LSSC Advisory Board Members Amy Aines and Rick Stulen conducted a Growth Mindset Workshop on August 1 for students involved in Innovation Tri-Valley’s Boomerang Project. The Boomerang Project matches area companies with graduating high school seniors, college...
On July 23, the Livermore City Council unanimously approved a motion directing staff to enter into negotiations with LSSC for a development agreement that would provide more certainty in zoning requirements for our building. This supplements a previous decision to...
On Saturday, July 20, LSSC fielded its wind tunnel and vacuum drop exhibits at the Valley Children’s Museum in Dublin’s Emerald Glen Park as part of a joint Super Saturday event celebrating the Apollo 11 moon mission. This was our first full demonstration of the...
We introduced our new vacuum drop exhibit at the Safari Kid Danville Summer Camp for School Children. This apparatus complements the wind tunnel apparatus to teach about the effect of air resistance on how fast objects fall. It was inspired by the hammer-and-feather...
In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, LSSC has fabricated a scale model that uses LED light strips to track the trajectory of the rocket and space capsule—first around the earth, to the moon, around the moon, and then back again....
June 15, 2019 Over 700 people came to our exhibits at the June 15 Summer Fest Celebration at the Livermore Public Library. Kids decorated parachutes and attached them to a toy space capsule in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. They...
On May 21, LSSC volunteers used our vertical wind tunnel to provide a classroom educational experience for 6th graders at Oak Grove Middle School in Concord. This activity was a pilot demonstration for our ability to engage an entire class in taking and analyzing data...
LSSC is proud to announce its sponsorship of an upcoming Rae Dorough series talk by futurist and writer Jamie Metzl on how genetic engineering will soon transform the world within and around us. Although we think about genetic technologies primarily in the context of...