Young Minds Reach for the Stars at Science Festival More than
1,200 young students and their parents had a unique opportunity
to experience science in action during an event in the Bayview-
Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2011.
The festival was an opportunity for little girls and boys to
dream big about one day becoming an astronaut or a NASA rocket
scientist and inspire young minds in the areas of Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math. As part of its 10th
anniversary celebration, the Reachout for the Rainbow Science
Festival included many interactive exhibits from the Traveling
Space Museum, including a hovercraft powered by leaf blowers, a
space shuttle simulator and a space toilet. Students had an
opportunity to design their own space mission patch, launch
small rockets and operate lunar rover replicas. The San
Francisco Exploratorium and the Museum of African American
Technology (MAAT) Science Village contributed exhibits featuring
a historical perspective of African-American sc