Science Day is an amazing day full of thoughtful, insightful and creative exposures to the many different areas of science as presented by our local expert parents and community members. The day is scheduled with a series of presentations lasting 20 minutes for each class.  Presenters introduce a concept or topic in science through an activity, experiment or discussion with students grades kindergarten - 5th. The presenter remains at their location and the classes rotate with 5-minute breaks in between each session. 

Every year we have a range of topics some examples are: microscopes, the microbiome, rockets, astronomy, DNA, chemistry, the human brain and health

Science Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Rain Date: Friday, May 30, 2025

If you are able to participate you can help us keep organized we have created an online form 2025 Science Day Presenter Form. So that we can capture all of the information about your presentation and availability.

Here are some examples of the presenters from last year:

• Janine Giammanco demonstrating the chemistry of gases with different experiments including explosions of soda with mentos!
• The preK was very excited to learn about all the power in potatoes at the power of food presentation by Sarah Piasecki.
• Decoding secret messages between teachers in Paige Randall’s Cryptography presentation.
• All the glitter germs that were shared among students during Sarah Tannenbaum’s immune system presentation.
• The kids designated at “threats” tagging out kid who were the migrating birds in Tracy O’Toole’s National Park’s migration presentation.
• Chris Tully training Mr. Beck our bubbles presenters got happy cheers of kids loving getting into the huge kid sized bubbles!
• Cate Pena showing kids how to crunch up all that brain to fit into a skull
• Michael Littman’s model T driving up onto the Riverside field for a discussion on engines and combustion.
• Kids not wanting to move onto the next station in Jo Dunkley’s Light and Astronomy presentation because they loved the one they were at!
• Kids laughing at the snow that Rose Kopf was able to create in the art room during Cryogenics Lab!
• The amazing microscope view of an embryonic chicken in Ricardo Mallarino’s how to build an animal session.
• The kindergarten class protecting their classmate through herd immunity during Kelly Bennett’s public health presentation.
• DNA discussions with students who were able to see it after extracting it from a Strawberry in Brinda Prasad’s session.
• Kids loved the lasers in Gerard Wysocki’s presentation about optics!
• Mark Eastburn holding a snake and then guiding his high school students who presented their robotics research.
• Casey Lew-Williams co-presenting with his son Dane (a Riverside alumnus) about how the brain pays attention… or doesn’t
• Learning about microbes from Laurence Menard and Modupe Coker what they look like, all the environments we can find them in nature, our bodies and in our houses, how they work and get all over the place!
• Sayma Hai’s building a pumping heart with ballons, straws and colored water.
• Alka Mattoo’s demonstration of colors and their behavior in milk.
• A new presentation on hydroponics from the Princeton Middle School Green team – Mr. Brickey and his student Patrick, a Riverside alumnus.
• Kids were impressed by another Riverside alumnus, Sarah Racowski, who takes care of birds at her house as one of her jobs as an undergraduate studying ornithology.