We need exhibitors to host activity-based booths at the Drake STEM Festival on April 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. in The Knapp Center, with set-up beginning at 5 p.m. While the target audience is PreK-8 students and their families, the event draws participants of all ages, making this a fun and educational metro-area event.

It’s a great time for instructors to engage students or entire classes in hands-on, STEM-related exhibits. The South Central STEM Hub can help with booth ideas and can fund many of the materials used during the evening. We’d love to fill The Knapp Center with Drake faculty and students!

Here are a few ideas for incorporating the festival into what you already do:

• Build it into a lesson-planning curriculum for the entire class.
• Move class time and meeting to the festival.
• Incorporate your academic research/special interest into an activity or display.
• Fulfill service-learning requirements.
• Have a student group you work with present.
• Turn your favorite lesson into a display or activity that piques interest in learning more.

Click here to register for exhibit space. Please contact Sarah Derry at sarah.derry@drake.edu for more information.

—Submitted by Sarah Derry, STEM Regional Advocate