Cal Day
/Cal Day, U.C. Berkeley’s annual open house extravaganza is on Saturday, April 21st, 9am-5pm. Every year, the university opens its lecture halls, research labs, museums, sports fields, libraries, galleries and gardens FREE to the public. Students and faculty showcase the many departments and clubs with a wide range of AWESOME kid-friendly activities.
Helpful Tips:
- With over 300 unique events scheduled and large crowds, Cal Day can be overwhelming. Advance planning will save your time and sanity and make the day really special. There are so many great options but do not expect to do it all. Think about your child’s interests, attention span and mobility; then check out the Cal Day website to plan your day.
- Parking is free for the day at the lots on campus. Metered street parking is enforced and there are privately owned lots near campus.
- U.C. Berkeley is a big campus so take advantage of the free transportation. There are free Cable Car Campus Tours (also available in Mandarin and Spanish), Campus Perimeter Buses and Hill Shuttles (to the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Botanical Garden, Samuel L. Silver Space Sciences Laboratory, and Strawberry Canyon Recreation Area which leaves every 15 minutes from Evans Hall.) They are worth waiting in line for and a fun way to see the area.
- Avoid the row of booths as you enter the university through Sather Gate. It is very crowded and geared for incoming and current students.
- It can get quite hot so don’t forget the sunscreen and water.
- Food trucks will be available on campus and serve delicious food.
On your mark, get set, Go Bears!
Follow the trail of little Bears to discover exciting events for kids and families.
8:00 AM
Cal Café
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Alumni House
9:00 AM
The Beauty and Joy of Binary Numbers
9:00-10:00 am
306 Soda Hall
Artist Books, Pop-Up Books and Coloring!
9:00 am-12:00 pm
210 Wurster Hall
Mega Mammals and their Mega Impact
9:00 am-12:00 pm
1101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Kids, Build a Box City!
9:00 am-2:00 pm
Wurster Hall, 1st floor lobby
Ask the Mathematician
9:00 am-3:00 pm
1015 Evans Hall
Doe Library $1 Book Sale
9:00 am-3:00 pm
303 Doe Library
LEaD Lights
9:00 am-3:00 pm
250 Sutardja Dai Hall
Rocks of the Greater Bay Area and the Stories They Tell
9:00 am-3:00 pm
McCone Hall, entrance & lobby
SuperFUN Research Program
9:00 am-3:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, south lawn
Portable Planetarium Shows
9:00 am-3:30 pm
131 Campbell Hall
Solar Viewing
9:00 am-3:30 pm
Hearst Mining Circle
T. rex and Friends
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Wallace Atrium, 1st floor Valley Life Sciences Building
AmphibiaWeb: Global Amphibian Conservation, Biology and Diversity
9:00 am-4:00 pm
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building (3rd floor atrium)
Ask a Linguist!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
52 Dwinelle Hall
Blake Garden Open House
9:00 am-4:00 pm
70 Rincon Rd. (Kensington) Blake Garden
Design a Tower
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, south lawn
Fiat Lux: Bright Ideas in Integrative Biology
9:00 am-4:00 pm
3083 Valley Life Sciences Building
Insects and Spiders from Around the World
9:00 am-4:00 pm
3003 Valley Life Sciences Building
McCone Hall Rocks!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
McCone Hall, 1st and 3rd floors
McConeHenge!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
McCone Hall, entrance & lobby
Natural History—Up Close!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, courtyard
Passport to Science at Cal!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, south lawn
Science Bonanza!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, south lawn
Tour Doe and Moffitt Libraries and Gardner Stacks
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Doe Library, north entrance, or Moffitt Library, south entrance
UC Berkeley Library Passport Adventure!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Doe Library, north entrance, or Moffitt Library, south entrance
UC Botanical Garden—On Campus!
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, south lawn
UC Natural Reserves and Field Stations
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, courtyard
University & Jepson Herbaria Open House
9:00 am-4:00 pm
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building
Visit Morrison Library
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Doe Library, Morrison Reading Room
Berkeley Arts + Design Tour
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Various locations; begins at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, 2530 Ridge Road
Open House: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
9:00 am-5:00 pm
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
UC Botanical Garden: Plants of the World
9:00 am-5:00 pm
UC Botanical Garden (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
9:30 AM
Preparing for College: The Middle School Years
9:30-11:00 am
145 Dwinelle Hall
Nuclear Engineering Open House
9:30 am-3:00 pm
Etcheverry Hall-Soda Hall Breezeway
Bones and their Stories
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
Cave and Rock Art Painting
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
Dig like an Archaeologist!
