Much of the USA Science and Engineering Festival (Oct. 10 – 24, 2010) appears to be taking place in Washington, DC accompanied by a number of satellite events  across the United States. (The festival was first mentioned in my March 4, 2010 posting.) This reminds me a little of Canada’s Science and Technology Week (Oct. 15-24, 2010) as they take place at roughly the same time and both are being run nationally with a strong focus on events in the countries’ respective capital regions.

The Pasco Phronesis (David Bruggeman) blog  extols (spelling error corrected Oct.13, 2010) the USA festival’s virtues and features a couple of videos in an October 10, 2010 posting,

While events on the National Mall will take place on the 23rd and 24th, the first (hopefully annual?) USA Science and Engineering Festival officially starts later today with a performance of “Powers of Ten” at the University of Maryland (located in the D.C. suburbs). (Event is currently fully booked, but you can try and catch any last minute releases at the hall.) The event has been in the works for months, and I think it will end up being bigger (at least in scale if not in attendance) than I anticipated. Excellent.

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Things to look forward to at the Expo [in Washington, DC, Oct. 23-24, 2010]: history, lots of science music (but no Baba Brinkman? Someone dropped the ball), some science comedy, and plenty of demonstrations. It even looks like National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins will play his guitar.

You can check out the festival details here.