Interactive Experiences.
More than twenty hands-on STEM experiences filled the 2025 festival floor — from bottle-rocket launches and LEGO robot battles to AI model-training and STEM story time.
ARISS-USA
Information and hands-on activities for youth to explore amateur radio and the ISS.
Arm & Hammer
Interactive baking soda experiments, including slime-making, rocket-building, and erupting volcanoes.
Autodesk
Attendees can make their own pins at a Design & Make station.
Black Girls Code
Use Google’s Teachable Machine to teach it to recognize a new pose, like a superhero stance or heart hands — then test and improve the model while watching AI learn in real time.
BuildWithin
Experience BuildWithin’s cutting-edge AI agent in action — see how it matches your unique skills with exciting opportunities.
Carollo Engineers
Interactive water activities including a 3D treatment-plant walkthrough and hands-on water-quality tests.
COSI — Center of Science and Industry
Various interactive, hands-on science experiments.
Destination Imagination
Design and build a device to launch a ball into a wall of cardboard boxes and baskets. Prizes will be awarded.
Global Vending Group
Inchy’s Bookworm Vending Machine™ and Morgan’s Marvelous STEM Vending Machine, with free giveaways.
Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation
Build and battle LEGO robots in an exciting hands-on competition.
Learning Undefeated
An immersive heist game where students infiltrate and operate a manufacturing facility using critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. (Separate ticket required.)
National Energy Education Development Project
Hands-on blade-design challenge to test turbine efficiency, plus activities on circuits and UV-reactive solar beads to showcase radiant energy.
Pfizer
Today’s Education. Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs. Meet the people making breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. In partnership with Pfizer. (Separate ticket required.)
Phenix Design Group
Explore Earth, the Moon, and Mars using a six-degrees-of-freedom joystick, touchscreen search, and pre-programmed tours.
Raspberry Pi Foundation: North America
Hands-on AI activities where participants train models in projects such as Dance Detector and Tomato vs. Apple, exploring AI-driven pattern recognition.
ROTC
Discover how the ROTC program can propel your STEM career — scholarships, leadership training, and technical skills for futures in engineering, cybersecurity, aviation, and more.
Space Explorers for Education
Blast off into space exploration — collect data with a ChipSat, drive a programmable rover, or build your own cosmic creation.
Terysa Solves It — STEM Storytime
Storytelling that brings Think Like A Computer to life and introduces young learners to coding.
The Henry Ford
Discover the amazing, inspiring educational experiences The Henry Ford has to offer.
Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA)
Take part in an interactive drone-skills challenge.