Lights! music! action! Celebrate curiosity, questions and all that is science on Saturday, April, 23 from 10am to 5pm at Bowling Green’s Circus Square Park.
SKy Science Festival’s 2022 Expo Day is free-of-charge and open to all. This bustling outdoor celebration of artistry, making and exploration includes dozens of activity tents, the demonstration stage, music, opportunities to create wondrous treasures and other delights.
Touch and handle an actual brain. Be amazed at how easily your senses can be fooled. Discover how a person’s point of view can alter the conclusions they reach. Attendees at this year’s Expo Day will have the opportunity to delve into the human brain and the nature of how we know what we know at various Brain Awareness activity stations sponsored by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.
Postponed due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the 2022 SKy Science Festival Expo Day has returned as a springtime carnival, scheduled around Earth Day and Arbor Day. Ronn Kistler, secretary on the board of directors for SKy Science Festival, Inc., predicts: “This year’s Expo Day should be the best yet. Anyone who came to the celebrations of 2015 through 2019 will be both thrilled to recognize old favorites returning and amazed at the fantastic new opportunities for this year.”
Dozens of other exhibitors will be sharing their engaging activities, challenges, exhibits and games. Rangers from Mammoth Cave National Park, amateur astronomers from WKU’s Hardin Planetarium and students of science from school throughout South Central Kentucky will be sharing activities to engage the young and the young at heart. Participants can explore electricity with the Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation (WRECC), investigate how heat gets measured by the infrared imaging technology shared by the Kentucky Thermal Institute and experience simulations of home fires with the Bowling Green Fire Department.
Music will abound at the 2022 Expo Day. Steel pan drums will be playing all day in front of the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC). David Foster and Masako Jeffers will perform lively science-related songs from the stage. The instruments played by WKU’s Chinese Music Club will be demonstrated and students from the WKU Society of Physics Students will help folks create their own slide oboe from plastic straws.
Even when pushed, Kistler could not choose a favorite event, “All of the Expo Day activities are designed to inspire and excite, to share the wonders that discovery brings to our lives. But you’ll also find me munching a lot at one of our food trucks.”
When asked about who should attend SKy Science Festival’s 2022 Expo Day, Dr. Michael Carini, WKU Department Head of Physics & Astronomy, responded with a grin: “Everyone! There are no barriers to sharing the thrill of science. SKySci Fest was founded so all people can realize science and technology are really just a walk in the park.”
-submitted by SKySci Fest