Urban Cycling Basics Workshops!
1:00 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM
* Finding the right kind of bike
* Route planning
* Safety equipment, including lights and a helmet
* Locking properly
* Transporting small loads or children by bike
* Multi-modal commuting
* Rules of the road and safety tips.
All participants in the bike workshops get a free helmet!
Registration is not required by helpful. Please email jlawrence@cambridgema.gov to register.
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Come see energy turn into action with a bike light machine and learn what solar power might look like on your home.
CDD Housing Division
Build a City Block! What does residential density look like? Want to see more affordable housing in Cambridge? Using an interactive game called Cambridge Streets, participants can design a city block to visualize different considerations and trade-offs when building different types of housing, creating open space and transportation options for all users.
Cambridge GIS
Create a Cambridge Map
Cambridge Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will provide the map layers and you use them to make a map of Cambridge. Learn how simple data can be combined to make a map showing neighborhoods, parks, water bodies, and more!
Water Department
Have a fresh pour of Fresh Pond!
Did you know that Cambridge has a reservoir and waterworks system separate from Greater Boston? Find out what it takes to protect the reservoir and how we go from natural water to high-quality drinking water with the Cambridge Water Department.
Mystic River Watershed Association
Why does the Cambridge DPW perform all of this work to improve water quality?
Learn about the water quality and amazing fish migration happening in local waterways. The Mystic River Watershed Association is managing a citizen science effort to document the largest river herring migration in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Come to our table and be a part of this effort to document, measure, analyze and better understand this local fish migration. Promise you will be amazed.
Department of Public Works & Conservation Commission
We all live in a watershed!
Do you know your watershed? Learn where rain goes after it rains and how you can help it get back to its roots and stay clean along the way.
Traffic, Parking and Transportation
The Science of Traffic Signals
TP&T will discuss and present Synchro, a modelling software used to design signal timing and phasing. Put in your own ideas and see how signals, cycle lengths, and the Flash Don’t Walk time for pedestrians change based on your input. Ever wondered what those green pavement markings are? We’ll tell you all about it! Finally, learn about Vision Zero and how you can do your part.
Want to hear your voice the next time you walk through the crosswalk? Stop by as we raffle off the recording for an Accessible Pedestrian Signal!
Cambridge Recycling Division
Your Lunch: Hot Air or Clean Power?
Trash or compost? A choice that seals a leftover’s destiny. Find out what happens to the methane gas food emits when it is trapped in a landfill versus when it is captured in an anaerobic digester.
Environmental and Transportation Planning Division
Glocal Challenge!
Come and listen to our youth entrepreneurs and interns pitch their ideas for how to improve the transportation system in Cambridge. Give them your feedback, ideas, and innovations and help them towards implementation of the transportation projects this summer 2018.
Cambridge Sustainability Dashboard!
Join us for a fun scavenger hunt and learn all about sustainability data in Cambridge!
Cambridge Public Library
Exploring Virtual Reality with the Cambridge Public Library
Come learn about Virtual Reality and 3D technology with librarians from the Cambridge Public Library!
Cambridge Open Data
Embark on a data scavenger hunt!
Data informs nearly everything we do in the City of Cambridge. Join us for a scavenger hunt through Cambridge's open data portal. Learn how to find data about the environment, traffic, housing, and all the other topics at the science fair!
Public Safety (Police, 911, Fire, Pro EMS, Animal Control)
Emergency Phone Call “Ride Along”
Come along with us as we follow a call from the time it comes into the Emergency Communications Center to the time it is dispatched. Watch in real time and see what the outcome could be!
Lectures
All lectures take place in the Sullivan Chambers on the second floor of City Hall.
Urban Rain Gardens
12:00 – 1:00 PM
New England Wild Flower Society & Conservation Commission
Anna Fialkoff, Horticulturist
By cleaning, cooling, and slowing runoff before it pollutes water bodies, rain gardens can play a significant role in urban and suburban areas. Learn how rain gardens work, how you can create low-tech and effective rain gardens, and which durable plants can fill them.
Home Performance Workshop
1:00 – 1:15 PM
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Learn how to make your winters warmer, your summers cooler, and your energy bills lower! Find out what a home energy assessment could do for you. Q&A session to follow outside of the Chambers.
Public Safety Q&A
1:15 - 1:45 PM
Join the Cambridge Public Safety Team and get your safety questions answered!
Solar Workshop
1:45 – 2:00 PM
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Learn how to save money and energy by going solar in Cambridge and beyond. Q&A session to follow outside of the Chambers.
Composting in Cambridge
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Department of Public Works Recycling Division
In 2014, Cambridge launched curbside composting for the Monday trash and recycling collection route. During the pilot program, we collected over 800 tons of food scraps! We are excited to bring curbside composting citywide in April as we work together to reach our goal of reducing trash 30% by 2020. Recycling Director, Michael Orr, will talk about how curbside composting developed in Cambridge, how the program works, and how our food scraps are no longer emitting greenhouse gases in landfills but instead creating clean energy and fertilizer!
Get Rid of it Right!
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Department of Public Works Recycling Division
The new “Get Rid of It Right” Tool, featured on the Department of Public Works’ Recycling Division website at
www.CambridgeMA.gov/Recycle, is a quick and easy way to determine how to get rid of unwanted items in your home.
Learn more about the Cambridge Science Festival here: www.CambridgeScienceFestival.org