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TV COVERAGE of BASF 2025 at UCSF Mission Bay

KTVU news coverage from the 2025 Bay Area Science Festival

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KTVU News Anchor, Cristina Rendon:

The Bay Area Science Festival took over UCSF’s Mission Bay campus today. Organizers say it’s Northern California’s largest free science event offering hands-on experiments, games, demos, behind the scenes lab tours, film screenings, and science talks.  There was a 30 foot long whalebone that guests could touch, as well as a 3D printing booth and robot demonstrations. 

Bay Area Science Festival Director, Katherine Nielsen:

This event is about sparking wonder and about making connections and inspiring the next generation. 

KTVU News Anchor, Cristina Rendon:

This was the 12th year UCSF put on the Science Festival.

Publications about the Science Festival

Journal Articles

“Celebrating STEM Virtually: The Bay Area Science Festival During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Journal of STEM Outreach, Vol. 4, Issue 3, August 2021 by Sabine Jeske,
MS, Jennifer Chu Kaelin, MS, and Katherine Nielsen, MA, MS

 
Download the article here

COVID Safety

The Bay Area Science Festival will manage all in-person events with the health, safety and well-being of our staff, volunteers, hosts, exhibitors, and guests in mind. In response to COVID-19, we will be implementing public health requirements for all event hosts and attendees in accordance with local and state guidelines in order to celebrate science safely throughout the Bay Area. 

The Bay Area Science Festival encourages you to get vaccinated, wear a mask and practice social distancing. Be sure to check back for updated and more detailed COVID safety information prior to attending.

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