Activate your intellect with an Academy lecture, workshop, or class.
Mind-expanding talks and presentations by the brightest stars in the field of astronomy.
The Academy regularly brings brilliant speakers to the Academy to lecture on everything from anthropology to zoology.
We host in-person workshops at our museum in San Francisco, as well as virtual PD on Zoom.
Deepen your connection to the natural world with an Academy science class.
Upcoming
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Mon. Oct. 2nd at 7:30 pm -
Planetarium
Stanford's Dr. Susan Clark explains how magnetic forces sculpt the structure of the stuff between the stars!
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Sat. Oct. 14th at 9:30 am
Explore science notebooking as a tool for environmental learning.
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Mon. Nov. 13th at 7:30 pm -
Planetarium
Where do the heaviest elements come from? It's a little more complicated than we once thought.
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Sat. Dec. 2nd at 9:00 am -
Classroom
Experience phenomenon-based learning, and gain strategies to anchor science learning in real-world phenomena.
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Mon. Dec. 4th at 7:30 pm -
Planetarium
Carl Fields describes how computational simulations help understand processes occurring inside massive stars.
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Mon. Feb. 5th at 7:30 pm -
Planetarium
JWST has discovered that the first galaxies formed stars earlier and more rapidly than expected.