2025 Bay Area Science Festival w/ 120+ Free Hands-on Experiences (UCSF)

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Discover science fun and excitement together at the Bay Area Science Festival — Northern California’s largest free all-ages science event.

Experience 120+ mind-blowing hands-on experiments, games, demonstrations, behind the scenes lab tours, film screenings and science talks. Bring the whole family to race robots, marvel at live leopard sharks and a 30-foot-long whale skeleton, see your own brainwaves, sit in a real military airplane cockpit, roast a marshmallow by sun-power, participate in a science podcast, and so much more.

Bay Area Science Festival
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 11a-4p
USCF’s Mission Bay Campus (Koret Quad)
FREE – Learn More

• NEW: Mission Bay Location. Organized by UCSF, the festival is Saturday, October 25, 11AM-4PM at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus amid Koret Quad’s expansive lawns, walkways, pine grove and renowned educational, medical and biotech research facilities — one block from Chase Center.
• 1 Incredible Day. 120+ Hands-on Experiences. Free!
• Know Before You Go | Getting Here | Event Maps | Stage Events | Tours

 

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