The Verde Valley SciTech Festival has 75 events throughout the region for children to choose between this year. Kids could choose to attend all of them, taking place at the Sedona, Camp Verde, Cottonwood and Beaver Creek libraries, elementary schools, parks and miscellaneous venues. “… SciTech Institute said that this is the biggest festival that they have statewide, the Verde Valley, beating Maricopa.”Camp Verde Community Library Children’s Librarian Letticia Ancira said, while the ecosystem is strong, it still needs to be nurtured in children’s education. “So I’m like, ‘I even want to go to some of these.’”The festival is organized by the Verde Valley STREAM Council, which stands for Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Art and Math. “It started actually as a grant funding organization, they were part of a greater National Science Foundation grant, and so that’s how Verde Valley STREAM Council began,” Altringer said.