The Saint Louis Science Center hosts SciFest: Play and Creativity Expo, an all-day, free event showcasing how STEM concepts, innovation, play and creativity all go together. Visitors can get involved and engage their own creativity through exciting, hands-on activities.
At SciFest, your whole family can engage in and explore:
Brain games, fold and take-home origami, Star Wars costume design and technology, 3D painting and printing demos, fishing and fly tying, creative circuit building, Rocket League play and competition, robotics demos, board games, STEM and St. Louis Blues hockey, chemistry demos and more.
There will also be special presentations on the Energy Stage, plus exhibits and activities from partners like the Challenger Learning Center, Boeing, Wash U, SLU, SLSC Exsports, American Chemical Society, the St. Louis Artists' Guild, the U.S. Air Force, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and many others.
SciFest: Play and Creativity Expo is happening Saturday, August 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is a free event.
More information: slsc.org
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