The second annual Bay Area Science Festival, the region's largest educational event, culminated on Saturday, November 3rd, with Discovery Days at AT&T Park, after offering dozens of fun learning opportunities at various venues over the previous two weeks. The festival was produced by the Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) at UCSF and a core group of science institutions.
More than 30,000 people flooded the ball field to check out more than 150 booths enticing kids to make their own slime, or take their own DNA samples through cheek swabs and examine cells through a microscope. An entire gray whale skeleton was set up on the field that attendees could examine up close.
Among the many participating organizations was CTSI's Recruitment and Implementation Core (RIC) program, which provided a wide range of information to partipants about clinical trials and the value of being a clinical trial volunteer. RIC also manages the UCSF Research Participant Registry.
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