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STEAM Fair

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All Ages
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Program Description

About This Event

Discover, explore, and engage in critical thinking at our second annual STEAM Fair.

Join us at this special event highlighting subjects that promote critical skills: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. Learn to code with robots, experience virtual reality, or enjoy many other hands-on activities. Pick up a map with a checklist of exhibitors when you arrive and visit the booths to collect goodie bag items. Drop your completed map in the drawing box for a chance to win a prize like Ozobot Evo, a Dash robot, or a family pass to Kohl Children’s Museum!

Free. All Ages. Drop in.

Floor Map of Exhibitors and Activities (PDF)

Confirmed Booth Exhibitors Include:

  • Black's Backbone
  • Blocks to Bricks, Inc.
  • Bob Johnson - SEAOI Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
  • Boy Scouts of America STEAM Program
  • Cernan Earth & Space Center at Triton College
  • Code Ninjas of Hoffman Estates
  • Crabtree Nature Center
  • Dominican University - Department of Nutrition Sciences
  • FrogLady Presentations
  • Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana
  • Harper College Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
  • Hoffman Estates Park District
  • IEEE
  • Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago
  • Lake County Forest Preserves
  • March for Science- Palatine
  • Mathnasium of Palatine
  • Minecraft Mania
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • Northwest Suburban Astronomers
  • Palatine Fire Department
  • Palatine Police Department
  • Play-Well TEKnologies
  • Quest Academy: School for Gifted Children
  • Salt Creek Rural Park District Preschool
  • STEM For Kids - IL NW Chicago
  • Techno Titans FLL
  • Winston Campus Robotics Club