PTA Council of PUSD

PUSD PTA Members! Please join us at our upcoming PTA Council of PUSD Association meeting for our annual elections. Pasadena Unified School District John Muir High School Early College Magnet

See you today! 12-4 pm free and open to the community.

PUSD Science Fest 2026 wouldn’t exist without the people who believed in it first.
Today, hundreds of Pasadena students, families, and community members will walk through the doors of John Muir High School and experienced something genuinely remarkable, a living laboratory built right here in our own neighborhood, powered by world-class science and a community that refuses to stop investing in its young people.
That doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because of people and organizations who put their name, their resources, and their heart behind a vision. So today, we want to take a moment to say thank you and mean it.

PRESENTED BY
Thank you to Pasadena LEARNs Expanded Learning Program — Leading Educational Achievement and Revitalizing Neighborhoods. You are the backbone of what we do and why we do it.
🔗 www.pusd.us/departments/expanded-learning-programs/pasadenalearns-expanded-learning-program

SPONSORED BY
Thank you to Pasadena Water & Power Department for your ongoing commitment to science education and environmental awareness in our community. Your support makes a direct difference in the lives of Pasadena students.
🔗 pwp.cityofpasadena.net

EXPERIMENT SPONSORS
Thank you to AAUW Pasadena Inc. (CA Branch) for championing equity in education and supporting hands-on science experiences for all students — especially young women in STEM.
🔗 pasadena-ca.aauw.net

Thank you to The Parsons Real Estate Team Keller Williams Realty Pasadena for investing in the next generation of Pasadena’s leaders and innovators. Your support goes far beyond real estate — it reaches into our classrooms, our schools, and our kids’ futures.
🔗 www.soldbyparsons.com

FRIENDS OF SCIENCE & IN-KIND DONORS
Thank you to Kidspace Children’s Museum for your tireless dedication to curiosity, play, and learning in the greater Pasadena community.
🔗 www.kidspace.org

Thank you to Creative Love Publishing for supporting the voices and stories of young learners everywhere.
🔗 creativelovepublishing.com

TO EVERY VOLUNTEER, EVERY PTA, AND EVERY PERSON WHO SHOWED UP
This event is the sum of countless hours that no one sees, the planning meetings, the setup at sunrise, the families who drove across town, the teachers who spread the word, and the students who showed up curious and left inspired.

To every volunteer who gave their Saturday: thank you. You are the reason this works.
To every PTA across Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre, all 21 of you, thank you. What you do every single day in your schools, your communities, and for your families is extraordinary. Events like today are only possible because of the foundation you build all year long. You are the heart of this district.

THANK YOU TO JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL John Muir High School opened its doors, its campus, and its community to us today, and we are so grateful.

This is what community looks like. We are so proud of all of you.

With deep gratitude,
The PUSD Science Fest Team
Hosted by the PTA Council of PUSD
🔗 www.ptacouncilpusd.org
🔗 www.pusdsciencefest.org

TODAY is the day, Pasadena! PUSD Science Fest 2026 is here and it’s completely free and open to everyone. Over 50 vendors, Interactive Science, Talks, Food, Fun, and Reptiles

This afternoon, John Muir High School Early College Magnet becomes something extraordinary: a living laboratory where world-class institutions stand side by side with our students, our families, and our neighbors. Carnegie Observatories. Caltech. JPL. And so many more — all here, all day, all for our community.

PUSD Science Fest exists to do something powerful: to show our young people that science isn’t just something that happens in textbooks. It happens here. In Pasadena. In our schools. In our neighborhoods. And it’s being done by people who look like them, think like them, and grew up in communities like ours.

This is an extravaganza of Science, Technology, Engineering, Robotics, Medicine, Health, and the Environment — designed to inspire the next generation of scientists, innovators, and problem-solvers. Whether your student is in TK or 12th grade, there is something at this event that will spark something in them.

Today’s Speaker Schedule
📍 John Muir High School | 1905 N. Lincoln Ave., Pasadena | Room A132

1:00 PM — Dr. John Piotrowski
Carnegie Observatories
Astronomy: Cosmic Photography

1:30 PM — Dr. Anthony Pahl
Carnegie Observatories
High-Energy Radiation Leaking from Galaxies

2:00 PM — Edgar McGregor
Meteorologist
My Scientific Communication Experiences with the Eaton Fire

The event runs Noon to 4PM — so there’s still time to get there, explore the exhibits, catch a talk, and let your kids experience science the way it was meant to be experienced: hands-on, up close, and alive.

This event is inclusive, free, and open to all. No tickets. No cost. Just curiosity.

A huge thank you to our sponsors and partners who make this possible: Pasadena Water & Power, Pasadena LEARNs Expanded Learning Program, AAUW Pasadena, Kidspace Children’s Museum, Creative Love Publishing, KW Pasadena, The Parsons Real Estate Team, and John Muir High School Early College Magnet.

Hosted by the PTA Council of PUSD.
See you there.

More info: www.pusdsciencefest.org

PUSD Science Fest hosted by PTA Council PUSD is TODAY! Let’s go! Noon-4pm Link in comments. Thank our sponsors: Pasadena Learns, Pasadena Water and Power, American Association of Women Engineers Pasadena Chapter, D’Veal, The Parsons Team, Creative Love Publishing. With in-kind contributions from Kidspace Museum and Pasadena Rotary.

Sharing for the Eaton Fire Collaborative
Hope you can participate, Dr. Schonfeld was a speaker at a PUSD PTA Council Association Meeting last year, and we were grateful to have had the opportunity to connect and learn.

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