Schedule &amp; Session Highlights

Growing a Healthy Future in School Gardens

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm • In Person

Shelves of cheeses feature dozens of varietals next to a Texas Science Festival graphic

Feb

21

2025

Science on Screen Presents: Shelf Life

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm • In Person

About a dozen children cheer as a fountain of soda shoots up out of a soda bottle in a scientific demo.

Feb

22

2025

Open House & Tour

2025 STEM Girl Day at UT Austin

11:00 am – 4:00 pm • In Person

Feb

23

2025

Open House & Tour

Texas Science & Natural History Museum H-E-B Free Fourth Sunday

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

A dancer in blue poses in a canoe in a body of water surrounded by tall rushes and reeds.

Feb

24

2025

aqueous: A PT2050 Performance

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm • In Person

People at a night event at McDonald Observatory

Feb

24

2025

Unlocking Mysteries of Space: Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm • In Person

Group of researchers looking at a robot about to pick up a box

Feb

25

2025

Teaching AI Literacy: AI and AI Ethics Across Disciplines

11:00 am – 12:00 pm • Virtual

Torrential rains pour off of a roof, overflowing the rain gutter.

Feb

25

2025

The Climate-Driven Home Insurance Crisis: A PT2050 Discussion

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

Seven pegs of differing colors sit in a circle

Feb

25

2025

Shattering Barriers with a Laser Focus: Three World-Changing Women in Physics

4:30 pm – 6:45 pm • In Person

A human hand and a robot hand type side-by-side on a laptop keyboard.

Feb

26

2025

If AI Can Write, Why Should We?

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm • Hybrid

A technician inspects one solar panel in a vast array of panels.

Feb

26

2025

A.I. and the Clean Energy Revolution: A PT2050 Panel and Networking Event

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm • In Person

The T-Rex skeleton in a dimly lit museum.

Feb

26

2025

Night at the Museum

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm • In Person

Mars, the red planet, features a rocky and cold hill-like surface, and a Texas Science Festival graphic helps frame it

Feb

26

2025

Mars Livestream

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm • Virtual

Feb

27

2025

Creating Constellations of Change with Students and Teachers: A PT2050 Showcase

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm • In Person

Representation of neural connections in the brain

Feb

27

2025

Memory Matters: Learning Throughout the Lifespan

5:30 pm – 8:30 pm • In Person

Feb

27

2025

Musical Memories: An Evening of Music & Science

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm • In Person

G299 was left over by a particular class of supernovas called Type Ia. (photo credit: NASA/CXC/U.Texas)

Feb

27

2025

Cataclysms to Cosmos: Supernovae, the Universe & Extreme Physics

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm • In Person

Wings spread, a bee forages and pollinates the center of a flower, while a graphic reads Texas Science Festival 2025

Feb

27

2025

Buzzworthy Behaviors & the Sting of Human Stressors

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm • Hybrid

Feb

27

2025

No Shortcuts to the Top: Nutrition and Science on the World’s Highest Mountains

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm • In Person

aerial view of the marine science institute

Feb

27

2025

The Historic Corpus Christi Pass

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm • Hybrid

A couple sit, laughing, on a couch together in a windowed room across from a woman with a clipboard whose back is to the camera.

Feb

27

2025

Nerd Nite: Relatable!

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm • Hybrid

A brain scan side-by-side with a digital blueprint

Feb

28

2025

The Aging Brain & Digital Technologies

11:30 am – 1:00 pm • Hybrid

Feb

28

2025

Open House & Tour

The Science of Modern and Contemporary Public Art Preservation: A Walking Tour

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm • In Person

Two chimpanzees sit next to each other in a patch of grass next to a body of water.

Feb

28

2025

Love and War: What We Can Learn from Chimpanzees

5:30 pm – 8:30 pm • In Person

What Now is written in an all-caps font with many arrows against a backdrop of a person looking at wayfinding alongside the words TEDXUTAustin and a Texas Science Festival graphic

Mar

1

2025

TEDxUTAustin 2025: What Now?

9:00 am – 4:00 pm • In Person

Artist's rendering of a giant exoplanet causing small bodies to collide in a disk of dust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mar

1

2025

The Evolution of Planetary Systems Across Time and Space

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm • Virtual

A group of young people sit around a table at an outside cafe having a lively conversation

Mar

1

2025

Science Communicators Happy Hour

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm • In Person

Mar

1

2025

Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm • In Person

Mar

2

2025

Learning, Sharing, Adapting with Plants

11:30 am – 3:00 pm • In Person

Three members of the Barton Springs Edwardsa Aquifer Conservation District use equipment to monitor the water as members of the public play in the water in the distance.

Mar

3

2025

Guardians of Our Water

6:00 pm – 7:15 pm • Virtual

Mar

4

2025

AI x Robotics Research Symposium: Day 1

8:30 am – 6:30 pm • In Person

A group of students in Texas Science shirts smile for the camera and show the hook 'em horns sign

Mar

4

2025

Recruitment, Outreach and Student Life in Texas Science

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm • Hybrid

Mar

4

2025

Physics on the Rocks: Accessible Science Talks

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm • In Person

Mar

5

2025

AI x Robotics Research Symposium: Day 2

8:30 am – 5:30 pm • In Person

Mar

6

2025