Cheer on the competitors in this zany, science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

San Francisco's Exploratorium brings its fifth eclipse expedition team to remote Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China, very close to the Mongolian border, where the Exploratorium will webcast a total solar eclipse live to the world.

"It's like school, but more fun," says Donny. "You learn about what people really do in the world." Catering to youth from underserved communities, XTech keeps its middle and high school students on track and thinking about the future. This program is designed to help inspire some of these students to become part of the next generation of scientists, engineers, and others who work to shape the world we live in.

Send your favorite kid to some cool science classes! Classes described below are for members of the Exploratorium at $30 each. Sign up online at exploratorium.edu. The schedule is as follows:

On Saturday, May 17, at 2pm, join the Exploratorium's Film Program for an afternoon of lyrical short films that resonate with the power of place. Films are shown in the Exploratorium's McBean Theater and are included in the price of admission to the museum. The schedule is as follows:

What do your thoughts sound like, look like, feel like? Do they amble or careen in a flood? We are always thinking, but rarely share our thoughts out loud. What if you could walk through everyone's thoughts, scrawled out for all to see?

All wound up with nothing to do? Swing by the Exploratorium on September 6th, beginning at 10am, for the 2008 California State Yo-Yo Championships. Meet National and World Yo-Yo Champions.

For many people, Friday the 13th suggests bad luck -- but is it really tempting fate to break a mirror? Are you courting disaster by walking under a ladder? And what really happens if you step squarely on that crack in the sidewalk? Challenge these and other superstitions at the Exploratorium's new Superstition Obstacle Course opening on Friday, June 13 through September 1, 2008.

Send your favorite kid to some cool science classes. The Exploratorium offers Children's Science Classes for Members on April 27 on the topic of Life Sciences. Classes are described below and are for members of the Exploratorium at $30 each, and anyone can become a member.

The Exploratorium projects the human imagination into the 21st century of fashion. San Francisco's popular museum of science, art, technology and human perception hosts a quirky evening event -- 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing -- where science/technology and art/fashion converge on Friday, April 25, from 7–11pm.

Meet local musicians and filmmakers in a special series of “live cinema” programs designed for all ages at the Exploratorium's March Music and Movies Series on March 1, 8 and 15. For these first three Saturdays in March, the Exploratorium highlights a different group of musicians and filmmakers performing original tunes to homemade movies.

The Exploratorium presents a photographic exhibition, The Search for Universals in Human Emotion, from the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Ekman, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of his influential work with the isolated South Fore people of New Guinea. Ekman was named by the American Psychological Association as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.