IdeaFestival Bowling Green is an annual one-day celebration of ideas and imagination designed to inspire the next generation of creators, thinkers, and innovators. Hosted by The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU since 2014 and created in cooperation with the original IdeaFestival® in Louisville, our event brings passionate and motivated middle and high school students and interested community members from throughout the region to the WKU campus for a morning of speaker sessions and an afternoon of minds-on, hands-on activities. The whole day highlights innovation, curiosity, entrepreneurship, community engagement, and creativity across a variety of fields.

The day will begin with registration from 8-9:00 a.m. CST at Van Meter Hall. Starting at 9:00 a.m. CST, there will be two speaker sessions with a break in between. Around 11:30, participants will start to go to lunch in shifts and start to explore the activities at the Downing Student Union. The activities will be open until 3:00 CST. If your school needs to leave early, we can schedule you for one of the earlier lunchtimes, but the activities will not be available until 11:30. 

Tickets are $25. This cost includes lunch. Schools receive one free chaperone ticket for every 10 students plus a free bus driver ticket.

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