When Kishore Hari is hired to run a new science festival he thinks he has the perfect plan, but the reality was much more than he expected.
Kishore Hari is the Director of the Bay Area Science Festival, an annual celebration of science in San Francisco. After spending years operating an environmental services company, he left industry for the greener pastures of public science events and science education. He has founded numerous public science ventures, including a science cafe, a science field trip series, and a comprehensive calendar of science events across the Bay Area.
This story originally aired on January 12, 2014.
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