Sign Up to Be a Science Day Presenter, May 29th

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, community members, PHS and University students. 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: Friday, May 29, 2026

If you are able to participate you can help us keep organized we have created an online form 2026 Science Day Presenter Form. So that we can capture all of the information about your presentation and availability. 

Not a scientist?  Not a problem - You can still help by sharing this with a friend or neighbor who is and might want to present.  Additional volunteer sign up opportunity for event logistics will come closer to the big day.

Here are some examples of the presenters from previous year:

1) Kids feeding chickens as they learned about the science of raising them by Betsy Levy Paluck
2) Janine Giammanco demonstrating the chemistry of gases with different experiments including explosions of soda with mentos
3) Decoding secret messages between teachers in Paige Randall’s Cryptography presentation.
4) All the glitter germs that were shared among students during Sarah Tannenbaum’s immune system presentation.
5) Learning about pollinators in our National Parks with Tracy O’Toole and making seed bombs.
6) Chris Tully and Mr. Beck our bubbles presenters got happy cheers of kids loving getting into the huge kid sized bubbles!
7) Cate Pena showing kids how our brains adjust to what we see wearing different goggles as they tried to shake hands.
8) Michael Littman’s model T driving up onto the Riverside field and building with K-nex.
9) 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!
10) Kids laughing at the snow that Rose Kopf was able to create in the art room during Cryogenics Lab!
11) Kids looking into microscopes to view embryonic chickens, worms and cells from their own mouths with Ricardo Mallarino and his Princeton University students.
12) Children being programed as robots by Kelly Bennett.
13) Tom McParland explaining how bone cells are similar to tree cells so they can hold a lot of weight…. But if they twist – they break!
14) Having Jonathan Pillow show the kids illusions of the brain and how you can trick it to see colors even on a black and white picture.
15) Learning about microbes and the immune system 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!
16) Children lining up to touch ice from Antarctica retrieved by John Higgins.
17) Flying drones and learning about flight with a real helicopter pilot Jessica Parker.
18) Kids were impressed by another Riverside alumnus, Sarah Racowski, who takes care of birds at her house as one of her jobs as an studying ornithology.
19) Hearing the kids talk about how AI doesn’t understand feelings with Tom Griffiths and if it does your homework for you… AI learns but your brain doesn’t!
20) Learning from Princeton High School student researchers about their work studying flies, languages, salamanders and farming.