Organizations participating in our STEM Fair
- Academy of Natural Sciences will be helping kids build their own board games that other kids can then play with.
- ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships will be running Chess and Scrabble games.
- Asthma Rangers will be informing parents on how to deal with your child’s asthma.
- Author Tracey Baptiste, will be signing free copies of her NY Times Best Seller: “Minecraft: The Crash”
- Clean Air Council will demonstrate how solar power, powers your home.
- Chutes and Ladders will be up and running at the STEM Fair – a giant version of this classic game with a PCCY spin!
- Coded By Kids will be running Coding Workshops at 11am, 2pm and 3:30pm
- Education Works will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers.
- ESF Summer Camps will be giving out information on Minecraft specific summer camps.
- ESteem Girls will be doing a math marble maze activity
- Facepainting by Annette – specializing in Minecraft designs (there’s a fee).
- Fairmount WaterWorks Interpretive Center will be bringing their mobile mussel hatchery.
- Franklin Institute will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers.
- Free Library of Philadelphia will be building small robots with kids
- Garden State Discovery Museum will be making monochromatic butterfly’s with kids
- Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers.
- Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers.
- Minecraft Arts and Crafts Activities with more than 10 different activities all at one station.
- Minecraft Karaoke will have kids singing their hearts out to Minecraft tunes.
- Minecraft Merchandise Store will feature many of your kids favorite items (there’s a fee)
- MoveMakers Philly will do a performance at 4pm on the physics of break dancing.
- PECO Energy will bring their electric house display demonstrating the difference between lighting and energy efficient lighting.
- Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General will conduct a workshop for parents: Social Media 101 – What Parents and Educators Need to Know – at 1pm
- Philadelphia Fire Department will send a fire truck for kids to explore between Noon and 2pm.
- Philadelphia Office of Sustainability will help you prepare for hotter and wetter weather in Philadelphia.
- Philadelphia Zoo will work with kids on building a home for one of four different animals.
- Public Citizens for Children and Youth will have a table telling you about all of our programs including signing kids up for health care coverage
- Raising of America will be previewing their documentary every hour on the hour starting at 11am
- Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education will bring a variety of found objects and demonstrate their use.
- Screenwave Media will be previewing new video games
- Snapology will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers and selling some products (there’s a fee)
- Team Children will be informing parents about their low cost – or even free – computer options
- TechGirlz will be running a STEM Activity for gamers and nongamers in the STEM Fair but will also be doing coding workshops for girls at 12:30pm and 4pm – email stemcraft@childrenfirstpa.org to get on the waiting list.
- TooManyGames will be previewing new video games