May 6, 2025 —

It's time to say goodbye!

After 21 years (we've only missed two of them, one of the two being the COVID year), we've run out of steam. We've made many friends, and welcomed over 200,000 visitors to our tent since we started in 2004. We thank every one of you for your support and enthusiasm, and for welcoming us to Conservation World each year. We were particularly overjoyed when kids dragged their parents back to our tent year after year, and then, some of them became parents themselves and brought their own kids to our tent. But it's time for us to step back and let this adventure go on without us.

We're leaving our website up to share some photos and memories of this great adventure. We hope it may bring back some fond memories for you also.

Our wonderful "Soma cube puzzle" was on our front lawn to challenge our visitors. 

Please enjoy some of our photos from our activities at the Fair.

Check out our daily update of our activities and attendance at the Fair.

Most of the experiments that we performed in our tent and many more may be found on our Resources for Educators page.

Here are the links to:

• Map and directions to and in the fairgrounds
• Descriptions of some of the experiments you may have seen in our tent.
• The chemistry and science quiz that was running in our tent.
• The list of over 220 experiments to do with young kids.
• Link to the full list of educational resources available on the CD distributed to educators.

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Some Photos from Our Years at the Fair:

 

A consortium of Illinois Sections of the American Chemical Society hosts a booth at the Illinois State Fair.   We presented a variety of exciting chemistry demonstrations and hands-on activities suitable for young students, as well as an interactive simple chemistry quiz.