Schedule of the Event:

February 1, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Kickoff Extravaganza

Kickoff our annual regional SciTech Festival with hands-on activities offered by more than 15 non-profit organizations!

All ages

Time: 10am -1 pm

Location: Science Vortex

February 2, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Peanut Butter Pinecone Bird Feeders

Create PB pinecone bird feeders to take home to your yard!

Ages 5-10

Time: 11am - 12pm

Location: Cottonwood Community Nature Center

February 3, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Science of Stress w/ VV Sanctuary

Learn about the science of stress & simple ways to reduce it for a calmer you!

Ages 8-12

Time: 3:30-4:30 PM

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

February 4, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Nature Self-Potratis

Create a self-portrait using items found in the natural world!

All ages

Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:  Cottonwood Community Nature Center

February 5, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Robot Challenge

Code an Edison robot to navigate a maze. No prior experience required!

Pre – registration required.

Time: 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Location:  Clarkdale Elementary School

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Cookie Catapults and Skyscrapers

Stack cookies with friends, build a mini – catapult, then see which launches cookies the farthest.

Then, enjoy the treat!

Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

February 6, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Butter Slime Storytime

Storytime and experiment: Is Butter slime a liquid, solid, or both?

Let’s be slick and find out together!

Ages 0 – 5

Time: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Electric Sculptures – Physics

Experiment with the basics of electricity and discover how it travels!

Ages 6 – 12, with ages 6 – 7 requiring an adult.

Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: Camp Verde Community Library

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Makerspace Family Night – Meet a Snake, Make a Snake

Join Red Rock Rangers to meet a rescued kingsnake, learn about VV snakes and create a snake craft!

Time: 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: The Science Vortex

February 7, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners Weekly STEM – Fingerprint Art Magnets

Create magnets with custom fingerprint art at Little Learners STEAM hour – take your masterpiece home to your refrigerator.

Ages 2 – 5 with an adult

Time: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: The Science Vortex

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Sonoran Reptiles – Native Species

Explore reptile species with Sonoran Reptiles, learn safety tips and gain knowledge to identify local reptiles!

Ages 6 – 12

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Pet Sidekick

Family Craft: Learn about balance, listen to a story and make your own pet sidekick to take home!

Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Community Library Sedona

February 8, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Bat Masks

Learn about the fascinating world of bats and create your own bat mask!

Ages 5 – 10

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: Cottonwood Community Nature Center, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Python Robotics Workshop with Pizza

Generate Python codes with an ASU professor that program a robot.

Explore coding, teamwork, and the future of technology!

Ages 12 – 17,  pre-registration required

Time: 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Magnetic Slime

Add iron filings to slime to create a magnetic blob that swallows up a magnet in this exciting experiment!

Ages 8 – 12

Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: Clark Memorial Library

February 9, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Vitalant Blood Drive

Blood donors needed.

Sign up at www.donors.vitalant.org and use Blood Drive code: ScienceVortexVV

Time: 1:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: The Science Vortex

February 10, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Static Electricity Butterflies

Make tissue paper butterflies and explore static electricity with the Science Vortex at Little Learneres STEAM hour in Sedona!

Ages 2 – 5 with adult

Time: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: Posse Grounds Park

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Biotechnology Career Exploration with tGen

Learn about careers related to genetics research and biotechnology through hands – on experiences with a tGen North scientist!

Ages 12  - 17

Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: The Science Vortex

February 12, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Water – Effluent, Storm and Conservation

Learn about groundwater, conservation and wastewater treatment with a tour, activites, and microorganism viewing. Receive a gift!

Ages 9 – 14

No shorter than 5′ for safety

Time: 8:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Camp Verde Water Reclamation Facility

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Science at parent Night

Visit tables with activities from Science Vortex, Camp Verde Community Library and Friends of the Verde River.

Ages 5 – 12

Time: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Camp Verde Elementary School

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Cipher Wheel

Learn how to make a cipher wheel and send secret messages!

Ages 8 – 12

Time: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Meet Moonlight the Owl

Meet Ranger Tori and Moonlight the owl and learn about owl ecology and wildlife recue/rehabilitation in the Verde Valley!

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

February 13, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Lava Lamps

Explore density, buoyance and chemical reactions while creating your own lava lamp!

Ages 6 – 12, with ages 6 – 7 requiring an adult

Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: Camp Verde Community Library

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Makerspace Family Night – Valentine’s Day Coded Message

Join us for Makerspace Family Night to craft secret Valentine’s messages using binary, beads, and pipecleaners.

Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: STEM Games and Book Fair

Play STEM games with your family and friends, then check out the fantastic books at the Scholastic Book Fair!

Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Dr. Daniel Bright School, 1500 S Monte Tesoro Dr, Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

February 14, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners Weekly STEM – Heart Structures

Little Learners STEAM Hour – Get ready for Valentine’s Day by buildling a paper heart structure!

Ages 2 – 5 with adult

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: 3D Print a Heart (without a printer!)

Learn the basics of 3D printing without using a printer, then turn your design into a card after a “lovely” book

Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library, 100 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

February 15, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Coding Club

Learn coding basics and create your own projects with Scratch.

Ages 8 – 12

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Cartooning For Kids

Draw atoms, spaceships, and all things science with Sedona’s own comic artist, The Janimal!

All skill levels welcome!

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

February 17, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners STEAM in Sedona – Sink or Float with CSO Kellan

Join Science Vortex for Little Learners STEAM in Sedona to test whether objects sink or float with CSO Kellan!

Ages 2 – 5 with adult

Time: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: Posse Grounds Park

February 18, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Innovations in Archaeology Special Tour

Explore VVAC’s new exhibit to learn about the intersection of cultural heritage in the SW and cutting edge archaeological tech!

Ages 12  -18

Time: 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum

February 19, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Tween Virtual Reality

Come discover how cool technology can take you anywhere you can imagine!

Ages 8 – 12

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Origami Fidgets

Make origami that moves!

Ages 13 – 17

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

February 20, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Ice Cream in a Bag Storytime

Storytime followed by an ice cream making expreiment.

Let’s get shaking!

Ages 0 – 5

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Cottonwood Public Library, 100 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Makerspace Family Night – Engineer a Car with CSO Tanner

Make a robot that creates its own colorful art at Famly Makerspace Night!

Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Windmills – Engineering

Learn about wind power and its ability to power devices!

Ages 6 – 12, with ages 6 – 7 with an adult

Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: Camp Verde Community Library

February 21, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners Weekly STEM – Bird Feeders

Create a recycled bird feeder at Little Learners STEAM Hour, then watch for visiting birds!

Ages  2 – 5 with an adult

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Bit by Bit Coding

Program Micro:bits with block coding to create fun, easy projects.

Ages 13 – 17

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library, 100 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Nature Connection – Hapa Zome

Experience hapa zome, a Japanese printmaking technique using nature pigments from Verde Valley leaves and flowers!

Time: 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: Clark Memorial Library

February 22, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Birds, Nature, and Family Fun with Audubon

Calling all bird lovers – celebrate birdwatching, nature, and art with activities offered by multiple local non-profits!

Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location: Sedona Wetlands Preserve, 7500 AZ-89A, Sedona, AZ 86336

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Slime with Chief Science Officers

Fun and messy hands-on science with CSOs Elisabeth and Aspen!

Ages 6 – 12

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: Community Library Sedona, 3250 White Bear Rd., ? Sedona, AZ, 86336

February 24, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners STEAM in Sedona – Parachute Challenge

Join Science Vortex for Little Learners STEAM in Sedona to design and test parachuts to see which flies the longest!

Ages 2 – 5 with an adult

Time: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: Posse Grounds Park

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Disaster Island LEGO Challenge

Work together to build your desert island.

Disaster strikes! How will you survive?

Time: 2:30pm to 3:15pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library

February 25, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Aviation Learning Stations

Learn about the science of aviation from COCSD 7th grade aviation students.

Ages 6 – 12

Time: 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: Cottonwood Educational Services

February 26, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Create Music with Robots

Create music by coding Edison Robots with Science Vortex!

Ages 6 – 12, with ages 6 – 7 with an adult

Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: Community Library Sedona

February 27, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Makerspace Family Night – Scribble Bots

Make a robot that creates its own colorful art.

Time: 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: The Science Vortex

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Coding – Math

Write code to do a job and let your teammate be the technology!

Ages 6 – 12, with ages 6 – 7 with an adult

Time: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: Camp Verde Community Library

February 28, 2025

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Little Learners Weekly STEM – Edible Shapes

Little ones will build shapes out of pretzels and marshmallows!

Ages 2 – 5 with an adult

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Science Vortex, 301 N. Willard St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Teen Virtual Reality

Come discover how cool technology can take you anywhere!

Ages 13 – 17

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library, 100 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Magnet Painting Family Craft

Paint with magnets, explore colors, and enjoy a fun story!

Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Cottonwood Public Library, 100 6th St., Cottonwood, AZ, 86326

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Sonoran Reptiles – Venomous Species

Get up close with desert reptiles!

Learn to identify venomous vs. non-venomous species and get survival tips.

Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: Community Library Sedona

Verde Valley SciTech Festival: Teen Archaeology Career Exploration

Discover the exciting world of excavation, research, and archaeological preservation!

Ages 12  – 18

Time: 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum

Date: February 1 - February 28, 2025

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