Maryland STEM Festival

Preschool Science: Dancing Balloons
2025-11-05 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Queen Anne’s County Library, 121 S Commerce St, Centreville, MD, 21617, United States
Ages: 3-5 with caregiver
Learn how to create a vortex and make the balloons dance! We will learn all about a vortex using balloons and fans in this hands-on experiment!

Power Up with Choptank Electric Cooperative
2025-11-05 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-04 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-03 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-02 10:00 - 17:00 | Wicomico Public Library-Paul S Sarbanes Branch, 122 South Division Street, Salisbury, MD, 21801, United States
Celebrate the Maryland STEM Festival with Wicomico Public Library and Choptank Electric Cooperative! Throughout the month, children of all ages are invited to explore the exciting world of electricity through fun, self-guided activities. Discover how energy is generated, how it travels to your home, and why it matters. Stop by anytime during open hours to learn, play, and get inspired by the power of STEM!

MD STEM Fest Reading Challenge
2025-11-05 09:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-04 09:00 - 23:30, 2025-11-03 09:00 - 23:30 | Online
Discover the fun of STEM through stories and hands-on challenges! Complete STEM-themed activities and read books to fill your bingo board.

BioTech Health Expo
2025-11-05 08:00 - 11:30 | Robert Frost Middle School, 9201 Scott Drivce, Rockville, 20852, United States
Local Biotech and Health Care organizations will be provided with activities and demonstrations for students of RFMS. This is a closed event, only for RFMS Students

Design. Build. Discover: Explore Mechanical Engineering at UMBC
2025-11-04 18:00 - 19:00 | UMBC at the Universities at Shady Grove, 9636 Gudelsky Dr, Office 3111 - BSE (Building IV), Rockville, MD, 20850, United States
Explore mechanical engineering at UMBC-Shady Grove! Join us for an overview of the program, a tour of our labs in USG’s Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Building, and a simulation where current students will show off a project they’re working on. You’ll also get to connect with our staff and faculty, including new Program Director Adam Bridendolph.

3D Printing Workshop
2025-11-04 16:30 - 18:00 | Wicomico Public Library-Paul S Sarbanes Branch, 122 South Division Street, Salisbury, MD, 21801, United States
Join us for a hands-on 3D Printing Workshop designed just for kids and teens! In this creative and interactive program, participants will explore the exciting world of 3D design using Tinkercad, a fun and beginner-friendly modeling tool. Each session includes engaging challenges, skill-building activities, and the opportunity to bring digital creations to life using a real 3D printer.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or have some experience, this workshop is a great way to learn, build, and invent. Come create something amazing!

STEM Challenge at Frostburg Library
2025-11-04 16:30 - 17:30 | Frostburg Library, 65 E. Main Street, Frostburg, MD, 21532, United States
Join FSU Engineering Students & Faculty for a hands-on STEM Challenge activity on Tuesday, November at 4:30 PM at Frostburg Library in the Toll House. This will be an excellent opportunity to spark creativity, build teamwork, and critical thinking skills! This session is for students in grades 6-12.

Drones 101
2025-11-04 16:30 - 17:30 | Ocean Pines Library, 11107 Cathell Road, Berlin, MD, 21811, United States
Learn all about drones with Worcester Tech instructor Valerie Zienty.

STEAM Lab
2025-11-04 16:30 - 17:00 | C. Burr Artz Library, 110 East Patrick St., Frederick, MD, 21701, United States
Join us for a variety of science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities for elementary-aged children.

AI IRL: Real Talk for Teens
2025-11-04 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, MD, 20878, United States
AI IRL: Real Talk for Teens is a four-session discussion series built around real AI headlines. Each session starts with a short news story, separates fact from myth, introduces one practical skill to try, and opens the floor for conversation guided by teens’ questions.
Participants build practical, responsible AI habits: verifying claims and sources, recognizing bias and misinformation, writing task-appropriate prompts, crediting AI assistance when required, and protecting privacy online. The final session includes a look at AI’s environmental impact, tying into this year’s Maryland STEM Festival theme of ENERGY.
Each session stands alone, so participants can attend any or all and leave with something they can use right away for schoolwork, early work experiences and resumes, creative projects, or daily life. Phones and laptops are welcome, and snacks are provided.
Event runs from 10/22 through 11/12

Light Street Lab: DIY Kazoo
2025-11-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Light Street Library, 1251 Light St, Baltimore, MD, 21230, United States
Let’s celebrate the MD STEM Festival. This year’s theme is Energy!
Learn about the science behind the energy of sound waves and make your own kazoo out of household items!

