Make note of the following Icon Key which will help you quickly see what each booth and experience offers. Be sure to read the details, too - you'll likely find some hidden gems and unexpected interests!
Booths are organized by STEAM pathways and are available throughout the building for students and families to explore career interests by gathering information, engaging in hands-on activities, and more.
Focuses on the essential elements of life, food, water, land, and air. This pathway includes a diverse spectrum of occupations ranging from farmer, wastewater treatment plant operator, and veterinarian to geologist, land conservationist, landscape designer, and florist. It also includes nontraditional agricultural occupations like wind energy, solar energy, and oil and gas production.
Mycopigments: Celebrating Place Thorugh Regional Wild Color
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Mycopigments workshops combine the natural sciences of ecology, biology, mycology, and botany with art, history, chemistry, and the social sciences. In this hands-on demo and information booth, students will discuss these elements, experience the application of color, and ask questions about the business aspects of entrepreneurship.
City of Federal Way - Environmental Services Division
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Get information about STEM careers in Public works and meet engineering and water quality staff. Be sure to take some brochures and giveaways with you, and be on the lookout for hands-on activities!
Washington Native Plant Society - Central Puget Sound Chapter
📝 Information🖐 Hands-on Activity
Get a close up look at the small details of native plants using a dissecting scope and participate in a "scavenger hunt" to identify plants by their characteristics! Handouts about the value of native plants and pollinators in wildlife and the environment will also be present.
Light of Christ Community Garden
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish
⭐ Bronze Sponsor
Do you want to test the PH levels on soil samples? Stop by this booth to test soil, learn about the life cycle of mason bees and plant families, see a garden with plant rotation, and find out how math is used in the garden! You can also play a fin matching game and take home seeds to plant at home!
Federal Way Marine Hills Garden Club
📝 Information
Learn about seeds and cuttings at different levels of growth and view plants on display. Discover the world of horticulture and ask questions to start your own garden!
FWPS School Garden to Cafeteria Program
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Learn how FWPS school gardens are growing and harvesting fresh foods for our cafeterias.
FWPS Nutrition Services
Careers in Food Science and Nutrition
📝 Information
Learn about human nutrition and the basics of digestion and career paths for dieticians. See and take recipe cards and maybe even taste of our crowd-favorite recipes!
Highline College - MaST Center Aquarium
📝 Information
View and touch skulls and pelts of common marine mammals. Also, learn about the aquarium's volunteer program, careers in the marine field, and degree pathways that can be taken at Highline College.
Earthcorps
Envisioning An Equitable World Where All People and Nature Thrive
📝 Information
💬 Spanish, Russian
Get brochures and stickers, and learn about ways to participate in internships or volunteer opportunities through Earthcorps!
Pacific Bonsai Museum
Exploring the Wonder of Bonsai
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
View a living bonsai tree and participate in some hands-on activities. Bonsai is an artform and science, and the museum is only minutes away from the heart of Federal Way!
Washington Department of Natural Resources
Conversations with a Forester
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Students can enjoy hands-on activities and handouts about Washington's natural resources.
Green River College Natural Resources Program!
📝 Information
View forestry tools, a video showcasing class field trips and forestry club events, and grab some brochures about our college program.
Scouting America - Pacific Harbors Council
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Robots, anyone? Stop by to control small robots and participate in other fun hands-on activities, view display boards, and learn about the scouting program!
Lakota Middle School
Lakota's Compost Creepy Crawlies by the Gardening Elective
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Get a close look! Stop by to use a microscope and view finder to look at bugs that are found in compost bins and healthy soil from Lakota's garden. Take a look at displays of the food web, decomposer food web, and individual creatures from the compost bin!
Focuses on the relationship between households to their environment. This program of study integrates studies in human development, family dynamics, food, health, and wellness. Some careers within this pathway include a chef, baker, food production manager, library technician, and facilities manager.
Vickie Chynoweth Realtor
Soang Eagle Investments
📝 Information
Learn about real estate from a real estate agent! Gather brochures and information about becoming a real estate agent and learn about other areas in the profession.
Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care
Federal Way Clinic
📝 Information🖐 Hands-on Activity
Get information about the agency, learn self-care techniques, use stress management and mindfulness tools, including fidget toys.
