Observe and feed corals and anemones. Try out field gear used to collect underwater samples. Decorate a tentacle to help create a STEM Girl Day jellyfish.

Tie-dye fabric to learn about solubility and create a unique design.

Unleash your creativity and design imaginative STEM images. Explore AI design, edit prompts, and bring wild ideas to life with AI-powered tools.

Math does not just live in our textbooks. It is in our world and far beyond it. Explore the ways that math surrounds us every day on Earth and in outer space.

Learn about local history, crafting in different cultures, and math-solving strategies. Preview the free learning opportunities during the 2026 Central Texas Learning Festival from Wednesday, March 11, 2026, through Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Play medical jeopardy and explore medical trivia with health professions students.

Explore how medicines work. Discover how different pills dissolve at different speeds, like real-life medications designed for fast or slow release.

Protect and clean up a micro-beach environment from an oil spill.

We are not quite ready for a paperless society, because there are so many cool things you can make with paper. Join us as we reshape, transform, cut down and take flight.

Navigate a roundabout as a driver, cyclist, or pedestrian. Learn about traffic safety, explore intersection design, and discover inspiring individuals in transportation.

Check out the photo booth and activies table. Interactive mock trials will take place every hour beginning at 11:30 a.m.

Learn about the wonders of physics that impact daily life. Watch physics demonstrations, answer physics questions, and volunteer for interactive experiments.

Explore interactive physics demonstrations, such as plasma balls, double cones, and chaotic pendulums.

Join us in our inflatable planetarium as we explore some of the amazing stars, constellations, and planets that can be seen in the Austin sky tonight.

Is it possible to separate plastic from substances, like water, sand, and mud? Answer this questions through an activity and consider how you would approach cleaning up the environment.

Learn about plant parts, what they need to thrive, and why they are important in our ecosystem.

Learn to use a power drill from engineers dressed as princesses. Take home a souvenir constellation projector kit.

Learn to program and control flashing, color-changing LEDs using a computer and an Arduino board.

Test the flow of water through different materials. Learn about permeability and the ideal materials for reservoirs.

Discover how to transform recycled materials into your own creations using our miniature injection molder, extruder, and polarizing microscope. Learn about the recycling process.

Create and test a hook to pull a capsule from water to dry land.

Explore how engineers design robots to interact with people using sensors, mechanical actuators, and computer programs.

Check out robots, including a chess robot, a competition robot, and a robotic couch on wheels.

Check out robot demonstrations and learn how the robots work. Watch a self-balancing robot roll around, draw a sketch for a robot to copy, or interact with a robo-arm.

Create your own rockin roller coaster.