The Tech Museum

Weekend Event Update

Get your last minute shopping done! You can get all your nerdtastic gifts at The Tech Store. Membership makes a great gift and it’s tax-deductible too! We also have gift certificates available online and at the ticket desk. Holiday Hat Trick is still going on. Don’t miss out on that great deal. You can also check out Christmas in the Park. Our last Christmas Myths show will be tomorrow night and we will have a booth in the park this weekend.

hollywoodwhispers:

The Tech Museum always throws awesome premiere night parties. The one for The Hobbit was no exception! If you live in the Bay Area, I highly recommend going to at least one. They even changed up some of their exhibits (like the blocks are usually in English— you input your name and a robot builds it). So much fun.

fyeahsanjose:

San Jose Tech Museum, “Science on a Roll” Ball Machine (by SpeersM5)

KQED Plus (Comcast 10 /710 HD) will air a 60-minute television show about The Tech Awards 2012 gala

Premiere: Monday, January 7 at 7 p.m.

Rebroadcasts
Tuesday, January 8 at 1 a.m.
Wednesday, January 9 at 11 p.m.
Thursday, January 10 at 5 a.m.
Sunday, February 10 at 7 p.m.
Monday, February 11 at 11 p.m.

“Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?”
- Bob Noyce

Free Public NRP Lecture: Dr. Dr. Peter Diamandis on “Abundance”, Dec. 3, Bldg. 3 Ballroom at 7 P.M.

On Monday, December 3, 2012, at 7 pm, Dr. Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, and co-founder of Singularity University (SU), will give a free, public lecture titled “Abundance”. The Lecture is part of the NRP Exploration Lecture Series.

Best-selling author, space entrepreneur, medical doctor and educational visionary — Diamandis will discuss the partnership between SU, ISU, X PRIZE and NASA; the use of technologies to shape the future of humankind and solve global problems; and the concepts of ‘abundance’ and persistence to achieve amazing results.

Lecture MC will be Dr. Robert Richards, Co-Founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc.

The one-hour talk will be followed by an interactive audience Q&A.

Diamandis will also sign copies of his books, which must be pre-purchased and brought to the talk by lecture attendees.

For more information:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/researchpark

Weekend Event Update

Spend your rainy day with us. Its a Bank of America weekend, which means that when you show your Bank of America card, you get 1 free museum admission to The Tech (does not include IMAX or MythBusters). We also have the Holiday Hat Trick! Enjoy skating at Downtown Ice ($15 value), and gain admission to the San Jose Museum of Art ($8 value) and The Tech ($15 value) for one price: $25! Want to check out MythBusters? The Holiday Hat Trick now has a MythBusters option.

Job Opportunity: Vice President of Education »

We need some great applicants! Please spread the word and help us find just the right person to fill this important position. We are grateful to the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation for making this position possible.

Happy Halloween! The staff here got into the spooky spirit. Check out the photos!

Photos from Mima la Scienza.

Bay Area students joined us for an international science pantomime.

Via a live-link to the Genoa Science Festival, our students connected with students in Italy. The students pantomimed science concepts to each other through live-link technology. While the students in Italy do the pantomiming, our Bay Area students will try to guess the science concepts – and vice versa, as they connect across the world through technology and overcome the language barrier with the universal language of science.

See all the photos on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/techmuseum/sets/72157631898838995/