Weird Science Fair at Steenbock Library
March 17, 2025
Take a study break that feeds you and your brain: the first ever Weird Science Fair at Steenbock Library! Open to all of campus.
April 1, 2025. 12pm-2pm in the BioCommons.
Drop in for an afternoon of fun facts, science crafts, and treats! We will be serving free pizza, color-changing lemonade and weird candy. Learn about local research and do hands-on science activities offered by the libraries and campus partners.
Activities include:
- Cool bugs with Insect Ambassadors
- Polarization art with the Department of Physics
- The Hypothermia Challenge with Wisconsin Water Library and Wisconsin Sea Grant
- 3D Veterinary Models, with McLean Gunderson Model Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Balloon inflation experiment with WISCIENCE Service with Youth in STEM Outreach
- Cheese puffing with Department of Food Science
- Mosquito and Tick activities (and internship opportunity) with Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease
- Button making, science trivia, weird patents and specimen jars with Steenbock Library and Patent & Trademark Services
If you have any questions please contact asksel@library.wisc.edu
Sponsored by UW-Madison Libraries and WISCIENCE. Thank you to all the partners listed above!