Maryland STEMFest

2025 STEM Festival: Energy

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is proud to participate in The Maryland STEM Festival, a month-long celebration of programming that fosters the joy of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and promotes STEM-based careers.

Explore this year’s theme, Energy, at Library locations across the city from October 17 – November 16, 2025. By the end of the festivities, you will learn that: "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another."

STEM Festival programming is intended for ages 8–11; however, all ages are welcome!

STEMFest Celebration

Join us for the first annual STEMFest celebration at the Central Library on November 1, 2025 from 10 am–2 pm. Visit with community partners, view the PBS Documentary Changes in the Wind, enjoy a live interactive science show with Eric Energy, head to our Children's Department for a STEM-themed storytime about whirligigs, connect with local schools, build LEGO®, and participate in STEM-themed activities!

Free books and FutureMaker STEM kits will be available while supplies last!

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is a proud partner of the Maryland STEM Festival  Inc. (MSF).

2025 Book Spotlight: Whirligigs, by Carole Boston Weatherford

Take a journey through the creative process that led folk artist Vollis Simpson to create his wonderful and whimsical wind-powered whirligigs and more in this STEAM/STEM picture book. 

Join us on Saturday, November 1 to hear New York Times Best Seller and award winner Carole Boston Weatherford discuss her picture book Whirligigs and receive a free copy of her book (while supplies last). 

Maryland STEM Fest Events

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  Build It

  Put your engineering & construction skills to the test in these fun STEM activities. Build a kite, a speed boat, and…

  Central Library

  April 4, 1 PM
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  Growing Up Green with Wildlife Adventures

  This program aims to teach simple ways that children can help wildlife through their everyday actions.  Animals that…

  Southeast Anchor

  April 6, 4:30 PM
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  Clay Tunes: Sing & Play with Ancient Instruments

  Learn about the unique sounds of little-known sculptural ceramic instruments of the ancient Americas through games, songs…

  Herring Run

  April 8, 11:30 AM
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  Fantastical Mystic Mapmakers

  Join us for Fantastical Mystic Mapmakers! We’ll explore amazing fantasy maps, then design our own worlds using beans…

  Hamilton

  April 9, 4 PM

Community Partners

Resource tables at STEMFest will be hosted  by the following: