April 25 – May 5: MSF Pop-up event:“City” Nature Challenge. Join us for the 2019 City Nature Challenge (CNC)! The Maine Science Festival has teamed up with Gulf of Maine Maine Education Association, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland Public Library, Bangor Land Trust, Girl Scouts of Maine, and Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve to be part of the worldwide challenge to observe and identify WILD organisms found in our “city” found at our iNaturalist page.
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April 10, 9:00am-5:00pm: 2019 Univesity of Maine Student Symposium Interact one-on-one with UMaine students as they present their research and creative work at the 2019 UMaine Student Symposium (UMSS19). Several hundred projects will be showcased through posters, exhibits, oral presentations and more. Maine’s Poet Laureate, Stuart Kestenbaum, will give this year’s keynote speech.
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April 25, 10:00am-2:00pm: BioMEStudnt Showcase, a life science research competition for high school and college students with attractive cash and academic prizes. Come meet the future bioscience workforce at the BioME Student Showcase! Learn about Maine high school and college students’ bioscience research projects with a potential of commercialization. This fun and creative competition offers plenty of valuable networking with scientists, researchers, biotech professionals, academia and entrepreneurial support representatives in Maine. Students will show off their passion for life science and present their research for a chance to win attractive cash and academic prizes. Coffee and lunch will be served during the event.
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April 13, 9:00am-3:00pm: Citizen Scence Day Free trainings for birds and biodiversity monitoring in celebration of Citizen Science Day. Free, but registration is required.
Moore Auditorium
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor
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April 18, 7:00pm: Science Lecture 