Family day during the food festival SmakÅs 2025
SmakÅs is an annual two-day food and technology festival organized by Ås municipality in collaboration with Vitenparken Campus Ås . The festival puts sustainability on the agenda through food joy, knowledge and experiences – for the whole family.
Sunday is dedicated to Family Day at Vitenparken . The house and garden are filled with activities that combine play and learning. Children can explore everything from technology and coding to sustainable food, while adults get professional updates through exciting lectures.
📅 Detailed program and tickets will be published on Monday, October 6th at 4:00 PM.
👩🏫 Activities for adults
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at 12:30 “Is gene-edited food dangerous? Genes explained in a simple way” – Lecture with professor emeritus Odd-Arne Olsen
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at 2:30 PM “The story behind Jarlsberg cheese – developed here in Ås and today Norway's most famous cheese internationally” – Professor Roger Abrahamsen
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at 10:15 – approx. 12:15 Tour of Campus Ås with Tove Blytt Holmen
- at 10:30 – approx. 11:30 Lecture with school garden teacher Håkon Mella
Håkon Mella shares his experiences with seed collection from the school garden VitenEnga on Campus Ås.
Learn how to harvest, clean, and preserve your own seeds—and how this simple but important work connects us to larger issues of food security and sustainability.
👧🧒 Activities for children
Technology and chemistry:
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at 10:30 and 14:45 Science show with Researcher Fredric – as fun as it is educational!
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Coding with Sphero and Micro:bit
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Digital installations and interactive toys
Food and soil:
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Nitrogen ice cream 🍦
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Pancake bot 🥞
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Edible insects 🐛
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Outdoor salt 🧂
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Activities in VitenEnga 🌱
Family Day is free and open to everyone – a meeting place for knowledge, community and inspiration.
Please note that this is a very popular event with many visitors, and that there may therefore be some waiting time at the various stations.
We look forward to seeing you at Campus Ås!
Responsible:
Elina Gobeti
Marketing and Communications Manager
elina@vitenparken.no
+47 980 27 501
End date
12/10/2025
