Science IS Fun at UCLA's Exploring Your Universe -Sunday Nov. 4th

Exploring Your Universe is a program that shares the wonders of science with audiences both young and old. It seeks to capture the interest of children with hands-on demonstrations and experiments, comet making, dinosaur fossils, space rocks and more, and offers the adults the opportunity to cultivate their interests with displays, interaction with UCLA experts, and a lecture series featuring talks presented by faculty and graduate students.

Science talks include the following topics: Fun with Plastics; Exploring an Ocean World: The Europa Clipper Mission; Cold Science: Using Ice to Look at the Universe’s Biggest Explosions; What’s Inside Mars?; On Earth and Mars, Volcanoes Galore; Shields Up!; ELFIN- UCLA’s first
student-built satellite: how does it work?; Nature Strikes Back!

The planetarium will be offering shows every half hour. (Tickets will be available in advance at the information booth and are timed entry and limited to planetarium capacity seating.) There will be evening events from 5 to 8 pm. Daytime activities take place from 12 noon to 5 pm.

A schedule of the entire day's events can be found at: https://www.exploringyouruniverse.org/program/

All the activities are free to the public. The event will be held in the Court of Sciences (a good place to start) and in the nearby Geology, Physics, Chemistry and Math buildings. Metro, Santa Monica and Culver City buses service Westwood and the UCLA campus. If driving, the closest UCLA parking structure is Lot 2 off Hilgard Avenue south of Westholme Avenue. If entering campus from Westwood Blvd., buy an all-day parking pass for Lot 8 from the center island kiosk on Westwood just north of Charles Young/Circle Drive. (Ask the attendant for a map and directions or download the map from the Exploring Your Universe website.) Parking is $12 on the UCLA campus.