This weekend, October 23 and 24, NIH will bring our science to the people at the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C. From 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 1,500 interactive exhibits and 75 stage shows will be held across four downtown DC locations on and near the National Mall. Details on the festival website, including a map.

Here's the lowdown on all of the exciting activities from NIH:

Special Stage Shows 

Saturday, Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. - A Winning Meal with the Biggest Loser Wilson Plaza Stage

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2:00 p.m. - Dr Francis Collins, Scientific Rockstar at National Mall Stage

Freedom Plaza - Booths 1500 through 1509

Saturday, October 23

• Infant Safe Sleep … How and Why
  
• Beating the Odds for Better Health
• Strawberry DNA Extraction and The Genetic Challenge
  
• Infrared Imaging: Seeing the Invisible and Video Games to Image-Guided Surgery
• More Than Meets the Eye
• Are You Smarter than a Rat?
  

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• Beating the Odds for Better Health
• DNA Bracelets  and The Genetic Challenge
• The NIH Brain Arcade
• It's a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing. Find out if your MP3 player puts your hearing at risk
• What's That S mell? A scratch and sniff exercise to test your sense of smell
• The Eye Examiner
• Supermodels of Science

National Mall - Tent NM-6 Booth 620

Saturday, October 23

• Games to Rewire the Brain - Autism and Games that Teach Facial Perception Skills
• Faces of Science videos
  
• The Cool Spot Carnival
• The Drunken Brain
• The NIH Brain Lobe-oratorium
• Ultrasound Backpack
• Family Tree of Genetic Traits
  
• Make a Difference in the World - Learn about Cancer
  
• When I Grow Up...
  
• Attack of the S. mutans 3-D game
  

Sunday, October 24

• Health Zones
• The Cool Spot Carnival
• The Drunken Brain
• Fooling the Brain
  
• Pack a Lunch with a Punch for Kids in Research
  
• Just Say Know: Drugs and the Brain
• We Can! Eat Right, Play More, and Push Away the Screen
• Safe Science the Cyber Way
  
• Rocket Kids - How Science Soars at NIH
  
• Attack of the S. mutans 3-D game

NIH Mini-Stage at Mall Tent, NM-6 Booth 620

Saturday, October 23

• What Are You Made Of? game show (10:00 a.m.)
• Who Wants to Be a Bioengineer? (12:00 p.m.)
• Just Say Know: Drugs and the Brain (2: 00 p.m.)
• Who Wants to be an NIH Scientist? game show (4:00 p.m.)

Sunday, October 24

• Toxic Adventures (10:00 a.m.)
• Meet Phineas Gage and Windows into the Brain (2:30 p.m.)
• Are You Smarter than a Genome Scientist? (4:00 p.m.)