BOONE, Iowa—Are you looking for something fun to do with your kids? Check out the Boone Family STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Festival from 9 a.m. to noon, on Saturday, April 13 at the DMACC Boone Campus at 1125 Hancock Drive in Boone.
This free event is open to families with kids of all ages to experience hands-on STEM activities. There will be robots, LEGO catapults, Elephant toothpaste, extracting DNA, 3D printing, toothpick puzzles, Monarchs, a rainfall simulator, a flame thrower, health discovery and more.
Free water bottles and bags will also be given out. Here are some of the booths with hands-on activities:
· Ericson Public Library
· Iowa 4-H FLEX Mobile – Virtual Reality
· Blank Park Zoo
· Cardinal Space Mining
· Mid-West 3D Solutions
· Iowa Public Television
· Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa
· ISU Extension and Outreach Animal Science
· DMACC Students
· American Meteorological Society Student Chapter at Iowa State
· Graduate Society of Women Engineers
· DMACC STEM Club
· Boone County 4-H Science & Tech Club
· Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Majors (SCUM)
· Des Moines Y Camp
· Beyer Crop Science
· Boone County Farm Bureau
· YMCA Amazing Adventures
· Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium
· DMACC Simulation Center
· Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
· DNR – Ledges State Park
· Iowa State University Computer Science Department Outreach
· Equipping Math Teachers
· Ankeny DMACC STEM Club
· DMACC Biotechnology Program
· DMACC Physics Students
· Prairie Rivers of Iowa
· Lyndsay Baker, DMACC NASA Aerospace Scholars Program
· DMACC Nursing Club
· Iowa State University College of Engineering
This event is a partnership between the DMACC Boone Campus, Boone County ISU Extension & Outreach/4-H and the North Central STEM Governor’s STEM Advisory Council.
For more information, go to https://www.extension.iastate.edu/boone/stemfestival.
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