Bay Area Science Festival

Bay Area Science Festival

The Bay Area Science Festival (BASF) is an annual science festival started in 2011[1] that takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area counties every year at the end of October/beginning of November.[2] The BASF program features over 50 events each year. The program typically features large free hands-on science days called Discovery Days, one in the North Bay, one in the East Bay, and one at Oracle Park in San Francisco.[3] Additionally, the program features lab tours, conversations with leading scientists, and performances from groups from around the nation. In 2013, around 70,000 people attended, which was a 30% increase from the year before.[3]

BASF planning is headquartered at the University of California, San Francisco. BASF's founder is former National Academy of Sciences president Bruce Alberts, and its director in 2011 was Kishore Hari.[1] Principal institutional sponsors have included Chevron, Genentech, and UC San Francisco[3] and funding has been provided in part, from the National Science Foundation.[1]

The 10th BASF was held from October 21−25, 2020 as a virtual event, but online event due to the first year of COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The 11th BASF was held from October 20-24, 2021 as a virtual event, but it was cancelled due to the highly transmissible Deltacron hybrid variant.[citation needed] However, after the first two years of the pandemic, the 12th BASF was held from October 26-30, 2022 as a virtual event again.

  1. ^ a b c Perlman, David (August 17, 2011), Science Festival to show off Bay Area innovation, SFGate.com, archived from the original on February 2, 2013, retrieved 2011-10-04
  2. ^ Wolverton, Troy (November 2, 2013), Bay Area Science Festival: Robot 'zoo' brings together kids, 'bots, Mercury News, retrieved 2014-05-14
  3. ^ a b c UCSF (May 15, 2014), Bay Area Science Festival Final Report, Bayareascience.org, archived from the original on May 17, 2014, retrieved 2014-05-14
  4. ^ Reynolds, Brandon R. (2020-10-20). "Bay Area Science Festival Goes Virtual for 10th Year of the Community Event". University of California San Francisco. Retrieved 2021-07-05.