2025 Upcoming Events

Celebrate Earth Day April 22

Read all about it on our blog at https://www.absteam.org/blog and check out out our Eco Activities.

2025 Bioblitz

April 18 through May 5

The 2025 BioBlitz, Nature of Acton and Boxborough, is a biodiversity challenge. A BioBlitz is a race against time to create a snapshot of the variety of life found in a specific location. Wildlife experts and citizen scientists,  find and identify as many species of plants, animals and fungi as possible in the area within a set amount of time. Find out more.

DiscoverSTEM 2025

Monday, November 10. Save the date!

We are looking for lead organizers, sponsors, and adult & student volunteers!  Email actonpip@gmail.com with subject DiscoverSTEM.  Find out about past DiscoverSTEM events.

Local Nature Guides

Buy a copy of our updated Acton Nature Guide with local plants, birds, invasive plants and a new map of Acton Conservation lands. Acton Nature Guides are great gifts and perfect for self-guided nature walks!

Acton Nature Guides are available for $10 from these local business partners:

• Kitchen Outfitters in Acton Woods Plaza  https://www.kitchen-outfitters.com

• Silver Unicorn Bookstore in West Acton   https://www.silverunicornbooks.com

• Pedal Power Bike & Ski on Rt 2A, Acton https://www.pedpow.com

2025 Community Skate

Thanks to all who attended 2025 Annual AB Community Skate FUNdraiser (26th annual) and AB STEAM meet-up on Sunday, March 2nd. Find out more about the annual skate.

2025 Family Math Game Night

The February 27th AB STEAM Family Math Game Night was a huge success! It was wonderful to see so many people coming together in this event for the first time since 2019. Thanks especially to Boxborough's Sargent Memorial Library for hosting, volunteer leads Ruchi and Anjana for organizing, Brian and Melissa Dempsey for helping to gather student volunteers, all the student volunteers who came out to help, and the Bee's Knees British Imports for donating some refreshments. For those of you who attended, so glad you came out, we enjoyed your enthusiastic participation and hope to see you at another event soon!