The Science Dinner is BACK! 🎉🔬

After a three-year pause, STEAM Region 19 is bringing back one of our favorite traditions — Science Dinners!

And we have a great speaker to help us kick things off.

Join us in September as UTEP Professor and Texas State Seismologist Dr. Aaron Velasco takes us beneath the surface to talk about earthquakes, earthquake safety in El Paso, and the Great ShakeOut‍ ‍2026— an international earthquake preparedness program coming to local schools this fall.

Learn about the science behind earthquakes, what earthquake risk looks like here in our own region, and how the Great ShakeOut gives students and schools an opportunity to practice what to do when the ground starts shaking.

But Science Dinner has always been about more than the presentation.

It’s a chance for science teachers, professors, instructional coaches, informal educators, and other science-minded folks from across the Borderland to get together, share a meal, talk science, exchange ideas, and reconnect with our science education community.

After three years away, we’re ready to do that again.

📍 Great American Steakburger — Mesa Hills
🍽️ No-host dinner — attendees purchase their own meal and order whatever they’d like from the menu
🌎 Guest Speaker: Dr. Aaron Velasco, UTEP Professor & Texas State Seismologist
🔬 Topic: The Great ShakeOut 2026 & Earthquake Safety in El Paso
🎁 Door prizes
🤝 Good food, great conversation, and plenty of science

Whether you were part of our Science Dinners in the past or this will be your very first one, we’d love to have you at the table.

Come eat. Learn something new. Reconnect with old friends. Make some new ones.

Science is always better over dinner.