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
Paleoethnobotany: Ancient Plants and the People Who Used Them
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
Play with Clay
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
Putting the Pieces Back Together: Ceramic Reconstruction
9:30 am-4:00 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave.
10:00 AM
Deep Look with KQED Science
10:00-11:00 am
2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Fun with Physics
10:00-11:00 am
1 LeConte Hall
UCBUGG Animation Shorts: A Decade of Great Animation and Imagery
10:00-11:30 am
306 Soda Hall
Discover Moffitt Library! Makerspace Demos, Digital Scholarship, and Self-Guided Tours
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Moffitt Library, 4th Floor
EECS Mechatronics
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Cory Hall, 3rd floor
Fun with Fossils
10:00 am-12:00 pm
3007 Valley Life Sciences Building
Shake it to the Core!
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Structures Lab, 2nd floor Davis Hall
CITRIS High-Definition Time-Lapse Project
10:00 am-1:00 pm
345 The Tech Museum Sutardja Dai Hall
GamesCrafters
10:00 am-1:00 pm
341 Soda Hall
Robot Learning Lab: A Robot that High-Fives and Hugs!
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Sutardja Dai Hall
CITRIS Invention Lab: Makerspace Tours and Demos
10:00 am-2:00 pm
141 Sutardja Dai Hall
Explore the CITRIS Tech Museum
10:00 am-2:00 pm
345 Sutardja Dai Hall, The Tech Museum
Hands-On Ocean Science Fun!
10:00 am-2:00 pm
McCone Hall, entrance & lobby
Hands-On Physics Exhibits
10:00 am-2:00 pm
245 & 248 LeConte Hall
The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation: Designing the Future
10:00 am-2:00 pm
110 and 120 Jacobs Hall
CalSol X Supernode
10:00 am-3:00 pm
246 Cory Hall
HKN Workshop: Fun with Microcontrollers
10:00 am-3:00 pm
140 Cory Hall
Kids Zone Sponsored by ASUC and Alpha Phi Omega
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Lower Sproul Plaza
Live Kelp Forest Organisms with Touch Tank
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, courtyard
Mapping off the Plane: Bird's-Eye-View Maps and More
10:00 am-3:00 pm
50 McCone Hall
Mathematics Undergraduate Student Association
10:00 am-3:00 pm
1015 Evans Hall
Physics-Astronomy Library
10:00 am-3:00 pm
351 LeConte Hall
Science Gets Graphic: Cartoons, Comics and Graphic Novels in the Sciences
10:00 am-3:00 pm
100 Evans Hall, Mathematics Statistics Library
Showtime on Sproul Plaza
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Sproul Plaza
Student Organizations in Engineering
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Engineering Student Services Patio, 230 Bechtel Engineering Center
Supernode Tour
10:00 am-3:00 pm
246 Cory Hall
Welcome to Oskiland!
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Memorial Glade
Astronomy Demonstrations and Hands-On Activities
10:00 am-3:30 pm
121 Campbell Hall
"Sustaining Grandeur": The First 100 Years of Save the Redwoods League
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Bancroft Library Gallery
Celebrating Social Justice at the Ethnic Studies Library
10:00 am-4:00 pm
30 Stephens Hall
Earthquake!
10:00 am-4:00 pm
220 McCone Hall
The Ant Lab
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, courtyard
Virtual Reality at Kresge Engineering Library
10:00 am-4:00 pm
Kresge Engineering Library, 110 Bechtel Engineering Center
"B" is for Bear Pride
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
"Science as Art" Exhibition
10:00 am-5:00 pm
100 Hildebrand Hall
Design Quest
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
ICON Satellite Mission
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
Science on a Sphere® Explorations
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
"Face to Face": Looking at Objects That Look at You
10:00 am-6:00 pm
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Exploring 3-D Collections and Immersive Visualization
10:00 am-6:00 pm
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
10:30 AM
University & Jepson Herbaria Tours
10:30-11:00 am
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building
Como Prepararse Para la Universidad
10:30 am-12:00 pm
102 Wheeler Hall
Critter Corner
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
11:00 AM
De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association Dance Performance
11:00-11:45 am
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Look Like a Viking: Make Your Own Chainmail!
