Sat 10/27 - Third Eye Comics Halloween Comic-Fest - Free comics, free candy and big savings. Third Eye’s events are always like a mini-Comic Con and being Halloween, it should be an extra great time to get out and show off your costume or see what others show up as.

Maryland STEM Festival - 480+ events all around MD, from makerspaces to libraries to schools, all kinds of groups are participating. Check the MD STEM Festival website for information about events in your area!

Sat 10/27 - MD-National Capital Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC)’s is hosting their Annual STEAM Fest in Upper Marlboro to bring out the inner STEAM power in PG Co’s youth by providing engaging and fun programming in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math.

Many halloween events coming up including:

ArBOOretum at the Cylburn Arboretum (Baltimore) tomorrow night (10/26) where kids can explore the spooky mansion, trick or treat around the gardens, listen to creepy music and learn about bats, owls, spiders and other nocturnal wildlife with DNR Naturalists. Live raptors and reptiles from Carrie Murray Nature Center as well as El Gringo and Wilde Thyme Food trucks and seasonal food items like hot soup, apple rings, pumpkin beignets, hot cider and cocoa!

Also BOOtanica at Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, also tomorrow night (10/26). Garden costume parade, paint a pumpkin, treat pumpkin treats, top the evening off by listening to award-winning storyteller Gary Lloyd present “Pumpkin Tales for the Young”, with stories more funny than scary.

Sunday 10/28 - Silver spring Crafts - Desserts & Sweets Fair

Art Farm - Annapolis

Sat 10/27 - Drop In Art Classes for ages 2-6 - Each drop-in is guided by a local artist and your children will explore color, texture, pattern making and more.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sat 10/17 - Old Fashioned glazed Christmas Trees

Sun 10/28 - Homemade Clay Ornaments

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park - Ellicott City

Sat 10/27 - Preserving the Harvest Workshop - Historic interpreters demonstrate Federal Period techniques for preserving foods. Very limited space, register early. $25/person

AACPL

~10/15-11/12 - Anne Arundel County STEM Festival 

Tonight 10/25 - Deale - Coding Club - Learn how to create video games using the Scratch programming language

Sat 10/27 - Deale - Spooktacular STEM - Come dressed in your spookiest costume and explore simple pre-school Halloween based science challenges, for ages 3 - 5 entering kindergarten STEM

Sat 10/27 - Riviera Beach - STEM Lab - Hands on science stations and demonstrations

Mon 10/29 - Linthicum - Maker Mondays

Tues 10/30 - Severn - Haunted Gingerbread Houses - Create and assemble the spookiest haunted gingerbread house that you can imagine! Call to reserve your spot.

Tues 10/30 - Mountain Road - STEM night - w/Chesapeake High School Robotics Team and First Lego Club

Greenbelt Makerspace

Fri 10/26 - Fermentation Fans

Sat 10/27 - Jr Makers

Sun 10/28 - Animation Meetup

Mon 10/29 - Drop-In Geneaology

Wed 10/31 - Fiber Fans

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight Thu - 10/25 - Infosec night: Digital Forensics 101 w/Lab Examples

Sat 10/27 - Classic Video Game Day - f/classic console gaming systems released 20+ years ago

Tues 10/30 - 3D Printing Night - TinkerCAD tips and tricks, slicer settings, best/worst prints show and tell, basic 3D model repair and recent news in the 3D printing world

Annapolis Makerspace

Sun 10/28 - Kimchi Class - Learn what goes into making your own kimchi at home, history, ingredients to use and where to find them locally, recipes for kimchi in everyday meals.

And as always, Mondays are for woodworking and Thursdays are for electronics at Annapolis Makerspace.