UBC is proud to be a host of Science Rendezvous, a national festival that takes science out of the lab and on to the street. Join us on Saturday May 7, 2022 from 10AM to 3PM for a day of hands-on, family friendly science activities!
Festival-goers of all ages will get a chance to meet world-class researchers and innovators, participate in hands-on experiments, and see amazing scientific demonstrations on UBC's Vancouver campus. See map with venues and parking below. In accordance with UBC's campus rules, masks or face coverings are required in public indoor spaces.
Events and Hands-On Science
Pacific Museum of Earth
Get hands on with a table of touchable fossils. There will also be tours of the new Hominin Hall and guided tours of the new Walk Through Time exhibit at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00.
- Location: Pacific Museum of Earth
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Visit Canada's largest blue whale skeleton. The Museum is running its regular daily programming schedule and is open by donation.
- Location: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream with UBC Chemistry
| Time | Show | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Fun with Colours | Chemistry B150 |
| 11:30 | Fun with Materials | Chemistry B250 |
| Noon | Fun with Fuels | Chemistry B150 |
| 12:30 | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream | Between Chemistry B and D wings, weather permitting |
| 1:00 | Fun with Colours | Chemistry B150 |
| 1:30 | Fun with Materials | Chemistry B250 |
- Location: Chemistry B Block
Fun with Robots
UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach is on a mission to provide youth with the opportunity to investigate engineering, science and technology in a fun, educational and safe environment.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building lobby throughout the day
Make an Air Vortex Cannon
Make an air vortex cannon with UBC Let's Talk Science. Learn basic concepts about air and advanced concepts in fluid dynamics.
- Location: Beaty Biodiversity Museum courtyard throughout the day
Math Mania
Interactive demonstrations, puzzles, games art and mathematical paradoxes that make math and computer science concepts fun. Math Mania welcomes all age levels, but is particularly suited to students in Grades 2 to 5.
- Locations: Interactive stations at all venues throughout the day
Holographic Systems and VR
UBC HiVE offers demonstrations with Hololens 2 (a holographic system) and Oculus Quest 2 (a virtual reality system).
- Location: Earth Sciences Building Main Floor
LEGO Bricks, Paper Circuits and Oscilloscopes
Build a chart of nuclides using LEGO, draw paper circuits to light-up LEDs, and learn how programmable sensor data can be displayed with an oscilloscope. Travel virtually into the heart of UBC-based TRIUMF, and the world's largest cyclotron of its kind.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012
Magic and Mazes with UBC Computer Science
Explore data representation and structures presented as puzzles, games and challenges! UBC Computer Science and the Vancouver Independent School for Science and Technology illuminate the science of computing without touching a keyboard.
- Location: Outside the Beaty Museum throughout the day
Play with Microscopes
Come to the lab and play with microscopes and discover the beauty of pond biodiversity!
- Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 105 throughout the day
Create Your Own Gut
Make a piece of art with Microbiology and Immunology that lets you "create your own gut" by decorating it with specific microbes based on your lifestyle.
- Location: Outside the Beaty Museum throughout the day
Extract DNA from strawberries
The UBC Social Exposome Research Cluster aims to understand the biological mechanisms by which social factors get 'under the skin' to influence health. Join us for fun-filled STEM demonstrations, interactive activities and the premiere screening of a video at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. showing how early life factors influence future health outcomes.
- Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 101
Science Talks
10:00am
Microbes and Human Health
The Tropini lab investigates the connection between gut microbes and human health, common factors that impact bacteria in our gut, and how these changes may contribute to digestive disorders.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013
3D Coral Project
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012
11:00am
How Birds Move
How birds use visual motion to maneuver, feed and avoid collisions in flight.
- Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 102
Food Nutrition - What's Good to Eat
Eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods is one way to support health. But it's not just about what you put on your plate. Get the big picture on how stress and anxiety impact diet using real life experiences and current research projects from the Cohen Lab at UBC.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013
Successes and Failures in Engineering
Engineers will not always build a successful product on the first try. They can learn as much from a failed or computer simulated part as they can from a working one. Find out how materials engineers use simulations and failure analysis investigations to improve products from biomedical devices to airplanes.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012
Noon
Higgs @ 10
Ten years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic particle, researchers at the world's largest science experiment are gearing up for next-generation searches. Join TRIUMF physicists to explore the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS detection experiment, and Canada's role on the frontier of physics.
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013
Race to Immunity
Learn the steps in designing, producing and distributing your own vaccine in a pandemic. Beat another team in a dramatic race against time!
- Location: Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 101
1:00pm
Three Minute Thesis Finalists
- Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 102
Wild Mushrooms: Careful What You Eat
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013
Bird Feathers and Improving Flight Performance
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012
2:00pm
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Social Exposome Cluster
The Social Exposome Research Cluster aims to understand the biological mechanisms by which social factors get 'under the skin' to influence health. Join us for fun-filled STEM demonstrations, interactive activities and the premiere screening of a video showing how early life factors influence future health outcomes.
- Location: Michael Smith Building, Room 101
Dark Extinction
A talk on the recent and future extinction of species. Are there species that have become recently extinct without being scientifically recorded, and perhaps leaving no physical trace?
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1013
What Electron Microscopy Teaches Us About the World
- Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012
Venues
The locations are close together. Museums are open by donation. In accordance with UBC’s campus rules, masks or face coverings are required in public indoor spaces.
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