2025 Corvallis Kaleidoscope
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Who: You, the NSF, the STEM Research Center, the Indigenous Education Institute, and the Oregon State and Corvallis community.
When: Saturday May 10, 2025 from 10am till 6pm
Why: To inspire public engagement in a way which highlights the support NSF has provided for science on the NSF’s 75th Annivesary.
Where: PRAx (Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts).
How: Booths, ‘roundtable’ discussions, STEAM Slam (like poetry slams or semi-traditional science presentations) and more (your ideas are welcome).
What: We are proud to share that Oregon State University will celebrate National Science Foundation’s 75th Anniversary on May 10, 2025 with a public STEAM Festival and Fair, Corvallis Kaleidoscope: Changing the Spectrum of STEM Through a Day of Wisdom and Wonder. This event will take place on Saturday May 10, 2025 from 10:00 am till 6:00 pm at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). You are cordially invited to help us celebrate by attending with colleagues, family and friends, sharing your research or organization at a table, creatively featuring your work in a STEAM Slam, or by taking part in discussions on Indigenous Ways of Knowledge and Western Science. The event will culminate in a live version of the Indigenous Education Institute’s speaker series, A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth, Water, and Sky.
The event will kick off with a STEAM Slam in the PRAx lobby where people can creatively share their research in song, dance, poems, photos, or other creative forms. The science fair will be going the whole day in the PRAx courtyard and northern lobby. There will be live demonstrations and a multitude of ways to be inspired by science happening in multiple sectors in the local Corvallis and OSU communities. Food trucks will be in the parking lot to refuel after interacting with the extraordinary projects being showcased. A rehearsal classroom space will be dedicated to round table talks, discussions, and presentations around Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being and Western Science. There will be many projects and organizations in the science fair that are being led by or involve Indigenous researchers and organizations as well. The final event of the day, the live speaker series, will also be held in the rehearsal classroom beginning at 4:00 pm and concluding around 6:00 pm.