MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2025, the 32nd Clean Water Celebration!
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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2025, the 32nd Clean Water Celebration! 〰️
Welcome to Sun Foundation’s
32nd Clean Water Celebration!
April 28, 2025 at the Peoria Civic Center
Guide & Information
The following information is very important, please read everything carefully!
BUSES, PASSENGER VANS!
STUDENT DROP OFF AND PICK UP
ARENA ENTRANCE 2
Please have your bus driver pull into the drive off Jefferson for Drop Off and Pick Up at Arena Entrance 2. Students will be picked up at these same locations.
You should have a student leader GREETER to facilitate drop off.
ENTER through the bank of doors and head straight down the glassed walkway to the theater.
You will find CHECK IN STATIONS. right outside the theater lobby. We will have guides stationed to help direct you.
Student leader LUNCH WRANGLERS will collect your lunch bins here, placing them on carts and transporting them to LUNCH storage at Exhibit Hall C windows.
PARKING
Bus or Passenger Van Parking
The Civic Center asks that buses drop students and teachers/chaperones off at Jefferson and proceed to and park in the Peoria Civic Center Fulton Parking Lot. Please tell the driver that the attendee should simply click them in.
Our thanks go to: the American Water Charitable Foundation, Central Region Groundwater Committee, Peoria County Sustainability and Resource Conservation Program, and the Tazewell County Solid Waste Program for funding this cost.
Car Parking
If you are not arriving by bus, please note that the Civic Center graciously is providing free parking for individual vehicles in the Marquee Parking Lot.
LUNCHES
Bring or Buy and Recycle/Compost – Our Goal is Zero Waste!
You may have your students bring their lunches.
BRING
If bringing sack lunches, please collect lunches, box or bin them, and clearly LABEL the boxes or bins with the SCHOOL name and TEACHER name. The boxes or bins of lunches will be collected upon checking in, transported to and stored in the C side office area just outside of Exhibit Hall C. Just give your SCHOOL name and TEACHER name at the window when you need them.
Lunch Tables
LUNCH TABLES are located in EXHIBIT Hall C and just outside EXHIBIT Hall C in the TERRAZZO LOBBY.
There are some stationary tables on the patio outdoors near the SONAR TIDE Sculpture.
Patio has a few stationary tables.
BUY - concessions are open in hall c - CASHLESS payments only
All purchases at concessions are cashless. Last years option of purchasing a voucher is no longer available.
There are working water fountains by the elevator in the Skylight Lobby, by the Business Lounge not far from Hall C, near restrooms in all Exhibit Halls, and near restrooms by Room 203 (see Sessions Map) on the second level.
THINK ZERO WASTE - Make informed choices before you come- Reduce your impact!
We will have Waste Sorting Stations near each lunch area!
REUSE, COMPOST, RECYCLE, LANDFILL
Reuse - Keep your own Bags and containers and Take them back with you!
Reduce your food waste - Leftover food? look for the Green Basin and add your food waste. It will be transported by Better EArth Logistics to be composted at Better Earth compost.
Recycle - Look for the Blue Basin.
Leftover liquids? No worries! simply dump any leftover liquids from your bottles in the buckets then recycle your empty bottle or can.
You may also recycle paper and cardboard Waste-Ask for Directions for these!
Hopefully you have very little left to trash in the Black Basin. All of this waste will go to the Landfill.
Please click button below to see one of the waste sorting stations from the 2024 event.
Registered Groups
CHECK -IN Station OUTSIDE THEATER
ARRIVING JUST IN TIME?
GROUPS, If you are attending the keynote session first, 9:30 or 11:00am, please proceed directly to the THEATER and begin seating your students as soon as you arrive, FILLING SEATS FROM FRONT TO BACK.
GROUPS, If you are arriving in time for your first session, please go directly to the session and report to the CHECK IN STATION or INFORMATION/REGISTRATION after your session ends.
Student LUNCH WRANGLERS will be at the CHECK IN STATION near the theater lobby entrances to collect any lunch containers and take them for storage.
ARRIVING WITH PLENTY OF TIME TO SPARE?
GROUPS, If you are not attending a keynote first and you are arriving for exhibits or sessions please check in at the CHECK IN STATION near the theater lobby entrances.
ARRIVING LATE?
GROUPS, If circumstances occur that have you arriving late, please feel free to text 309.231.7451 and we can let your session know. Upon arrival, please take advantage of the exhibits in Hall C until your schedule is on track.
Families & Individuals
CHECK-IN Station OUTSIDE THEATER
Here you can pick up a WALK IN SCHEDULE with the SESSIONS that have seating available.
Please note that both Keynote Sessions 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM have ample seating.
EXHIBITS are open to all 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
VIPS
VIP CHECK-IN OUTSIDE THEATER
9:30 am
EXHIBITS
Located in Hall C and open to all, no registration needed
Interactive and Cross Curricular
Meet environmental scientists, engineers, artists, youth leaders, business professionals, conservationists and discover their career paths that led them here. Engage! Explore!
BE MINDFUL! students Bring your own REusable bag for your swag!
SCHEDULES
GROUPS
In order to accommodate everyone attending, we ask that you please you to follow your group’s schedule.
Sessions are booked to fill the space available and some are at capacity! Please have supervision for each group.
Please call/text Karen Zuckerman at 309.231.7451 if you would like to request any changes or if you have questions about your group schedule. We will try to accommodate you to the best of our ability.
FAMILy, Individual
Pick up a WALK IN SCHEDULE with the SESSIONS that have seating available. Please be respectful of groups. A room schedule is posted outside each session.
Remember that both Keynote Sessions 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM have ample seating.
EXHIBITS are open to all 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
SENSORY FRIENDLY
There is a Sensory Friendly CALM ROOM in Room 136
on the main floor across from Exhibit Hall B
SESSIONS
Sessions are in meeting rooms on both the first and second floors
Prepare for your sessions! If you are interested in a pdf file of either the maps or the sets of questions simply email cleanwater@sunfoundation.org
STREAMS
STREAMS are an hour long and include a set of three separate 20 minute activities focusing on
Aquatic Species, Watershed Modeling & Sustainability and Conservation
Please begin at the session assigned your group and rotate through in succession.
Yellow Streams and Blue Streams are LOCATED in Exhibit Hall B.
Entrance and exit should be from the Skylight Lobby.
LOST AND FOUND STUDENTS AND BELONGINGS
located in the Clean Water office area outside exhibit Hall C.
If students, parents, or teachers become separated from their group or arrive at a different time, they should report to the Clean Water Information/Registration Desk outside exhibit hall C. If you should lose someone from your group, look for them there.
All lost and found materials can be claimed there. All unclaimed materials after the event closes will be turned into Peoria Civic Center Security.