PRESENTERS / EXHIBITORS

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The goal of The Children’s Water Festival is to allow students to dive deeper into water related issues that face the South Platte River Basin, where our food comes from and how to be better stewards of our natural resources.

2024 – 2025 CHILDREN’S WATER FESTIVAL DATES

Spring Festival - Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Fall Festival - Tuesday, October 1, 2025

Take a look at past festivals.

2024 Fall Video

2024 Spring Video

2023 Spring Video

Trout Unlimited presenting at the Children's Water Festival.

PRESENTERS & EXHIBITORS NEEDED!

You don’t need to be a professional educator
to be a great presenter!

The goal of The Children’s Water Festival is to allow students to dive deeper into water related issues that face the South Platte River Basin, where our food comes from and how to be better stewards of our natural resources.

Presenters teach the same lesson as students rotate to stations throughout the day.There are approximately 15 to 25 students in each rotation. Each rotation is 25 -minutes with a 10-minute prep time in between presentations. Breakfast and a catered lunch with drinks will be provided to all presenters and exhibitors.

We are looking for presenters & exhibitors that can provide a content-rich hands-on activity that correlates with today’s water issues and the history of water in the South Platte River Basin and across Colorado.

We are looking for industry experts to present on topics that pertain to:

• History of Colorado water
• History of the South Platte River Basin
• Water use in farming
• Geography of the South Platte River Basin
• Water use in ranching
• Geology of the South Platte River Basin
• Water use in agriculture
• Colorado wildlife
• Irrigation
• Water engineering
• Colorado Water Law
• Water hazards
• Farm equipment / displays
• Irrigation equipment / displays

Children's Water Festival students enjoying the Jeff and Paige Show.

City of Thornton presenting to students at the 2024 festival.

Presenter Resources

Spring Presenter | Exhibitor Registration
Fall Presenter | Exhibitor Registration
Contact Information
Spring Presenter | Exhibitor Logistics
Sample Schedule
Sample Station Maps
Fall Presenter | Exhibitor Logistics

Additional Resources

Be part of the 2024 – 2025 Children’s Water Festival!

Meet a few of our amazing presenters and exhibitors!

Central Colorado Water Conservancy District’s oldest and most continuous education program is the Children’s Water Festival. First presented in 1991, it is the second oldest water festival in the country. The Children’s Water Festival is a one-day FREE outdoor event bringing professionals from around the state to support 4th and 5th grade students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) while meeting science academic standards and Common Core State Standards.

A1 Organics

Adams County

Applegate Group, Inc

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

City of Greeley

City of Thornton

Colorado Master Gardeners

Colorado Rural Water Association

Colorado State Land Board

CSU Spur

Fort Lupton Fire Department

Greeley Fire Department

Metro Water Recovery

Natures Educators

National Weather Service

Northern Water

Poudre Learning Center

Republican Services

Rocky Mountain Flycasters

The Garden on Spring Creek

Town of Windsor

US Forest Service

White Water Canoe

Weld County

A few testimonials from our presenters.

It is brilliant and flexible. The pledge of allegiance was moving and a great addition!

Congratulations on once again creating fabulous learning! So good to have kids outside! The emergency contact info so clearly given is so very smart.

Super well organized and so amazing all the presenters and students. I love the Jeff & Paige environmental music. It was cool and the Fort folks I think really liked having that time so you might want to leave as is. Very cool place and the costumed Historic folks were welcoming.

It was a great day and I really enjoyed it!

These festivals are so well thought-out and planned. I thought the day went amazing! Thank you, Tammy and team! :)

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