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SUMMARY:2025 Annual BBQ Picnic and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly event\, please join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony!  Download flyer \n\nDate and Time: July 12\, 2025\, 4-7pm\n\n4:00-5:00 pm: Wine-tasting with hors d’oevres\n5:00 pm: Awards and Recognitions – SVACS Ottenberg Award and celebrating 50-\, 60- and 70-year ACS members\nCatered by Armadillo Willy’s\, dinner will immediately follow Awards & Recognitions\n\n\nLocation: Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, Mountain View\, California (view map\, get directions)\nRegistration required by July 8th\nCost: $10.00/person.  Children: free. Payment by cash or check at the door. If paying by check\, please make it out to “Silicon Valley ACS.”\n\nView the list of Silicon Valley ACS Members with 50+ Years of ACS Membership. \n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/2025-annual-bbq-picnic-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:In-person
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley ACS 2026 Picnic and Awards
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly event\, join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony!\n\n\nDate and Time: July 11\, 2026\, 4-7pm\n\n\n4:00-5:00 pm: Wine-tasting with hors d’oeuvres\n\n\n5:00 pm: Awards and Recognitions – Silicon Valley ACS’ Ottenberg Award and Teacher-Scholar Award\, plus celebrating 50-\, 60- and 70-year ACS members\n\n\nLocation: Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, Mountain View\, California\n\n\nGeneral admission: $10\, Children free.   Catered by Armadillo Willys\n\n\nRegistration required by July 6th\, so we order enough food!   Download flyer
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/silicon-valley-acs-2026-picnic-and-awards/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic,Networking
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SUMMARY:2026 Ig Nobel Prizes (36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Improbable Research\n10:00 am-11:30 am\, Watch Livestream on YouTube | Learn more\n\nThe 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded at the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony\, on Thursday evening\, September 3\, 2026. The ceremony\, as per tradition\, will also be webcast. The previous 35 ceremonies all took place in the USA\, in Cambridge/Boston. In a break from tradition\, this year’s ceremony will take place in Zürich\, Switzerland. \nThe basic info: The Ceremony (and webcast) on September 3\, 2026\nWHEN/WHERE: This year’s ceremony will happen on Thursday\, September 3\, 2026\, 7:00 pm (CET)\, at Kongresshaus Zürich\, Claridenstrasse 5\, Zürich\, Switzerland. \nWHAT: Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced — each has done something that makes people LAUGH\, then THINK. A gaggle of amused genuine Nobel Prize winners will physically hand the prizes to the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. \nTICKETS TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to attend the ceremony in person went on sale May 12. The tickets sold out within a few days. [There is a chance that a few tickets will become available. You might want to check the ticket site occasionally to see.] \n\nREGULAR TICKETS: 89 CHF\nSTUDENT TICKETS (Up to PhD-student level. Please show student ID at the door.): 59 CHF\nBILLIONAIRE TICKETS (Expressly for people who want to financially support the Ig Nobel Prizes! Each billionaire-ticket holder will receive a Zimbabwean 1-billion-dollar bill.): 500 CHF\nMILLIONAIRE TICKETS (Expressly for people who want to financially support the Ig Nobel Prizes! Each millionaire-ticket holder will receive a Zimbabwean 1-million-dollar bill.): 250 CHF\nGROUP TICKETS: If your group wants to be recognized during the ceremony as an OFFICIAL DELEGATION\, first purchase your tickets\, then email us at zurich@improbable.com Minimum OFFICIAL DELEGATION size is ten (10). Maximum OFFICIAL DELEGATION size is one thousand (1000).\n\nWEBCAST\, and WATCH PARTIES: The 2026 ceremony will be webcast. (This will be the 32nd straight year — the 1995 Ig Nobel ceremony was one of the very first events ever to be webcast). Watch parties will happen in many countries\, some small and informal\, some large. You can download a guide for organizing a Watch Party. (If your organization would like to host an Official Ig Nobel Watch Party\, and thus be mentioned admiringly during the ceremony and also on this web page\, email us at <zurich@improbable.com>. This involves a few formalities. ) There will be OFFICIAL WATCH PARTIES in Flanders (University of Antwerp)\, The Netherlands (Utrecht University)\, Germany (DESY\, Hamburg)\, France (Université Paris Science & Lettres)\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts (Swissnex)\, and other places to be announced — and many unofficial watch parties (create you own!) in lots of places. \nIG NOBEL FACE-to-FACE in ZURICH: A related event\, called “Ig Nobel Face-to-Face”\, will happen the next afternoon\, Friday\, September 4\, 2026\, 2:00 pm\, at Hörsaal Universität Zürich\, University of Zürich\, Rämistrasse 71\, Zürich. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners will ask each other questions about their work. The Face-to-Face event is free. Seating is limited\, so we advise arriving a bit early. (The Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event will not be webcast. We will later produce an edited video of the event.) \n[THREE WEEKS LATER] BOST-Ig\, A CELEBRATION IN CAMBRIDGE\, USA\, at the Swiss Consulate\, Swissnex\, in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 6:00-7:00 pm\, then light refreshments (doors open 5:30). This is a small (small because space is very limited) celebration event. A few of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will do a short informal talks\, as will Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams. There will be a performance of three Tom Lehrer songs (Tom\, who died last year\, helped with several of the early Ig Nobel ceremonies) by Amanda Palmer and Dr. Thomas Michel (who each have performed in and helped organize many Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies)\, and a short display/talk by Louise Reilly Sacco (who also has performed in and helped organize many Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies) of science-related paintings from MOBA\, the Museum of Bad Art. And there will be jolly conversation with the audience. Details TBA. \n[SOME WEEKS LATER] IG NOBEL FACE-to-FACE IN TOKYO\, JAPAN…. The Miraikan science museum\, in Tokyo\, will again host a gala Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. Date and other details TBA. \n(Curious about the previous year? Take a peek at the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony!)  Watch on YouTube
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/2026-ig-nobel-prizes-36th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Awards
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