Gifted Atlanta

Admittedly, the past few years I’ve done a not-so-great job of giving advance notice about the Atlanta Science Festival, a two-week festival with dozens of activities for kids, teens, and adults. I tend to see an article about it in the newspaper right before it starts, and by then, all the spots for popular activities have already been taken.

Not this year.

The 2025 Atlanta Science Festival is a little over a month away. It starts March 8 and continues until March 22. The festival website says there are more than 100 activities, many of them hands-on.

The festival will kick off on Saturday, March 8 with Celebrate STEAM at Georgia Tech, a collection of exhibits on the Georgia Tech campus. Over the two weeks that follow, there will be dozens of events in a variety of disciplines. Looking just at the first weekend’s events on the website, topics include animal biomechanics, hydroponic farming, nature journaling, botanical illustration, geology, snakes, ice cream, historic preservation, and a lot more.

As usual, the festival will culminate in the Exploration Expo, a free event with more than 100 informative and interactive booths, Saturday, March 22 at Piedmont Park.

The festival website allows you to search for events by date, topic, audience (age group), or area of town (by ZIP code). You can also search by price to see only the free events.

Many of the planned events require advance registration and have a limited number of spaces.