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WaterWays Science Festival

The City of Cape Coral invites the public to its Fourth Annual Award-Winning WaterWays Science Festival on Saturday, February 6, 2027 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cultural Park, 528 Cultural Park Boulevard.

This free, family-friendly event will feature educational activities, volunteer opportunities, and games that highlight the importance of our waterways. Attendees will learn about local, regional, and global environmental concerns. 

The event also features:

  • Live animals
  • Mangrove and native tree and plant giveaways
  • Volunteers’ opportunities
  • Arts and crafts
  • Mermaid
  • Water laboratory hands-on experiments
  • Boating education and safety
  • Food trucks
  • Neurodivergent-friendly activities
  • And more

The science festival aims to encourage community action on environmental issues that affect us all through education, games, and art.

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A man kneels beside a tube of oyster shells and holds up a string of oysters to show two young girls at the Waterways Festival.
Children use nets and grabber tools to pull plastic trash out of a pool of murky water at an interactive pollution activity at the Waterways Festival.
A smiling young girl holds a baby alligator with its snout taped shut at a Waterways Festival wildlife booth.
Two smiling staff members in green shirts run a prize wheel with topics like sea turtles, oysters and seagrass for children at a Waterways Festival booth.
An older man laughs with a young child at a table of small plant pots while volunteers hand out native plants at the Waterways Festival.
A smiling woman in an inflatable blue shark costume poses at the Waterways Festival in front of the Marine Industries Association of Southwest Florida booth.
A smiling woman in a blue shirt shows young children a rack of water sample tubes at a hands-on water quality table at the Waterways Festival.
A CROW staff member shows a boy an owl wing and talon at a wildlife education table at the Waterways Festival.
Children in yellow safety vests dig with toy tools in a sand-filled pool at the Waterways Festival.