Build-In Movie: Big Hero 6
2025-11-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Orleans Branch, 1303 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD, 21231, United States
It’s Maryland STEM Fest! Can you build a robot like Hiro and his friends out of our building chips? Set mechanical energies and your own creativity in motion while you watch Disney’s Big Hero 6.
A young tech whiz named Hiro must save his city from a nefarious villain with the help of his inflatable robot Baymax, as well as his friends Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred.
2014 | PG | 1hr42min

MD STEM Fest Challenge
2025-11-04 13:30 - 19:00 | Sharpsburg Library, 106 East Main ST, Sharpesburg, MD, 21782, United States
Stations will be set up with Legos and marble runs. Look through our microscope and magnifying glass, what do you see?

Kids' Academy: Nanoscience
2025-11-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Perryville Branch Library, 500 Coudon Blvd., Perryville, MD, 21903, United States
Explore the world of the extremely small–so small you cannot see it with the human eye and where odd things happen at a nanoscale!
Educational activities for homeschoolers and children in non-traditional school settings. Ages 6-11.

Hydraulic Excavator: Makerspace Mondays
2025-11-03 18:00 - 19:30 | MD
Learn about Blaise Pascal, his principle of static pressure transmission, hydraulic systems and applications while engineering a working model of a hydraulic excavator. All materials provided and students keep their constructed machines.
This class is part of the 2025 Maryland STEM Festival.

Go Batty! (families)
2025-11-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Savage Branch Library, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
Families; 60 min. Ticket required.
Connect and protect bats in your neighborhood. Learn how vital bats are for our environment. Engage in hands-on learning and activities to preserve and safeguard the only flying mammal in our world.
This class is part of the 2025 Maryland STEM Festival. Click here for the full schedule of classes and events for all ages.
Tickets available 15 minutes before class.

Explore FIRST Robotics
2025-11-03 16:30 - 19:30 | Elkridge Branch Library, 6540 Washington Blvd,, Elkridge, MD, 21075, United States
We, a FTC robotics team solar storm (27019) and Chinese American Parent Association at Howard County (CAPA-HC), will host a FIRST robotics event at Elkridge Library, to introduce FIRST robotics at three different levels, including LEGO based First Lego League (FLL), First Tech Challenge (FTC), and First Robotics Competition (FRC) programs, together with our friend
teams. The FLL is a Lego based robotics competition program suitable for grades K-8 (ages 5-16). The FTC is a robotics competition program suitable for grades 7-12 (ages 12-18). The FRC program is suitable for high school students (age 14-18). They gave students at all levels great opportunity to learn following
skills: 1. STEM and technical skills including engineering thinking, software and hardware, electronics and robotics, Critical thinking and problem
solving 2. Team work and leadership skills, including collaboration, effective communication, project
management 3. Business and outreach skills, including fundraising and finance, branding and marketing,
entrepreneurship Our goal is to raise awareness of the First Robotics programs, and inspire more students in our community to explore STEM, especially engineering and robotics. We will have multiple robotics teams at different levels to show case our robots and introduce how to build and test robots. Visitors will have fun interaction with robots. Through this activity, we hope to spark curiosity, encourage hands-on learning, and get more kids excited about robotics and STEM and engineering.

How Do Scientists Search for Natural Gas?
2025-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Long Branch Library, 8800 Garland Ave, Silver Spring, 20901, United States
We’ll mimic the search for natural gas beneath the Earth’s surface through a process called core sampling. We’ll talk about what natural gas is used for.

Día de los muertos
2025-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Brooklyn Park Branch Library, 1 East 11th Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21225, United States
Celebrate Día de los Muertos through crafts, activities and more!

Little Adventurers
2025-11-03 11:00 - 11:30 | Emmitsburg Library, 300 South Seton Ave, Emmitsburg, MD, 21727, United States
Children learn and explore through hands on activities using science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts at the library. Caregivers are encouraged to connect with children and participate in the activities!

Little Learners: STEAM, Play, & Learn: Velocity (3-5 years with adult)
2025-11-03 10:00 - 11:00 | Savage Branch Library, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
Ages 3-5 with adult; 45 min. Ticket required.
Playful learning and exploration of STEAM concepts through stories, movement, and hands-on activities.
This class is part of the 2025 Maryland STEM Festival. Click here for the full schedule of classes and events for all ages.

Pumpkin Watch Begins!
2025-11-03 09:00 - 20:00 | Queen Anne’s County Library, 121 S Commerce St, Centreville, MD, 21617, United States
Halloween’s over, but this jack-o’-lantern will be a long-time library resident. Watch it decompose over the next few months, and eventually grow more pumpkin seedlings!

Author Panel: The Art and Science of Conservation-event held at Ebenezer Theater
2025-11-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Ebenezer Theater, 17 S. Washington Street, Easton, MD, 21601, United States
n celebration of the tandem centennial birthdays of the Talbot County Free Library and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, legendary Chesapeake Bay journalist Tom Horton will moderate a panel exploring the art and science of conservation with Creature Needs contributors and award-winning authors Christopher Kondrich and Kyoko Mori. Tickets are free; registration is required.
