Maker Faire coming soon!

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A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. Advanced sale tickets are currently available for the Mac Daddy Maker Faire in San Mateo (that’s not the official name, but I think it fits) on the weekend of May 19&20. You know that Saturday Night Live skit with [...]

Cal Day fun for your little bear

visting the bug doctor

Cal Day is a terrific opportunity to for the little kids in the East Bay community to get a taste of the world class university in our backyard. Last year my preschooler and kindergartner audited a fun physics class and spent a the rest of the day running around the grounds. Experience it for yourself [...]

Reader tip: native garden tour for families

from Wen Hui Shen’s garden in Oakland

Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour is a A free tour of showcase native plant gardens in the East Bay. If you’re considering a big landscaping project or if you want a miniature outdoor experience for your littles, you won’t want to miss it. The theme is native (to the Bay Area) plants. A variety [...]

6 science summer camps in Oakland & Berkeley

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Ready for the summer camp shuffle? These great science camps will keep kids learning and engaged while they have fun this summer.

Reader tip: SWE Science Saturdays

For 4th and 5th grade students, register for these fabulous free events.

Imaginate at Lawrence Hall of Science

The large exhibit hall in the back was stuffed with hands-on experiments and stations that work for toddlers on up. My husband was also highly engaged.

Exploring the USS Hornet with little ones

Even kids too young for the engine room tour will have a blast. The flight deck features more aircraft, wide expanses of tarmac that little legs can use to run off energy and gorgeous views of San Francisco and the East Bay hills.

Field trip: Cal Academy of Sciences

Membership to the Cal Academy is worth it according to this East Bay mom of two.

Cool event: Science/math conference for girls

The Expanding Your Horizons conference at Cal is day-long event including hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Reader tip: ZooKids classes in Oakland

For four- and five-year old animal lovers, Oakland Zoo has a great DROP-OFF program. Yippee.

Birthday party entertainment: East Bay Vivarium

Have a little piece of the Vivarium brought to your house in the form of their traveling reptile program.

Favorite Bay Area outings for mad scientists

Ken Denmead is a husband and father from the San Francisco Bay Area,where he works as a civil engineer and the the author of the Geek Dad series of books. I asked him for his favorite local outings for mad scientist kids and parents.

Field trip: The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito

Animal-loving kids will love to see the baby seals, learn about what they eat and how we can take better care of our ocean-dwelling friends.

Field trip: Farm day in Brentwood

I took the kids to an awesome pick your own farm and pumpkin patch out in Brentwood that I totally recommend!

East Bay Mini Maker Faire: What to expect

We are currently cooking up a plan in cooperation with Sticky Art Lab to bring a fun, hands-on activity for kids to the East Bay Mini Maker faire.

Ticket Alert: East Bay Mini Maker Faire

Will you join us this year? Early bird tickets are available now and are 50% off the price of day of tickets.

A busy week at Camp Galileo

This summer we signed Holden up for one week of Camp Galileo in Berkeley. Here’s our experience.