Experiencing Science Through Scribbling Robots and Spinning Tops

On October 4, 2025, students and faculty from the Science Education Department joined their peers from other departments in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics on for Science LIVE!—a public celebration of science and math.

Families from across Southern California came to learn and explore. Student volunteers from the Science Learning Center guided visitors through a variety of hands-on activities, while facilitators from the NSF-funded Mobile Making program helped kids and families design, build, test, and refine scribbling robots and simple spinning tops (which, as it turns out, aren’t so simple after all!).

Read more about the event: CSULB opens doors, minds at Science LIVE!

Event Photos

kids working with crafting materials
Kids designing, building, testing, and refining simple spinning tops using various crafting materials.
young child touching a plasma plate
Young child touching a plasma plate in the Science Learning Center.
teacher holding a snail as kid takes a photo
Student volunteer holding a snail as a young child examines the creature through a camera.
kids designing a scribbling robot
Young children designing, building, testing, and refining a scribbling robot.