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Wonderfest is a nonprofit corporation founded in California dedicated to informal science education.
Wonderfest achieved full corporate independence in September 2011. During the prior fourteen years, Wonderfest used to be an educational project of, first, San Francisco University High School, and then, The Branson School. From 1998 to 2010, Wonderfest produced annual science festivals — the first such community-wide event in the United States — that presented a series of expert dialogues, based on topics of scientific controversy. The topics in these dialogues were varied, often covering astronomy, biology, psychology, physics, but also covering other categories. In 2011, this festival was supplanted by the Bay Area Science Festival, which was headquartered at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wonderfest, subtitled "The Bay Area Beacon of Science," is dedicated to the memory of Carl Sagan. From 2002 through 2010, and 2015-present, Wonderfest awarded the $5,000 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[1]
Wonderfest's founding director is Tucker Hiatt, a physics teacher and a former Stanford Visiting Scholar. The board of directors now guides its development:[2]
Jacob Bien -- Associate Professor of Statistics for University of Southern California
Jack Conte -- Musician, videographer and CEO of Patreon
Alexander Eccles -- Musician and composer
Alex Filippenko -- Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley
Maribel Fraser -- Emeritus Director of Information Technology for AT&T
Juliana Gallin -- Author and creator of 'Ask a Scientist'
Howard Rheingold -- Author and Educator
Kendra Kramlich -- Financial Planner and Science Enthusiast
Robert Strong -- Comedy Magician, San Francisco
Eric Yao -- Bioinformatician, Wonderfest Technical Director & Board Chair
Emeritus Board Members:
Eugenie Scott, Founding Director for National Center for Science Education
Richard Zare, Professor of Chemistry for Stanford University
^"Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
^"Directors". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
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