EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

Photos by Doug Rogers. For more 2025 photos, see Doug's website.

EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

The South Valley Science and Engineering Initiative (SVSEI) will host our third annual FREE, family friendly, hands-on EXPLORE STEAM FAIR on Saturday, January 24, 2026, at Live Oak High School in the SMALL GYM from 11am-2pm.The fun science, technology, engineering art, and math (STEAM) based activities are geared for TK-12th grade students - with adults welcome to participate too!

What can you expect at EXPLORE'26? Twenty-five activity booths, hosted by 22 activity partners composed of representatives from 12 Morgan Hill Unified School District campuses, plus community organizations, school clubs, city entities, CTE and private school educators, technologists, and nonprofits.

What will there be to do? Have STEAM fun with the following:

Robotics -drivable, coding, drawing, maze running
Scribblebots
Keva planks
Merge EDU cubes
Resin and sand art, gold foiling, glitter planets, critter in a capsule
3D printing
Watershed modeling, vermicomposting, and interactive SW sorting
Balloon hovercrafts
Arduino circuitry builds
Air powered rockets
Straw rockets
Whirligigs
Coding
Coloring
Crocheting
Floating boats challenge and smelling test
Solar ovens
Battery circuitry, marshmallow towers, and straw flutes
Hot Wheels Speedometry
Interactive computer game
Density tubes and cellular respiration labs
UV beads and potting native plants

and more!

While EXPLORE is FREE, we'd appreciate your preregistration at Eventbrite so we can make sure we have enough materials for all our fairgoers. Of course, walk-ins are always welcome.

2025 EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

Hear our director talk about EXPLORE '25 on the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce's Quick 5 Spotify podcast.

The South Valley Science and Engineering Initiative (SVSEI) hosted our second annual free, family friendly, hands-on, EXPLORE STEAM FAIR on March 1, 2025, from 10AM-2PM at Britton Middle School's Student Union Building. Over 225 kids and adults played and learned about science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) from 21 booth partners with the help of 57 volunteers to provid 25 fun activities geared for pre-K to 12th grade students - with adults participating too!

The following are just a few of the parents' comments about

EXPLORE '25:

"My kids didn't want to leave!"

"It was amazing! The interactive activities were like a museum in town."

"Such a cool event!"

EXPLORE '25 's activities and booth partners consisted of:

Gridiron engineering face masks - San Francisco 49ers EDU
Jim Burnham - Scribblebot circuit design and fab
Morgan Hill Historical Society - Making a whirligig
Coyote Grange Maker Faire - Vacuum Forming
City of Morgan Hill - Stormwater Pollution Prevention Activities
Morgan Hill Library -Keva planks
Oakwood School - Programming and Rover Demo
Mark Hoffman - Robot Art
RAAC Academy - LEGOnautics and Crocheting
Sharyn Frentner - The Art and Math of Quilting
Jim Burnham - Paper Air Rockets
Mount Madonna School - Brushbots and QBAs
SVSEI - Wheel of Fortune
PA Walsh STEAM Academy - 3,2,1 - Blast Off !Balloon Rockets
Sobrato High School - Clay Art
Jackson Academy of Math & Music - Candy DNA, Magnetic Momentum, Shaving Cream Rainbow, and Sound & Vibration
San Martin Gwinn - UV beads and Spring Flowers Potting

Thanks so much to our 57 volunteers from the Morgan Hill Kiwanis, AAUW- Morgan Hill, and students from Bay Area high schools. We could not have done it without all of you!

EXPLORE '24 Photos by Doug Rogers; for additional 2024 pictures, see Doug's website.

2024 EXPLORE STEAM FAIR
On August 4, 2024, fair, SVSEI held its inaugural EXPLORE STEAM FAIR. Over 100 community members enjoyed playing and learning about science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) with the following activities:

Soldering for robotics
Reverse engineering
Making a thaumatrope
Vacuum forming
Stormwater pollution prevention activities
Cubelets
2D, 3D, and 2D art with 3D elements
Quilting
Paper rockets
Wheel of Fortune
3D printing pens

Did everyone have fun? Here are some comments from our 2024 EXPLORE STEAM FAIR:

"Best day of my life!" (Elementary aged girl)

"Volunteers took a special interest in our child and insured a positive experience." (Parent)

"Spread the word! This is a great event and more could benefit from it." (Parent)

"Appropriate for all ages." (Parent)

"I loved working with the kids making rockets." (Volunteer)

"Awesome! So much fun!" (Whole family)

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Photos by Doug Rogers. For more 2025 photos, see Doug's website.

EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

Robotics -drivable, coding, drawing, maze running​

Scribblebots

Keva planks

Merge EDU cubes

Resin and sand art, gold foiling, glitter planets, critter in a capsule

3D printing

Watershed modeling, vermicomposting, and interactive SW sorting

Balloon hovercrafts

Arduino circuitry builds

Air powered rockets

Straw rockets

Whirligigs

Coding

Coloring

Crocheting

Floating boats challenge and smelling test

Solar ovens

Battery circuitry, marshmallow towers, and straw flutes

Hot Wheels Speedometry

Interactive computer game

Density tubes and cellular respiration labs

UV beads and potting native plants

and more!​

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While EXPLORE is FREE, we'd appreciate your preregistration at Eventbrite so we can make sure we have enough materials for all our fairgoers. Of course, walk-ins are always welcome.

​ 2025 EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

"My kids didn't want to leave!"

​​

"It was amazing! The interactive activities were like a museum in town."

​

"Such a cool event!"

Gridiron engineering face masks - San Francisco 49ers EDU

Jim Burnham - Scribblebot circuit design and fab

Morgan Hill Historical Society - Making a whirligig

Coyote Grange Maker Faire - Vacuum Forming

City of Morgan Hill - Stormwater Pollution Prevention Activities

Morgan Hill Library -Keva planks

Oakwood School - Programming and Rover Demo

Mark Hoffman - Robot Art

RAAC Academy - LEGOnautics and Crocheting

Sharyn Frentner - The Art and Math of Quilting

Jim Burnham - Paper Air Rockets

Mount Madonna School - Brushbots and QBAs

SVSEI - Wheel of Fortune

PA Walsh STEAM Academy - 3,2,1 - Blast Off !Balloon Rockets

Sobrato High School - Clay Art

Jackson Academy of Math & Music - Candy DNA, Magnetic Momentum, Shaving Cream Rainbow, and Sound & Vibration

San Martin Gwinn - UV beads and Spring Flowers Potting

Thanks so much to our 57 volunteers from the Morgan Hill Kiwanis, AAUW- Morgan Hill, and students from Bay Area high schools. We could not have done it without all of you​​!

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EXPLORE '24 Photos by Doug Rogers; for additional 2024 pictures, see Doug's website.

"Best day of my life!" (Elementary aged girl)

​

"Volunteers took a special interest in our child and insured a positive experience." (Parent)

​

"Spread the word! This is a great event and more could benefit from it." (Parent)

​

"Appropriate for all ages." (Parent)

​

​"I loved working with the kids making rockets." (Volunteer)​

"Awesome! So much fun!" (Whole family)

Photos by Doug Rogers; for additional 2024 pictures, see Doug's website.

Robotics -drivable, coding, drawing, maze running

and more!

2025 EXPLORE STEAM FAIR

Thanks so much to our 57 volunteers from the Morgan Hill Kiwanis, AAUW- Morgan Hill, and students from Bay Area high schools. We could not have done it without all of you!

"I loved working with the kids making rockets." (Volunteer)