Schedule of the Event:

February 20, 2025

Broadmor Science Fair – Community Open House/STEM Night

Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: Broadmor Elementary School, 311 E Aepli Dr, Tempe, AZ 85282

February 22, 2025

Chandler Innovation Fair

Every February, Chandler celebrates the exploration of invention. The Chandler Innovation Fair (CIF) showcases the businesses, artists, students and innovators in the community as Chandler participates in the statewide Arizona SciTech Festival.

Now in its 14th year, we are continuing to partner with the Chandler Unified School District’s Innovation Fair, which brings about greater district participation.

This free event offers unique opportunities for attendees to explore the discoveries of science engineered in their own backyard and taught in Chandler Unified schools. Chandler uses ‘sneaky science’ by entertaining the whole family while explaining how science is important to daily life.

Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: Dr. A.J. Chandler Park: Stage Plaza, 178 E. Commonwealth Ave., Chandler, AZ 85225

February 22, 2025

Arizona State University: Open Door Tempe

More than 55,000 students study at the historic Tempe campus.

The historic Tempe campus offers hundreds of majors that engage undergraduates and graduates in multidisciplinary research and exploration in innovative laboratories and facilities. Mountain America Stadium and ASU’s other Big 12 athletic venues contribute to the spirit-filled energy on campus. The Sun Devils’ athletic complex, performing arts facilities and high-tech research space create a dynamic and engaging learning environment.

Unlock your curiosity and join the ASU community for dozens of interactive events, simulations, challenges, games and more at ASU Open Door. Please join in the fun at ASU’s Tempe campus!

Highlights include:

- Dreamscape Learn VR teaching tool.
- ASU’s natural history collection.
- Rocket building.
- Touch and hold snakes.
- Learn American sign language.
- Build a first aid kit.
- Extract DNA from strawberries.
- Mirror maze.
- Catapult-building.
- Highlights of ASU’s NASA mission.
- Explore the gut microbiome.
- STEM career information.
- Messages in a bottle.
- Electric circuitry.
- Paper airplanes.
- Concrete canoe display.

Time: 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: Arizona State University Tempe Campus, 1151 S Forest Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281

February 27, 2025

Zaharis Elementary STEAM Showcase

Time: 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: Zaharis Elementary School, 9410 East McKellips Road, Mesa, AZ 85207

February 27, 2025

Laguna Elementary STEM Night

Time: 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: Laguna Elementary School, 5001 N Shannon Rd, Tucson, AZ 8570

February 28, 2025

Phoenix Zoo: Conservation Science Night

Join us for an exciting evening celebrating the Phoenix Zoo’s conservation efforts! Engage with conservation scientists and discover the impactful work we’re doing to preserve species in Arizona. This is a family-friendly event and there is something for everyone!

This year’s interactive stations Include:

- Putting your speed and agility to the test through our black-footed ferret bootcamp

- Using a black light to identify tagged narrow-headed gartersnakes

- Surveying and appreciating our smallest friends, Arizona’s springsnails

Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: Phoenix Zoo, 455 North Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ 85008

March 4, 2025

Midwestern University: Health Sciences Career Day for High School Students

Midwestern University (MWU) invites high school students to join MWU faculty and students for a hands-on program in the professions of medicine and other healthcare career opportunities.

Time: 9:00am to 2:00pm

Location: Midwestern University, 19555 N. 59th Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85308

March 8, 2025

Prescott Regional SciTech Fest

The Prescott Regional SciTech Festival promotes a culture that celebrates and embraces education, research, collaboration, innovation, and economic growth in the Prescott region, related to Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and the Arts (STEAM).

This free, fun-filled educational event features interactive science, technology, engineering, art, and math exhibits and demonstrations as part of the statewide Arizona SciTech initiative. Visitors can engage in hands-on activities, observe scientific experiments, collect free giveaways from campus organizations and community exhibitors, and experience a free planetarium show.

Free tickets to planetarium shows occurring throughout the morning and afternoon will be provided on-site to festival guests. A planetarium show for young children and their families, “Our Friends the Planets,” will occur at 11 a.m., while a show for general audiences, “Across the Visible Universe,” will occur at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Location: Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium, 3700 Willow Creek Rd, Prescott, AZ 86301

March 8 & 9, 2025

Arizona Renaissance Festival: Artisan Appreciation and Wizards and Wonder Weekend!

There is something for EVERYONE at the Arizona Renaissance Festival!

The Festival’s 50 acre village is filled with 16 stages of nonstop entertainment, music, comedy, falconry, dance, mermaids, and acrobatics. Foolish pleasures mix with artisan treasures as you shop, eat and mingle with a cast of nearly 2,000 colorfully costumed characters.

Explore the village marketplace with over 200 storybook shops, studios, and galleries filled with unique arts and crafts, handmade wares, kitchens and pubs, games, and people-powered rides.

Join us on March 8 and 9 for Artisan Appreciation and Wizards & Wonder Weekend! !

Learn about STEM career fields and enjoy everything the STEM community has to offer but with a renaissance flair.

Artisan Appreciation – BOTH DAYS

Observe old world trades and unique items crafted by the Queen’s artisans!

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Time: 10:00am to 6:00pm

Location: Arizona Renaissance Festival, 12601 East Highway 60, Gold Canyon, AZ 85218

March 13, 2025

Canyon Springs STEM Academy: Family STEM Night

Join us for an evening of exploration, creativity, and innovation! Students from PreK through 8th grade will proudly showcase their STEM and Engineering Design Projects, highlighting their hard work and ingenuity.

