High school seniors Grace True (Athenian) and Ashley Modena (San Ramon Valley High) expanded their horizons as part of Quest’s community science project "Expedition CO2." The pair created curriculum and led two workshops at Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons on...
Four Projects Honored with Inaugural Innovation Awards
To support innovative science learning in our community, Quest introduces the Quest Science Center Innovation Awards for science fair projects at the Livermore school district’s annual Science Odyssey. In this inaugural year, Quest is proud to provide four awards, one...
Cell Phone Exploration Excites Odyssey Goers
It’s only fitting that Quest takes people on an odyssey. At the Science Odyssey, held Feb. 13 at Junction Avenue K-8 in Livermore, a team from Quest brought three experiments in “cell phone science” to the event sponsored by the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School...
Quest Takes Climate Theme to Expanding Your Horizons
During the Expanding Young Horizons conference on February 22 at Dublin High, Quest unveiled a new learning module: measuring carbon and exploring its relationship to atmospheric science, photosynthesis, respiration, combustion and fermentation. Quest teamed up with a...
LSSC Wind Tunnel deployed at Bay Area Science Festival at Oracle Park in San Francisco
We deployed our wind tunnel on November 2 at the Bay Area Science Festival event in San Francisco as part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory booth at Oracle Park. Hundreds of children enjoy decorating parachutes and learning about gravity and wind...
Science Exhibits deployed at the East Bay Discovery Day
LSSC participated for the first time in the Bay Area Science Festival at the East Bay Discovery Day event held at Cal State East Bay on Saturday, October 26. Our exhibits included a debut of the improved percolation column experiment, which has larger and longer tubes...
LSSC Conducts Growth Mindset Workshop for ITV Boomerang Interns
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...
Apollo 11 Landing Celebrated with a Joint Super Saturday with the Valley Children’s Museum
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...