Yoshi Nakagawa Printmaking
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish, Japanese
View an enrichment display of artwork, visual aids, and tools in the printmaking processes. There will also be information about workshops and art shows currently happening, and a special hands-on linocut activity for attendees to take home a keepsake!
Mycopigments: Celebrating Place Through Regional Wild Color
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Mycopigments workshops combine the natural sciences of ecology, biology, mycology, and botany with art, history, chemistry, and the social sciences. In this hands-on demo and information booth, students will discuss these elements, experience the application of color, and ask questions about the business aspects of entrepreneurship.
HOTWORX Federal Way
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
💬 Spanish
Learn how to get your heart rate up with some exciting exercise workouts offered at the HOTWORX Federal Way studio!
The Trap Lab Fitness Studio
📝 Information
Preview invigorating workout classes through The Trap Lab's fitness app.
Temple Fitness
Learn By Doing & Working in Health and Fitness
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Learn helpful information about basic movements of the human body through guided movement and exercises with athletic equipment. Also, get information on health and nutrition and learn about careers as a physical therapist, personal trainer, nutrition coach, athletic coach, and more!
Phenomenal She - STEAM Clubs
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Engage in quick STEM projects, view a coding demo, and more. Learn about Phenomenal She's Summer STEAM Intensive Program, Coding Club, STEM Club, and Academic Club.
Focuses on running your own business or supporting making a business successful. Some careers in this pathway include web developer or designer, computer technician, stockbroker, accountant, marketing manager, and more.
Amazon Web Services Datacenter Excellence Team
📝 Information
Get information about AWS internship programs, jobs, and what AWS businesses and teams do within Amazon.
Carnegie Learning
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, an professional learning solutions. Visit for fun online and hands-on math activities and resources.
Federal Way Police Department
Bicycle Maintenance
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Watch a demonstration of bike maintenance techniques on a real police mountain bike, then practice your newly learned skills!
Federal Way Police Department
Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU)
📝 Information
View bomb disposal unit equipment and learn how FWPD safely disposes of bombs to keep citizens safe.
Milliman
Actuarial Probability Game
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Will you play to win? Take a chance at the probability game for a chance to win prizes! Then, learn more about analyzing financial costs of risks and uncertainty.
Skill Struck, Inc.
Coding is for Everyone!
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish
Explore computer science, participate in various coding challenges, and learn about the Skill Struck platform which provides a safe, student-facing AI experiences with custom classroom tutors.
Edia
Ensuring Every student Has an Exceptional Education
📝 Information
🌋 Demonstration
Engage with Edia's artificial intelligence (AI) learning model to work through math.
Smart Technologies
📝 Information
From teacher to classroom technology specialist, find out how to navigate a career path in technology from any starting point.
Highline College Mathematics Department
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Play math puzzles for all ages and of varying difficulty. There will be something available to capture all interests. Also, learn about the math department at Highline College.
Premier Real Estate Partners
📝 Information
💬 Arabic
Learn about the real estate industry including the process of becoming a real estate agent.
Pacific Lutheran University STEMinist Club
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
💬 Spanish, Serbian
Participate in a hands-on science experiment.
Pacific Lutheran University Math Club
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish, Serbian
Play some math games and activities that will be easy to access but will have some complex mathematical ideas represented.
Promotes health and wellness and focuses on planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostics services, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research. Careers may include working directly with a patient to diagnose and treat injuries and diseases or working behind the scenes in a laboratory or administrative role. Examples include an anesthesiologist, dentist, speech pathologist, pharmacist, and nurse.
Green River College Nursing
📝 Information
Get information about the nursing career.
South King Fire
📝 Information
Learn how the fire department operates, speak to a fire fighter, and snag some fun SWAG!
Dibble Family Dental
📝 Information
🌋 Demonstration
See pictures of dental surgeries, restorative before and after and radiographs. See an educational skull with real hardware placed in areas of possible trauma and fracture.
MultiCare Health System
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Learn about MultiCare Health System operations and watch and learn from a CPR simulator and staple removal demonstration.
Jex Chiropractic Health Center
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish
See what nerves feel like with a noodle bowl, learn fun facts about the spine and chiropractic care, and play a spine game to test your knowledge!
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Discover Your Future in Healthcare!
