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The American Association of University Women (AAUW) sponsors STEM Savvy, a free annual event for 6-8 grade girls to participate in hand on activities with women in STEM careers at a local university.

Nicholas Gessler, Ph.D. Anthropology, Duke University (retired), Advisor to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery and the Purple Mountain Meteorite Museum in Nanjing, and finder of hundreds of meteorites in Californa and Nevada will share samples and knowledge about meteorites.

LIGO Lab detectors listen for ripples in space time created by large events, like black holes colliding. Hundreds of people work together to build, improve and listen to the signals from our two huge detectors in the US.

IPAC is a research organization at Caltech focusing on interpreting, archiving, and sharing data from a range of telescopes on Earth and in space.

The Huntington Library’s conservators use science to help stories from the past reach the future.

The Raymond M. Alf Museum is a center for paleontological research and education located in Claremont, California.

From the revelation of the universe’s expansion to the discovery of dark energy, Carnegie Observatories researchers have transformed humankind’s understanding of the cosmos. The groundbreaking work continues today at our world-famous Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us. Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, are asteroids and comets that come close to the Earth. Some of them are potentially hazardous. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission, or NEO Surveyor, is a NASA mission that is designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous NEOs.

TMT is one of the future Extremely Large Telescope and asuccessor of the present day 8-10 meter world class telescopes.