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The STREAM Festival is an annual event hosted by the Service Learning & Volunteer Center, in partnership with various campus departments. It originally started in 2005 as the Math and Science Fair. After ten years, we switched the name to The STREAM Festival because every great scientist must have a passion for Reading and Writing, and we included Arts because science is full of creativity and artistic talent.

STREAM stands for Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

We welcome all disciplines to participate, but ask that all projects be flavored with STEM. The event is originally set-up like a festival filled with 75-100 outdoor booths and labs with hands-on STEM focused projects. This year due to the COVID Pandemic, all of our activities will be pre-recorded for the community to access virtually. This year's Virtual STREAM projects have been created by MiraCosta College students, CSUSM students, MiraCosta Faculty, MiraCosta departments, and community partners. The festival promotes a passion for learning across the disciplines, with a STEM foundation.

In past semesters we had 100 booths, 45 courses represented, several community partners, approximately 400 student and staff presenters, and 40 volunteers! A few of the courses and clubs that are represented each year are: Math, Architecture and Design, Biology, Anthropology, English, Chemistry, Horticulture, IT Club, Psychology, Oceanography, Nutrition, Music, GSA, BSU, Umoja, Equity, Photography, Arts, Sociology, Child Development, Medical Billing, Associated Student Government, ICC, Math Club, Outreach, and our very own Technical Career Institute.

MiraCosta invites the local preschools, elementary schools, middle schools and their families, after school programs and local non-profit organizations that serve the K-8th grade age group. This yearly free outreach event serves to promote college and STEM!