Cambridge Science Festival makes science fun for the public

I like to think that New England is small enough to allow for big events anywhere in the six states to be common knowledge in the other five. I mean, Connecticut is two hours end to end not counting the inevitable traffic on 95 or 91, and Rhode Island is only an hour. Nevertheless, I didn't find out until a few days ago that there's a decently-sized science festival in Cambridge every spring. It's basically a big happy STEM party for an entire week in April (the 18th to the 27th this year), and it sounds amazing.

MIT, the Museum of Science, and a bunch of other institutions in Boston dedicated to science host this event, which started in 2008 and was the first event of its kind in the US at the time. Activities at the event include topics such as science in Spanish, sound science, and the science carnival and robot zoo, which are features this year. A lot of local nonprofits are involved too, such as the Boys and Girls Club,  the multimedia studio NuVu, and the Women's Coding Collective, to get kids and adults alike interested in STEM. They also recruit local high schoolers to volunteer at the event, which is pretty cool.