April has arrived and with it come lots of opportunities to Do Some Science! In addition to be Global Astronomy Month and National Gardening Month, April is also home to National Robotics Week, the Lyrids Meteor Shower, and Earth Day. Take a look at what April brings for the science lover in you.
April 3: Global Day of the Engineer
April 3: Birthday of the primatologist and anthropologist, Jane Goodall’s
April 3-6: National Science Teachers Association National Conference (Boston, MA)
April 5: Birthday of Joseph Lister; British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery
April 6-14: National Robotics Week
April 7: World Health Day
April 12: Yuri’s Night
April 12: Anniversary of NASA’s first Space Shuttle flight
April 13: Citizen Science Day
April 13-19: National Environmental Education (EE) Week
April 14: National Dolphin Day
April 15: Birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci
April 16: Birthday of Wilbur Wright; aviation pioneer credited with inventing and flying the world’s first successful airplane
April 17: Bat Appreciation Da
April 19: Full Pink Moon (also known as Full Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, or Fish Moon)
April 22-23: Lyrids Meteor Shower
April 22: Earth Day (US)
April 23: Birthday of Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck; the founder of quantum theory of physics
April 25: National DNA Day
April 25: Hubble Telescope lunched into orbit in 1990
April 26: National Richter Scale Day
April 26-27: USA Science and Engineering Festival (Washington, DC)
April 27: Morse Code Day