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Are you up for the task? See how steady your hands are with a game of operation, spin the wheel for healthcare careers trivia, and gather information about volunteer and healthcare career exploration opportunities. Oh, and get some SWAG, too!
Highline College
Nursing Program
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish
Have you ever seen your veins? Take a look inside your body to look at part of your circulatory system in your arms and hands using infrared technology.
Green River College
Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Learn about Green River's occupational therapy assistant program and participate in a variety of hands-on activities.
University of Washington
UW Bioengineering
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
💬 Mandarin
Watch an interactive demonstration of biomaterials and polymers.
Focuses on designing, producing, planning, managing, and maintaining the built environment, or processing materials into final products. Including the Arts, A/V Technology and Communication Career Cluster, where scholars apply artistic talent to practical problems and learn visual arts principles that equip scholars with the skills and techniques to work in any number of creative design and entertainment fields. Examples include an architect, civil engineer, construction & building inspector, graphic designer, and painter.
Associated Earth Sciences, Inc
Geotechnical Engineering, Hydrogeologic and Geophysics Services
📝 Information
View samples of soil and rock Associated Earth Sciences, Inc. encounters during studies and the lab equipment used for soil testing. Also, see exampled of the materials used in engineering design.
Bassetti Architects
📝 Information
Learn about architecture from Bassetti Architects, and view visuals from architecture projects, and take home fun activities!
BNBuilders
Mahan Design Werx
📝 Information
Learn about graphic design, and view some completed projects including apparel, skateboard, client documents. etc. See digital work on the computer, and view the tools used to create designs.
AmplifyLearn.AI at the University of Washington
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Get familiar with Colleague AI, the artificial intelligence assistant that empowers teachers to streamline with efficiency, and students with personalized learning, plus more!
Green River College
Green River Mechatronics Program
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Use a pneumatic trainer to build and test circuits.
Puget Sound Electrical JATC
📝 Information
Learn about the three electrical career paths offered at Puget Sound Electrical JATC, and how you can become an apprentice leading to a high-paying and rewarding career.
REI Co-op Brands Team
📝 Information
View some REI products, then dive into the process of bringing the design from an idea to reality!
Structural Engineering Association of Washington
Earthquake Simulator
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Test your building skills! Build spaghetti towers and test their strength on a shake table that simulated an earthquake.
Highline College
Highline College Engineering Department
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
View live demonstrations, which may include LEGO robots, laser-cut 3D puzzles, and pressure sensor models. Learn about Highline's engineering program.
Green River College
Green River College Carpentry
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
View a 1:8 scale model of a house structure, and play an interactive game to win SWAG!
Lakehaven Water & Sewer District
📝 Information
View videos about Lakehaven's water supply and sewer service and samples of wastewater products.
FWPS Capital Projects
📝 Information
Learn about the role FWPS Capital Projects plays in bringing architect design, building, and other teams together to create and enhance school buildings.
FORMA Construction
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
⭐ Silver Sponsor
Build a construction site with "brick" boxes and/or build a take-home crane/wrecker! There will also be information materials to share with students and families about construction.
INTEGRUS
📝 Information
View interactive model elements, drawings, and videos. Try hands-on architectural tools for physical and 3D modeling. Learn about the architecture process, and take home company brochures with more information.
Burman Design
Burman Design Engineering and Consulting
📝 Information
💬 Korean
View a digital display of company work including sample projects for visual aids. Be on the lookout for SWAG, too!
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions
📝 Information
Get information about the full-service, design-build mechanical contractor in the Pacific Northwest.
Society of Physics Students of Green River college
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Explore physics concepts through multiple demonstrations for attendees of all ages! At this booth, you will awaken your passion for physics as you learn interesting facts through engaging conversation.
Just-Evotec Biologics
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Learn about the companies development and manufacturing services for antibody, next-generation biologics, and biosimilar products through an information display and representatives. Experiment with games that reinforce your learning.
SBI - US Enterprises
📝 Information🌋 Demonstration
See various STEAM furnishings in the classroom and how they help facilitate the highest levels of learning!
Turner Construction
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Take a VR tour of a building currently being built by Turner Construction. Construct a building with Legos, put together a wood puzzle, and view all the various buildings the companies built worldwide in 2023.
Highline College
Bring Your Kids to College STEAM Workshops
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
View a 3D printer in operation, get bookmarks about STEAM workshops and 3D printed robot pendants, then personalize them with accessories!