11:00 am-12:00 pm
126 Dwinelle Annex
Medical Devices: A Hands-On Demo
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Stanley Hall Atrium, 1st floor
Predators and their Prey in Ancient Oceans
11:00 am-12:00 pm
2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Reptile Dissection at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
11:00 am-12:00 pm
3095 Valley Life Sciences Building
Preparing for College: The High School Years
11:00 am-12:30 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall
Data Science Open House
11:00 am-2:00 pm
190 Doe Library
Eco-Origami
11:00 am-2:00 pm
Valley Life Sciences Building, courtyard
Explore the World through Statistics and Probability
11:00 am-2:00 pm
1011 Evans Hall
Beach Volleyball Big Spike Picnic
11:00 am-3:00 pm
Clark Kerr Sand Volleyball Courts
Garden Discovery Stations: Newts and Butterflies
11:00 am-3:00 pm
UC Botanical Garden (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
Ingenuity Lab: Artbots
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
11:30 AM
Computer Animation: Short-Film Production from Start to Finish
11:30 am-12:00 pm
306 Soda Hall
Berkeley Food Institute
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
Explore Student Organizations in the College of Natural Resources
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
Fun Lab Experiments with Plant and Microbial Biology Faculty
11:30 am-1:30 pm
208 Koshland Hall
Ice Nucleation Magic Show and Free Snow Cones
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
The Bug Doctor and the Entomology Club Bring out the Bugs!
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
The Millet Project: Drought-Tolerant and Gluten-Free Grains
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
The Student Environmental Resource Center
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
Tour the Teaching Kitchen, and Snack with Us!
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
Washed Out in Mo'orea, French Polynesia
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
12:00 PM
Cal Spirit Rally
12:00-1:00 pm
Sproul Plaza, Mario Savio Steps
Make Your Own Heart Baskets
12:00-1:00 pm
126 Dwinelle Annex
Spotlight on the College of Natural Resources
12:00-1:00 pm
Information Marketplace
PiE Robotics Demonstration
12:00-2:00 pm
247 Cory Hall
Ask a Materials Scientist!
12:00-4:00 pm
Hearst Memorial Mining Building, lobby
Explore the Universe
12:00-4:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
Materials Discovery
12:00-4:00 pm
Hearst Memorial Mining Building, lobby
12:30 PM
Fun with Physics
12:30-1:30 pm
1 LeConte Hall
The Music Connection: Instrument Petting Zoo
12:30-2:30 pm
128 Morrison Hall
1:00 PM
Financing a College Education
1:00-2:00 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Is the College of Chemistry Right for You?
1:00-2:00 pm
1 Pimentel Hall
Guided Tour of Campus Tree Trail
1:00-2:00 pm
Genetics & Plant Biology Lawn
Math Games and Prizes
1:00-2:00 pm
3119 Etcheverry Hall
Spotlight on the College of Natural Resources
1:00-2:00 pm
Information Marketplace
Fun with Fossils
1:00-3:00 pm
3007 Valley Life Sciences Building
Hands-On Exploration in 3-D Bioprinting
1:00-3:00 pm
Stanley Hall Atrium, 1st floor
Mega Mammals and their Mega Impact
1:00-4:00 pm
1101 Valley Life Sciences Building
1:30 PM
The Physics and Materials Science of Skateboarding
1:30-2:00 pm
390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
University & Jepson Herbaria Tours
1:30-2:00 pm
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building
Cellscope Hands-On Demo: Taking Imaging to New Places
1:30-3:00 pm
Stanley Hall Atrium, 1st floor
Make a New Friend in the Animal Discovery Room
1:30-4:00 pm
Lawrence Hall of Science (take Hill Shuttle from Evans Hall east entrance)
2:00 PM
The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Earth's Tectonic Plates
2:00-2:30 pm
141 McCone Hall
Nimely Pan African Dance Company Performance
2:00-2:45 pm
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Cal History, Spirit and Traditions
2:00-3:00 pm
102 Wurster Hall
Nuclear Technology Innovation Laboratory Tour
2:00-3:00 pm
3107 Etcheverry Hall
Tour of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies
2:00-3:00 pm
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
2:30 PM
Indigenous Voices and Petroglyph Rock Art at Lava Beds National Monument
2:30-3:15 pm
101 Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building (next to Boalt Hall)
8:00 PM
Star Wars, Jaws, Harry Potter, E.T. and More: Boston Pops Plays the Music of John Williams
8:00-9:30 pm
Hearst Greek Theatre
Introduce your family to the wide world of Berkeley. Watch dancers move and groove, hear the boom of the Cal band, hug a robot and get some hands-on science experience. Cal Day will light up their minds. No advance registration is required to attend Cal Day – just show up!
Cal Day is on Saturday, April 21st, 9am-5pm, at the University of California at Berkeley and perfect for all ages. Get there early to take advantage to the wonderful kid-friendly opportunities to experience anything from archaeology to zoology. There is really something for everyone on Cal Day.
