Find the wonder in science at this weekend's Science Rendezvous.

Science Rendezvous is happening across Canada on Saturday, May 13. The event is the brainchild of Dwayne Miller, a University of Manitoba alumni, who wanted to bring science out of the lab and onto the streets.

"[Miller] devised a festival where he would get scientists from the university to work with their students and do interesting, fun, spectacular experiments that the public could engage with outside the lab," said STEAM Coordinator at the University of Manitoba Seema Goel.

"It's to bring science out into the public and increase the wonder and literacy associated with it," she said.

Saturday's festival is a lot like other festivals inside the city. It will have food trucks, a magic show (with chemistry) and even 'rides', like an angular momentum stool along with a giant trough of cornstarch and water. You can finish off the day with some ice cream made from liquid nitrogen.

"Why would you come?" Goel asked. "Because science is all around us. It turns out it's wonderful and delightful."

There will be stuff for adults as well as kids. Goel said that many of the experiments will pull the adults in just as much as the kids. "While the kids are having fun with [the experiments], the adults are intrigued." 

"Often, we neglect science as a place of wonder," Goel stated. "But, when we're doing science, it's not like that at all. It's a place of questions . . . it's a place where we're taking risk, it's a place were we're having fun."

Science Rendezvous runs from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the University of Manitoba on May 13, with free parking. The University of Winnipeg is also putting on the event from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.