Minds-on, Hands-on Activities

In the afternoon at IdeaFestival Bowling Green, participants get the opportunity to see ideas in action and make their own ideas come to life. Our minds-on, hands-on activities allow participants to create, experiment, and experience — and to talk one-on-one with scientists, artists, educators, and entrepreneurs.

 

IFBG Activities 2022

• virtual reality with WKU's new XR Lab

• 3D printing pens from the WKU Small Business Accelerator

• creating and building with the Warren County Public Library Idea Lab

• technology for those with visual impairment from American Printing House for the Blind
  

• hands-on biology with Dr. Keith Phillips

• a letterpress from WKU chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design

• mural-painting with artist Andee Rudloff

• computer activities with teacher Jennifer Pemberton

• Speaker Chats with all of the morning's guests

• STEM activities with the Kentucky Science Center

• geology with Professor Margaret Crowder

• creative writing with Scholastic National Student Poet Christian Butterfield

• dance with WKU's National Dance Education Organization

• entrepreneurial lessons from WKU's Collegiate Entrepreneurs organization

• typewriters, letterpress, and stamps from artist Leslie Nichols

• engineering with WKU's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  

• art and poetry with WKU's Blaq Art Nouveau

• entrepreneurship with Accelerate Kentucky

• smartphone microscopes with Rico Tyler
  
• art and music installation by speaker Robbie Hunsinger

 

 

 

Watch highlights from the activities at
IdeaFestival Bowling Green 2020 
Land and Legacy: Building Ideas That Will Last 

Video courtesy of Vid Monster Productions.

  

Watch highlights from the activities at
IdeaFestival Bowling Green 2019: The Future Is Now 

Video courtesy of Vid Monster Productions.

 

Watch highlights from the activities at
IdeaFestival Bowling Green 2018: 
What's the Big Idea? 

Video courtesy of Vid Monster Productions.