Green River College
Green River Trades
📝 Information
Learn about trades programs at Green River College and examine materials and equipment that provide an insight to what each trade is about.
PCS Structual Solutions
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
Wondering what structural engineers do? Stop by this booth to learn all about it! Attendees can observe and interact with small-scale models and modeling kits to get a basic understanding of engineering principles, view sets of construction drawings to see how they turn into real-world buildings, and more. You can also learn about various careers in architecture, mechanical engineering, and construction management!
Bring Your Kids to College STEAM Workshops
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
💬 Indonesian
Watch us print 3D medallions and decorate your own necklace or keychain! Also, get information about our program.
Bassetti Architects
📝 Information
Learn about architecture from Bassetti Architects, and view visuals from architecture projects, and take home fun activities!
Evergreen Middle School
Evergreen First Lego League Robotics and Robotics: "Candy Coders"
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
CTE Feature
Learn about Evergreen Middle School's First Lego League Robotics season as Evergreen Robotics class guides attendees to program the robots and retrieve a piece of candy.
Evergreen Middle School
Evergreen Pre-Engineering: Design and Modeling
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
CTE Feature
Hear about the 3D printed items students produced this year. Also, be sure to stop by their Isometric Sketching workshop, where you can sketch your initials!
Evergreen Middle School
Evergreen Flight and Space: "How to Fly a Plane"
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
CTE Feature
Participate in an exciting activity to learn how to fly a plane.
Brigadoon Elementary
Legendary Brigadoon Robot Builders
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
🌋 Demonstration
💬 Spanish, Lao
CTE Feature
View robotics in action, with an opportunity to code a robot to see how the robotics movements and task completion work.
Kilo Middle School
Kilo Engineering and Flight and Space
📝 Information
🌋 Demonstration
CTE Feature
Watch Kilo students demonstrate flight using a cardboard wind tunnel and the use of a flight simulator. Will also display gear ratios LEGOS.
Star Lake Elementary
Build a Marshmallow Catapult with Star Lake Engineers
📝 Information
🌋 Demonstration
Watch a demonstration and help build a marshmallow catapult to learn about simple machines and engineering.
FWPS LEGO Robotics
🌋 Demonstration
Watch FWPS LEGO robotics demonstrations from:
Olympic View K8
Valhalla
FWPS FIRST Robotics
🌋 Demonstration
CTE Feature
Watch FWPS FIRST Robotics demonstrations from:
Federal Way HS
Todd Beamer HS
Thomas Jefferson HS
FWPS Sphero Clubs
🌋 Demonstration
Watch FWPS Coding and Innovation clubs demonstrate Sphero robots navigate through a maze:
Green Gables
Valhalla
Lake Dolloff Elementary
Lake Dolloff Dolphins: Built to Last
📝 Information
🌋 Demonstration
Scholars will build paper houses and then demonstrate how their construction protects them from the weather.
Silver Lake Elementary
Birdhouses
📝 Information
View birdhouses build by Silver Lake second grade students. There may also be a special appearance by a live bird, too! 🐦
Lakeland Elementary
Lakeland STEM: Animate It!
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Bring your drawing to life! Stop by this booth to turn your sketch into a simple animation.
Federal Way Public Academy
Physical Science and Earth
📝 Information
Learn about renewable and non-renewable energy from three FWPA students.
This pathway will feature two-year colleges, four-year universities, trade/vocational schools, apprenticeships, the workforce, and the military. They will showcase opportunities for high school graduates to work in or train for a STEM field, focused on high school juniors and seniors.
Green River College - Cybersecurity & Networking Program
📝 Information
Wondering what a cyberattack looks like? Find out with GRC's Cybersecurity and Networking Program. View live cyberattacks, get brochures for the AAS-T Cybersecurity & Networking degree, as well as buttons, stickers, and other giveaway items.
IGNITE Worldwide
📝 Information
💬 Cantonese
IGNITE supports and inspires girls and gender-diverse students to explore the STEM field. At this booth, learn about the company, upcoming IGNITE events, and snag some swag, such as stickers and pins!
DigiPen Institute of Technology
📝 Information
DigiPen is a private 4-year college in Redmond, WA that focuses on computer science, game design, digital art and animation, and music and audio. Come learn about the campus and degree programs, and fill out an interest survey to get more information.
