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🎡✨ STEM Day at the Western Idaho Fair ✨🎡📅 Thursday, August 15th
🕛 12 PM – 8 PM
📍 Western Idaho Fairgrounds, Expo Idaho
🎟️ FREE entry before 4 PM with a canned food donation, courtesy of CBS2 Boise!
Join us for an action-packed day of hands-on STEM activities for all ages! Explore, build, create, and discover with some of the most exciting STEM partners in Idaho:
🔹 Ada Soil & Water Conservation District – Explore bee & butterfly boxes and make native seed balls to support pollinators!
🔹 Boise State AstroTAC – Make your own solar system bracelet using beads that represent the planets.
🔹 Boise Urban Garden School (BUGS) & Foothills Learning Center (FLC) – Try a seed-matching game and check out animal tracks and furs.
🔹 CapEd Credit Union – Play Financial Education Bingo and learn smart money skills.
🔹 FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge & FIRST Robotics Competition (Open Lab Idaho & Idaho Regional Robotics) – Watch live robot demos, try a coding game, win candy and prizes at the Plinko board!
🔹 Girl Scouts of Silver Sage – Engineer a custom creature using biomimicry to solve survival or mobility challenges.
🔹 Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission – Explore the interactive rangeland trailer with up to 6 educational activities.
🔹 Idaho LEGO Users Group (LUG) – Race to build the tallest LEGO tower and see the amazing LEGO Great Ball Contraption in action!
🔹 Library Consortium (Meridian, Kuna, Nampa & Ada Community Libraries) – Try 3D printers, UV bead buddies, earthquake simulations, and more!
🔹 Microelectronics Education and Research Center, Boise State – Learn about electricity with snap circuits and energy sticks.
🔹 Snapology – Team up to build LEGO towers and bridges while practicing teamwork and creativity.
🔹 STEMfinity – Dive into 3D printing with a hands-on activity using custom 3D printed cards.
🔹 Women in Aviation, Gem State Chapter – Explore aviation with a sectional scavenger hunt, map plotting, and wind correction demos.
🔹 YMCA Camp at Horsethief Reservoir – Get creative with Cardboard Creations and design imaginative builds.
🚀 STEM Day is fun for all ages—families, kids, students, and curious minds welcome!
🧃 Food vendors and fair fun are just steps away.
🎁 Don’t forget to enter the passport drawing after visiting STEM booths!
Let us know you're coming and share with friends—we can't wait to see you there! 🙌
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Expo Idaho, Garden City, United States