In addition to student exhibits, the event will feature STEM-focused sponsors who will provide interactive displays and engaging activities. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to celebrate STEM learning and connect with our vibrant STEM community!

Mark your calendar, and we’ll see you there!

Time: 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: Canyon Springs STEM Academy, 42901 N 45th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85087

March 15 & 16, 2025

Tucson Festival of Books: Science City

Tucson Festival of Books is a free celebration of authors, reading and literacy on March 15 and 16!

Science City is just one of the incredible venues of the Tucson Festival of Books. There will be so many fun and exciting interactive activities for kids, adults and families.

Science Cafe: Science Café features experts and practitioners discussing topics that affect you, daily life, and our world. Bring your food or enjoy the vendors’ offerings, take a seat in the shade and enjoy the discussions.

Science of Art: Get in touch with your artistic side in the Science of Art Neighborhood. Learn about the integration of art and science, as well as the sciences that undergird the arts, including the physics of sound, and the relationship between Mathematics and Art.

Science of Everyday Life: Have you ever wondered about things you see every day? In the Science of Everyday Life Neighborhood learn about sports, electricity, renewable energy, environmental change, consumer science, engineering, safety and more.

Science of the Natural World: Do you want to get in touch with nature? In the Science of the Natural World Neighborhood you’ll learn about insects, snakes, desert animals and animal science, gems and minerals, earth science, environmental science, plant science and more.

Science of Tomorrow: Look towards the future in the Science of Tomorrow Neighborhood where you will learn about data and information science, optical science, physical science, space science, engineering, robotics and more.

Science of You: Do you want to know yourself better? The Science of You neighborhood features genetics, the human body, infections diseases, public health, medical science, neuroscience, behavioral science, language, and more.

Tours and Open Houses: Peer behind the scenes at museums and research facilities on campus with Tours and Open Houses.

Time: 9:30am to 5:30pm

Location: The University of Arizona Main Campus, 1200 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721

March 26, 2025

City of Tempe: Geeks Night Out 2025

Calling all Scientists, Techies, Engineers, Artists, and Mathematicians!

Join us for Tempe’s annual STEAM Festival, Geeks Night Out. The free, family-friendly event is a celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics that provides interactive, hands-on learning opportunities for the community to enjoy.

Geeks Night Out is an Arizona SciTech Festival signature event, presented by State Farm, that allows everyone to discover the science in everyday things.

Merging fun and education, Geeks Night Out showcases everything from robotics and coding exercises to a makerspace and art displays. More than 60 organizations will deliver hands-on activities, cool science experiments, live entertainment, food trucks, and so much more.

2025 marks the 12th Anniversary of the community collaboration between Tempe Elementary School District,  Tempe Union High School District, Kyrene School District, East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT), Arizona State University, Rio Salado College, University of Advancing Technology (UAT), local businesses, organizations and the City of Tempe. The free, family-friendly event is sponsored in part by the Tempe Diablos.

Time: 5:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: Tempe Community Complex, 655 E Southern Ave, Tempe, AZ 85282

March 28, 2025

Gila River Indian Community: Earth Day Celebration

Earth Day is Every Day in the Gila River Indian Community!

Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.

The fight for a clean environment continues in an atmosphere of increasing urgency as the ravages of climate change become more evident every day. For a number of years, the Community’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has celebrated Earth Day to raise public awareness about environmental issues locally, nationally, and globally. We invite you to be a part of Earth Day and learn what the various Community departments and programs are doing to protect the Community’s resources. Please help us achieve more victories so we can build a clean, healthy, and safe environment for generations to come.

Time:  10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: Gila River Indian Community Department of Environmental Quality, 168 Skill Center Road, Sacaton, AZ 85147

March 29, 2025

Verde Valley Comic Expo

Where Comics and Pop Culture Meet!

Entry costs $5 or $3 if you donate at least 2 non-perishable food items.

Kids 10 and under get in free!

Proceeds go to the Cottonwood Bookmarks, Friends of the Library to help support the Cottonwood Public Library’s Summer Reading Programs!

Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm

Location: Cottonwood Recreation Center, 150 S. 6th St, Cottonwood, AZ 86326

March 29, 2025

Fountain Hills Dark Sky Association: Fountain Hills Dark Sky Festival

This annual family-friendly event features a variety of activities and exhibits that highlight dark sky preservation and topics related to it.

We’ve curated activities to appeal to every age group and area of Interest when it comes to the night sky. Here are just a few:

- Passport activity for two student age groups. Visit various activities and exhibitors, get a stamp in your passport, and enter a drawing for a free bike from McDowell Mountain Cycles.
- Live animals: Wild at Heart, Southwest Conservation Center, Center for Native and Urban Wildlife, Arizona Bat Rescue, and more!
- ASU Mars Rover exhibit
- Virtual Reality tours of the solar system
- Solar Walk
- Face painting
- And much more!
- Fun exhibits and demonstrations
- Exhibit of live nocturnal animals
- Student art contest
- Fascinating speakers who share fun topics
- Auction of telescopes, telescope equipment, and other great items related to the night sky
- Beer and wine garden with live music
- Food trucks
- SO MUCH MORE!

This event is free to the general public.

Time: 4:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: Fountain Hills Community Center, 13001 N. LaMontana Drive, Fountain Hills, AZ 85269

April 25, 2025

Joseph Zito Elementary School: Dia de los Ninos

Dia Del Ninos is an event to celebrate our students where we bring various vendors in to do activities with the students.

Time: 8:30am to 11:00am

Location: Joseph Zito Elementary School, 4525 W Encanto Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85035

Date: February 20 - April 25, 2025

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