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Annual Dogtown St. Patrick's Day Parade
Come to St. Louis’ oldest Irish neighborhood to honor St. Patty during the Annual Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) St. Patrick's Day Parade. The Dogtown parade features colorful floats and many St. Louis Irish families marching under their family crests and banners.
12:30 p.m. The parade route begins at the corner of Tamm and Oakland Avenues in Dogtown and ends at Tamm and Manchester.
More information: stlhibernians.com.
47th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Downtown St. Louis
Celebrate all things Irish at one of the nation’s best St. Patrick’s Day parades. See marching bands, floats, huge cartoon character balloons, more than 5,000 marchers, clowns and more. Food and drink will be sold throughout the parade route.
The parade kicks off at noon at 18th and Market Streets in downtown St. Louis. The parade proceeds east to its conclusion at Broadway and Market Streets, and takes place rain or shine.
Beautiful Butterflies
Butterflies are beautiful creatures with many unique characteristics. Learn the life history of butterflies and identification techniques for common species found throughout Missouri. You'll also learn how to attract these pollinators to your own backyard. For ages 10 and up.
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.. Free. At Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center. Reservations are requested.
More information: mdc.mo.gov
rules, time constraints and limited resources, teams of 25 students built a robot to perform tasks against a field of competitors. Students from more than 40 high schools in Missouri and eight other states battled their bots at the 
