equitable for all populations? What long-term changes will our society face after COVID-19? Registration is required. After presentations by the panelists, attendees may join small-group discussions to share concerns and ask questions.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering its Science on Saturdays programs virtually this year, and registration is NOT required. The programs are free and designed for children aged 5-17, their parents, and teachers. On Saturday, April 10 at 10AM, the program will be Destination: Space Exploration, here on Zoom.

The Newton Schools Foundation is hosting Newton Inspires, its annual fundraising event, virtually this year.  Among the fascinating speakers, Dr. Giovanni Fazio will speak on April 13 at 7PM about Our Origin and Our Demise: Birth, Life and the Death of Stars. He’s a senior physicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a lecturer in the Astronomy Department at Harvard. Register here and sponsor the event here.

Newton’s high-school robotics team, the LigerBots, will host a virtual Hackathon for Grades 4-8 on April 3, 1PM-5PM. Students with or without programming experience will compete in teams of 2 to 4 to code the best animation in Scratch. There will be workshops for the first half of the event and prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Register here, either as a team or an individual to be matched to a team. High-school students who are proficient in the Scratch programming language are invited to help out! Contact iris_yang@ligerbots.com or cmo@ligerbots.com with any questions.

On March 24, 7PM-8PM, the Blue Hill Observatory will host a webinar,
Taking the Fingerprints of Global Sea Level Change, presented by Dr. Jerry X. Mitrovica, Professor of Science in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2019. To support the nonprofit work of the observatory, a registration fee ($10 for BHO members, $15 for others) is requested but not required. Register to get sign-in credentials for the webinar and optionally make a donation.

Professional Women in Construction (PWC) Boston is hosting a free, online event — Full STEAM Ahead: Career Paths of Women in Architecture, Engineering and Construction — on March 9, 3PM-4PM, for high-school and college students (of all genders) to learn about careers in these fields. Register by March 8. Speakers include:

• Christine Bernard, Marketing Coordinator, Rider Levett Bucknall
• Chrissy Gabriel, Director of Life Sciences, Siena Construction
• Ai Kurokawa, AIA, Architect & Principal, Isgenuity
• Taygra Longstaff, PE, Structural Engineer and Deputy Project Manager, Arup
• Jamie MacDonald, Construction Project Manager, Capital Projects Management, Boston College
• Kelsey Rogers, Senior Acoustics Consultant, Acentech
• Caroline Fitzgerald, New England Client Relations, RMF Engineering

Boston College will hold BC Splash virtually — and free — this semester on Sunday, March 28, 10AM-4:15PM.  Splash is a one-day, student-run program in which undergraduates and graduate students teach mini-courses for students in Grades 7-12. Registration is required, and course selection is first-come/first-served. For more information, email bcsplash@gmail.com. STEM-related classes in the course catalog include:

• Infant to Teen Psychology: How We Become Who We Are!
• Forensics 101
• How useful are quantum computers?
• Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Medical and Daily Application
• Let’s Innovate! A Choose Your Own Adventure Game about Technology
• Psychosocial Epidemiology
• Intro to Programming in Python
• Math is Weird, Math is Fun
• Straws and Turtles: Our Global Plastic Pollution Problem
• Neurophysiology of Timothy Syndrome
• Global Public Health Issues & How We Can Help
• COVID-19: Understanding and Modeling Viruses
• Understanding Cryptocurrency
• Congressional Apportionment
• Pre-Dental Info Session
• Cancer: Investigations of Basic Biology and Public Health
• Intro to Game Programming
• How to Save a Life
• The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration
• Want to be an EMT?
• Math intersects Art: Tessellations!
• Ethics of Genetic Engineering
• The Science behind Photography