Science Rocks - Jennifer Swanson

AASL Conference
2019-11-14 - 2019-11-16 | Kentucky International Convention Center, 221 S. 4th Street, 40202, United States
American Association of School Librarians Conference

NCTE Baltimore
2019-11-21 - 2019-11-24

Florida Gulf Coast University Literacy Festival
2020-01-31
The Florida Gulf Coast University College of Education Annual Literacy Festival is the only university-sponsored literacy festival in the state of Florida. Every year it connects children’s and young adult authors and illustrators with over 2000 students from regional Title I schools. The College of Education purchases participating authors’ books and distributes them regionally before the event. Every student receives a book! College of Education teacher candidates visit classrooms to study the participating authors and integrate their books into the curriculum across their disciplines. The day of the FGCU COE Literacy Festival features author book signings, interactive workshops with authors, digital literacy, and STREAM activities.

Amelia Island Book Festival
2020-02-15
Author Expo/Readers’ Extravaganza
Saturday, February 15, 10 am – 5 pm
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During the Expo, readers can engage with more than 100 authors of many genres in an up-close and personal way to learn about their work, what inspires them, purchase books and have them signed personally to you or your friends.
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In addition to the exhibiting authors, there are breakout sessions where you will hear presentations from this year’s lineup of New York Times best-selling authors, and then you can return to the Expo where they will be signing their books.
The Expo/Extravaganza also includes activities, incentives, prizes and other attractions. You can fill your Passport to Literacy with stamps from authors all around the Expo, and then turn it in to be eligible for prize drawings. The passports are designed to help readers circulate around exhibits and get the most out of the event. There is also a Kidz Zone to keep the young ones engaged.
All in all, you’ll find food, fun, and fabulous opportunities to enrich your life with books!
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FREE ADMISSION – FREE PARKING

Atlanta Science Festival
2020-03-07 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Fernbank Science Center, 156 Heaton Park Dr., Atlanta, 30307, United States
Full Dome, Half Price Space Spectacular
Cultivate your scientific curiosity at Fernbank Science Center during our Full Dome, Half Price Space Spectacular. Join Jennifer Swanson, the award-winning author of the children’s book Astronaut-Aquanaut, for an exciting, interactive presentation that will have you soaring into space or diving deep into the ocean. Enjoy the Planetarium’s 4K projection system with half-price shows. Explore our Exhibit Hall including the interactive Apollo Mission Control Exhibit, and engage in hands-on Earth and space science activities for all ages with connections to science, technology, and society. Program Presentation
Astronaut or Aquanaut?
In this corner, we have ASTRONAUT in the spacesuit! In this corner, we have AQUANAUT in the wetsuit! Who will be the ultimate explorer?!? Join Jennifer Swanson, author of children’s book Astronaut or Aquanaut, for a debate with interactive questions and help us compare and contrast the benefits of each extreme environment. This exciting event will have you soaring into space or diving deep into the ocean.
This program is best for children in first grade and older.

Atlanta Science Festival
2020-03-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Little Shop of Stories, 133A East Court Square, Decatur, 30030
Program Presentation:
Do you Have What it Takes to Be a HUMAN Crash-Test Dummy?
Cars take us to work, to school, to lots of places! Can you imagine a world without them? It’s not easy! And who do we have to thank for helping to make our cars safe? A crash-test dummy! Come join children’s book author Jennifer Swanson for a FUN and interactive trip through the history of car safety engineering and find out if YOU have what it takes to become a HUMAN crash-test dummy!

NSTA National Conference
2020-04-02 - 2020-04-05 | Boston Convention Center, 415 Summer St, Boston, MA, 02210, United States
Presenter

Lakeland Book Festival
2020-04-18 09:00 - 13:00 | Barnett Family Park, 730 E Orange St,, Lakeland, 33801
World of Reading
THE JUNIOR LEAGUE WILL BE HOSTING ITS ANNUAL WORLD OF READING FESTIVAL IN BARNETT PARK SATURDAY, APRIL 18 FROM 9:00 AM-1:00 PM.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT OPEN TO ALL FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF ALL AGES!
“Where will reading take you?” is the continued theme and spotlight book tents will be focused on the setting or topic of the books. The tents will endeavor to make its featured story come alive.
Each tent will feature a craft for the children to create and take home with them. Once each child has completed the tent activity and received a stamp on their passport, they will select a book (first come first serve) from the Spotlight Book Tent of their favorite book of the four tents and then also will select an AR book from the Junior League book area to take home for free! Children’s musical guru, Jack Hartmann, will perform at the event, along with face painting and balloon artists for even more family fun.
In addition to the activities and spotlight tent book giveaways, there will be two featured authors autographing and facilitating meet and greets at the event. Jaimie Engle, author of Clifton Chase and the Arrow of Light, and Jennifer Swanson, author of Astronaut Aquanaut How Space Science and Sea Science Interact, will be signing books and giving away free copies of their books to the first 700 participants! They will also each be reading from their books twice during the event

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-06-16
How Do You Compose Music that is as Big as the Universe?
Listen Weekly for interviews with Jennifer Swanson and a different scientist, engineer, artist or expert that has a really cool job where they solve problems.

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-06-23
How do you live in Space? with Cady Coleman, Astronaut
Listen Weekly for interviews with Jennifer Swanson and a different scientist, engineer, artist or expert that has a really cool job where they solve problems.

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-06-30
What Would You Bring to an Underwater Spaceship?
Listen Weekly for interviews with Jennifer Swanson and a different scientist, engineer, artist or expert that has a really cool job where they solve problems.

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-07-14
Interview with Dr. Darlene Lim, NASA Scientist
Topic: How Will We Communicate from Earth to Mars?

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-07-21
Interview with Dr. Gene Van Buren, Nuclear Physicist @ Brookhaven Laboratory
Topic: How Do You Measure Particles That Can’t be Seen?

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-07-28
Interview with Dr. Emily Swanson, Dentist
Topic: How Do You Build Teeth Out of Soap?

Solve It for Kids Podcast
2020-08-04
Interview with TeMika Grooms, Civil Engineer
Topic: How Do You Move a lot of Water from Where you Don’t Want it to Go to where you Do?

Presentation and Book Signing at the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Museum
2024-05-04 11:00 - 14:00
Spacesuits: Past, Present and Future https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/spacesuits-past-present-and-future

Hear from authors and join us for story time: Meet Jennifer Swanson, author of Spacecare: A Kid’s Guide to Surviving Space,

World Ocean Day at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History
2024-06-07 08:00 - 17:00
Join Jennifer Swanson as she conducts fascinating and fun interviews with SI scientists!
Learn cool facts, intriguing information, and ask lots of questions to engage your curiosity and explore the aquatic environment.

55th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Celebration at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library
2024-07-16 08:00 - 17:00
Join Jennifer Swanson as she presents her Astronaut-Aquanaut book event at this famed Presidential Library.
Find out the answer to this puzzling question–Would you rather be an astronaut or an aquanaut?

Atlas Obscura Event at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
2025-09-05 10:00 - 12:00
Join coauthor Dylan Thuras and I for tons of FUN activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on September 5th from 10am to 12pm

Up Periscope! Book Signing at the Library of Congress National Book Festival
2025-09-06 15:00 - 16:00
Stop by the Arkansas State booth to get your copy of Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding signed by illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison and ME from 3-4pm September 6, 2025.
