UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Upcoming Events

Location

Date

Time

Weekly Pizza Lunch with SciTrek Secondary! 

Arbor, sometimes on the lawn nearby :) Every Wednesday
In Spring Quarter

12:00 - 1:00 PM

SciTrek Annual Lecture & 

Mentor Appreciation Event

PSY 1312

PSY 1312 Courtyard

Friday May 30th

Friday May 30th

12:30 - 1:45 PM

1:45 - 3:00 PM

SciTrek Middle School Summer Program PSBN 4606

Monday- Friday

8/4/25-8/15/25

10:00AM-2:00PM

 


 

SCITREK ANNUAL LECTURE

Every year SciTrek enlists an esteemed member of the science education community to host a lecture on the UCSB campus for students, faculty, local teachers, and community members. The past lectures have been presented by:

  • 2012: Bruce Alberts (Past editor of Science magazine, the premier science journal in the world)
  • 2013: Sean Carroll (Author of Remarkable Creatures )
  • 2014: Brian Reiser (writer of the Next Generation Science Standards)
  • 2015: Susan Singer (Past director of the division of undergraduate education at NSF)
  • 2016: Paul Relis with support from the Community Environmental Council (Author of Out of the Wasteland)
  • 2017: Bassam Shakhashiri (Author of five volumes of Chemical Demonstrations)
  • 2018: Marcia Linn (Specialist in integrating science and technology)
  • 2019: Mark Windschitl (Author of Ambitious Science Teaching)
  • 2021: Robert Brewer (Advocate for using scientific practices to promote social justice)
  • 2022: Penny Noyce (Author of Magnificent Minds)
  • 2023: Francis Su (Author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing)