Girls in STEM Day
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 12–4 pm
Add to calendar
2025-03-22 12:00:00
2025-03-22 12:00:00
Event – Girls in STEM Day
La Brea Tar Pits
nhmla
webmaster@nhm.org
America/Los_Angeles
public
Date
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 12–4 pm
Location
La Brea Tar Pits
Tickets
Free with Museum Admission
Free for Members
Free for Members
Girls in STEM Day
This one-day outdoor/indoor event is an opportunity for girls ages 8-18 to participate in STEM activities, meet STEM professionals, and explore future career paths in a fun and engaging way! Come on over to La Brea Tar Pits to be a part of this exciting STEM celebration! The Girls in STEM Day celebration will include:
Fun Activities
- Welcome Table: Learn more about the program, pick up a scavenger hunt, and grab a Girls in STEM sticker.
- Live Music: Listen to DJ Wenluv spinning music on the Great Lawn!
- Photo Booth: Take a free picture in the Girls in STEM photo booth!
- Raffles: Participate in regular giveaways of exciting, fun, and educational gifts before each stage presentation!
- Research & Collections Tables: Meet scientists from the Natural History Museum and La Brea Tar Pits and get up close to some amazing items from the Museum's collections!
- Museum Educator Tarpits Tour: Take an outdoor walking excavator tour to learn all about the history of the Tar Pits and the specimens discovered here.
- Hands-on Activities: Get crafty and explore your inner artist with some hands-on activities.
- La Brea Tar Pits Mobile Museum: Take a peek inside La Brea Tar Pits’ Mobile Museum and discover Ice Age Los Angeles, fossils, and more!
- Food Trucks: Enjoy a lineup of food trucks with different food options, from sweet to savory, and then picnic on the Great Lawn. Be sure to bring a blanket!!
STEMinist Fair | Great Lawn
Meet and interact with local STEM-based organizations:
- Audubon Center at Debs Park
- CSULB Shark Lab
- Graduate Society of Women Engineers at UCLA
- Girls in STEM Club at Columbia Memorial Space Center
- LADWP
- L.A. Zoo
- Marine Mammal Care Center
- Mobile Museums
- Pasadena Humane
- Two Bit Circus Foundation
- USC Paleosciences
Women In STEM Stage | La Brea Tar Pits Museum
(by The Columbian Mammoth exhibit)
Come and listen to inspiring conversations with STEM professionals who have all taken different journeys to arrive where they are today!
Full lineup:
- 12:30pm | For the Love of Animals - Slither in and take a seat for a peek into the science of Animal Husbandry with our Senior Manager of Living Collections, Leslie Gordon, accompanied by one of the animals in her collection!
- 1:30pm | Storytime with Joyce Uglow author of Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits- Come on over and get “stuck” with Joyce as she reads from her new book about the Tar Pits!
- 2:30pm | Women in STEM Panel - Join us in conversation with our very own scientists as they share their journey and pathways into science.