Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day Returns to Oracle Park for 2022
The sunshine greeted attendees of the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park as they marked the return of an in-person event after several years of virtual happenings.
Discovery Day is one part of the yearly science festival that is organized by UC San Francisco’s Science and Health Education Partnership in collaboration with Bay Area universities, museums, cultural institutions, libraries, corporations, after-school groups, research labs and government agencies.
This year, the festival, now in its 11th year, ran from April 21-30, with a mix of in-person and virtual events.
See the photos of this year’s Discovery Day, and learn more about how SEP is bringing science education to Bay Area schoolchildren.
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The Neuroscience Zone in Oracle Park’s outfield featured canopies with interactive demonstrations to inspire kids' curiosity during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park on April 24. The yearly science festival, organized by UC San Francisco’s Science and Health Education Partnership, returned to in-person events after being fully virtual for the last few years. Photos by Maurice Ramirez
![researcher holds a brain](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-Neurohub.jpg)
Stephanie Eberly, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, talks to kids about neuroscience using a human brain during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park.
![two children look at items on a table in front of a microscope](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-microscope.jpg)
Lainey Marineck, 5, and her brother Sebastian Marineck, 8, learn about immune cells in the blood during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park.
![two parents walk with kids on field at Oracle Park](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-family-on-field.jpg)
Isabella Torres, 15 months-old, and Sydney Statum, 6, playi with Sam Statum and Flores Statum on the field during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park.
![child roasts a marshmellow with a mirror](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-marshmellow.jpg)
Alonna Patton, 12, sees how quickly a marshmallow get be roasted by focused sunlight. The UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership organizes the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day to bring hand-on STEM demonstrations to attendees of the event.
![kids used stuffed animal to learn about dental health](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-dentistry.jpg)
Camille Fong, 9, Abigail Fong, 11, engage in some dental care demonstrations at the UCSF School of Dentistry zone in the dugout at Oracle Park during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day.
![child looks at a computer screen with fault zones on it](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-fault-zones_0.jpg)
Ersemdyck Ogongo, 8, learns about the Bay Area's fault zones at the US Geological Society table at Oracle Park during the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day.
![kids throw balls toward robots](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_2x/public/2022-05/Bay-Area-Science-Festival-2022-robots.jpg)
Robots built and operated by the Iron Panthers, a student-run science and technology team at Burlingame High, catch and throw basketballs to kids who have come to the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day at Oracle Park.