The Guide

The Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival is a weeklong local community event that brings awareness to STEM activities, experiences, resources, and career opportunities throughout Southern Nevada. There are events happening all around town.

Get in touch with your inner scientist at the Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival’s biggest event: The Giant Science and Technology Expo at the World Market Center! It's a full day of one-of-a-kind science and technology experiences and entertainment.

Free, but they would like you to reserve your spot.

Celebrate the magic of butterflies while enjoying a weekend of fun, education, and entertainment for all ages. Experience a butterfly release, explore Jurassic Mariposa with animatronic dinosaurs, enjoy two days of live music, a petting zoo, train rides, stilt walkers, jugglers, and silk aerialists.

Also, you can visit Fairy Village for storytime with Miranda the Forest Fairy, tackle an obstacle course, and learn about butterflies and pollinators in Habitat Row, featuring a 40-foot caterpillar exhibit.

Saturday from 10 to 6 and Sunday from 10 to 4.

The four-day festival features over 30 immersive experiences and special events led by local historian, including guided tours, educational seminars, community events, scenic drives, cocktail parties, and speaker presentations. They will transport you to the Vegas of yesteryear while offering unique insights into its architectural transformation – from a small railroad town to a growing, modern city.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Home + History Las Vegas is the valley’s largest annual heritage festival.

Celebrate the magic of butterflies while enjoying a weekend of fun, education, and entertainment for all ages. Experience a butterfly release, explore Jurassic Mariposa with animatronic dinosaurs, enjoy two days of live music, a petting zoo, train rides, stilt walkers, jugglers, and silk aerialists.

Also, you can visit Fairy Village for storytime with Miranda the Forest Fairy, tackle an obstacle course, and learn about butterflies and pollinators in Habitat Row, featuring a 40-foot caterpillar exhibit.

Saturday from 10 to 6 and Sunday from 10 to 4.

The four-day festival features over 30 immersive experiences and special events led by local historian, including guided tours, educational seminars, community events, scenic drives, cocktail parties, and speaker presentations. They will transport you to the Vegas of yesteryear while offering unique insights into its architectural transformation – from a small railroad town to a growing, modern city.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Home + History Las Vegas is the valley’s largest annual heritage festival.

Experience a magical weekend of knights in shining armor clashing swords, jousting, epic archery competitions, and thrilling axe throwing contests. Immerse yourself in a realm where history and fantasy meld, where ancient legends and enchanting fables come to life. Get ready for an unforgettable adventure filled with wonder and excitement.

Through the exhibit, visitors will be able to virtually traverse Nevada’s mountain ranges and see 20 fossils excavated between 1868 and 2022 before encountering a life-sized, virtually animated ichthyosaur that responds to movement. They can also see the 6.5-foot(!) skull of University of Bonn professor Martin Sander’s discovery, Cymbospondylus youngorum, from Nevada’s Augusta Mountains.

Fun fact: Cymbospondylus youngorum was the first giant animal to inhabit the globe and is named after Tom and Bonda Young, inventors of Icky (for “ichthyosaur”) IPA beer at their Great Basin Brewing Company in Reno and Sparks. The species is named after the Youngs in recognition both of fundraisers they held at the brewery to support Sander’s expedition and their transporting the whole skeleton encased in plaster from the Augustas to Los Angeles County’s Natural History Museum in the company’s beer truck.

Also at the exhibition, two new ichthyosaur species will make their debut. There will be exhibits dedicated to fossil hunters Mary Anning and Annie Alexander, in conjunction with a children’s book about Alexander and her discoveries. Children will also be able to enjoy the collection of vintage toy dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, as well as depictions of extinct marine creatures created by artists in collaboration with scientists.

Through the exhibit, visitors will be able to virtually traverse Nevada’s mountain ranges and see 20 fossils excavated between 1868 and 2022 before encountering a life-sized, virtually animated ichthyosaur that responds to movement. They can also see the 6.5-foot(!) skull of University of Bonn professor Martin Sander’s discovery, Cymbospondylus youngorum, from Nevada’s Augusta Mountains.

Fun fact: Cymbospondylus youngorum was the first giant animal to inhabit the globe and is named after Tom and Bonda Young, inventors of Icky (for “ichthyosaur”) IPA beer at their Great Basin Brewing Company in Reno and Sparks. The species is named after the Youngs in recognition both of fundraisers they held at the brewery to support Sander’s expedition and their transporting the whole skeleton encased in plaster from the Augustas to Los Angeles County’s Natural History Museum in the company’s beer truck.

Also at the exhibition, two new ichthyosaur species will make their debut. There will be exhibits dedicated to fossil hunters Mary Anning and Annie Alexander, in conjunction with a children’s book about Alexander and her discoveries. Children will also be able to enjoy the collection of vintage toy dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, as well as depictions of extinct marine creatures created by artists in collaboration with scientists.

Through the exhibit, visitors will be able to virtually traverse Nevada’s mountain ranges and see 20 fossils excavated between 1868 and 2022 before encountering a life-sized, virtually animated ichthyosaur that responds to movement. They can also see the 6.5-foot(!) skull of University of Bonn professor Martin Sander’s discovery, Cymbospondylus youngorum, from Nevada’s Augusta Mountains.

Fun fact: Cymbospondylus youngorum was the first giant animal to inhabit the globe and is named after Tom and Bonda Young, inventors of Icky (for “ichthyosaur”) IPA beer at their Great Basin Brewing Company in Reno and Sparks. The species is named after the Youngs in recognition both of fundraisers they held at the brewery to support Sander’s expedition and their transporting the whole skeleton encased in plaster from the Augustas to Los Angeles County’s Natural History Museum in the company’s beer truck.

Also at the exhibition, two new ichthyosaur species will make their debut. There will be exhibits dedicated to fossil hunters Mary Anning and Annie Alexander, in conjunction with a children’s book about Alexander and her discoveries. Children will also be able to enjoy the collection of vintage toy dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, as well as depictions of extinct marine creatures created by artists in collaboration with scientists.