Tuesday,
April 29, 2025
Game Starts at 6 PM
Atrium Health Ballpark | 1 Cannon Baller Way | Kannapolis, NC 28081
$13.17 tickets
LEARN FROM
REAL SCIENTISTS
Free Science Activities for Kids of All Ages
Activities: Solar Critters, The Microworld, Tiny Terrariums, Build A Fractal, Community Scientist, Can You Taste It?
Join us for an exciting night of baseball and hands-on science at the Cannon Ballers stadium! The NC Research Campus (NCRC) and the NC Science Festival are bringing STEM to life with interactive science activities between innings and throughout the concourse. Kids (ages 5-18) can complete science kits with real scientists and learn about the groundbreaking nutrition research happening in our community.
STEM Night Hosting Partners
HOSTING PARTNERS
NC Science Festival
NC Science Festival is a month-long celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) that takes place every April. This year’s theme is “Science: Everyday, Everywhere, Everyone” – we’re excited to celebrate all the important ways science is woven into the fabric of our everyday lives and to expand access to incredible STEM events to more audiences across the state.
UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI)
The NRI is a unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an internationally recognized center that conducts innovative basic and translational science studying how individual differences in requirements and responses to diet affect our individual nutritional needs.
Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers is a Minor League Baseball team of the Carolina League and the Single-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.
NCRC PARTNERS
NC State Plants for Human Health Institute
a global center for discovery and translation of plant and food innovations for disease prevention and health benefits
UNC Charlotte Bioinformatics Research and Services
applies bioinformatics to the discovery, development, and application of novel computational technologies to help solve important biological problems.
NC A&T Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies
focus on improving the quality and safety of food after it has left the farm. CEPHT’s goal is the development of multidisciplinary programs focused on post-harvest technologies including research pertaining to processing, preservation, consumer research, recovery of health promoting food components, food safety issues, storage stability and quality and value-added product development for food and non-food uses.
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
The Rowan-Cabarrus Community College location on the North Carolina Research Campus consists of two buildings that function as a hands-on, realistic training environment for the College’s health, science, and engineering programs.
NC Central University
NCCU conducts research to identify and evaluate bioactive natural products from functional foods and herbal medicine. The goal is to use metabolomic and nutrigenomic approaches to find new options to prevent and treat diseases like cancer and diabetes as well as their many complications.