Federal Aviation Administration
Flight Simulators and Careers in Aviation
📝 Information🖐 Hands-on Activity
Visit the FFA to take to the sky! Use flight simulators and Air Traffic Control simulators and gather information and giveaway SWAG! ✈️
University of Washington
Informatics Program
📝 Information
Get information about the Informatics major at UW.
PLU Army ROTC
📝 Information
Get information about attending Pacific Lutheran University and learn how to apply for Army ROTC scholarships.
Highline College
📝 Information
💬 Spanish, Samoan
Get information and print materials about college programs and services at Highline, and participate in various STEAM activities that will leave you in awe!
Imagine Learning
📝 Information🖐 Hands-on Activity
💬 Spanish
Practice how to code in English and Spanish, and practice math facts, too!
Bates Technical College
📝 Information
💬 Spanish
Learn about the career programs offered at Bates Technical College, located in Tacoma, Washington. The college offers Associate degrees, academic certificates, and industry certifications.
Puget Sound Skills Center (PSSC)
📝 Information
💬 Spanish
Gather information about the Puget Sound Skills Center which offers 21 exciting programs for 11th and 12th grade students to choose from in Aeronautical Science, Design & Marketing, Digital Sound Recording, Video Game Programming, and more! Pick up some giveaways, too!
Sylvan Learning of Federal Way
🖐 Hands-on Activity
Try out coding on laptops and engage in other fun STEM activities.
Green River College - Career and Advising Center
📝 Information
Learn about the STEM, Trades, and CTE programs at Green River College and the transfer opportunities to a 4-year college.
Green River College - Aviation Technology
Carlton Lawson, Green River College Aviation
📝 Information
Get information and flyers about Green River's Aviation Technology program, plus some aviation merchandise!
Green River College - Cybersecurity & Networking Program
📝 Information
Wondering what a cyberattack looks like? Find out with GRC's Cybersecurity and Networking Program. View live cyberattacks, get brochures for the AAS-T Cybersecurity & Networking degree, as well as buttons, stickers, and other giveaway items.
University of Washington - Tacoma
Science and Mathematics
📝 Information
Get brochures about majors, including mathematics, environmental science, biomedical science, and environmental sustainability. Speak with representatives about the college and programs.
Pacific Lutheran University
Opportunities in STEM
📝 Information
Find out about all the different STEM programs offered at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), one of our guaranteed college admissions partners, located in Parkland, WA.
Red-Tailed Hawks Aviation Youth Program
📝 Information🖐 Hands-on Activity
The Red-Tailed Hawks Aviation Youth Program offers an exciting summer FLY program for students 16-21. Learn about how you can begin learning the rules of the sky, plus test your knowledge of plans by spinning the Wheel of Aviation! ✈️
Pacific Lutheran University
Bounce into Chemistry with Bubbles, Balls, and Buddies
📝 Information
🖐 Hands-on Activity
How different can bubbles be? Find out by testing different bubble made from different solutions. If you're already thinking about college, you're in luck - current undergraduate Chemistry students will share about their experience in the program, and you can learn about PLU's Chem Club and community activities to get plugged into chemistry.
Explore Events by Category
STEAM Exploration Night offers many experiences for students of all ages. We invite you to explore and attend the annual STEAM Film Festival, panel discussion, experience rooms, CTE features, demonstrations, and more!
STEAM Exploration Night is a two-story event with endless opportunities for students and families to explore STEAM. The online program includes all information included in our print program and more!
Explore Booths by Pathway
In this section, you can expand each pathway accordion by clicking the yellow "+" symbol to see all partner and school booths within the pathway. Each booth card contains the information including the organization or school, title of booth, type of booth, languages spoken at the booth, and a detailed description of what the booth has to offer.
Explore Events by Category
Expand this section by clicking the yellow '+" symbol to see all experiences including demonstrations, workshops, and more offered during the event. Experiences are grouped in two main categories: Drop-in Experiences which you can participate at any time during the evening, and Scheduled Events which have specific start and end times.
As an option, you can also filter experiences by tags. This will narrow down your results in case you only want to see experiences for a certain age group or other defined criteria.
For additional help, please reach out to stemexpo@fwps.org. For help at the event, please visit the Helpdesk.