Chamber News

Third Annual Kids Soda Coloring Contest Now Open

The Sebring Soda Festival, in partnership with the Children’s Museum of the Highlands, is proud to announce the Third Annual Sebring Soda Festival Kids Coloring Contest.  Kids ages 0-10 can pick up their soda-themed coloring sheets that the Children’s Museum of the Highlands (located at 219 N. Ridgewood Drive, Sebring) or at the Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce or download a copy at tinyurl.com/2020coloringcontest.

Help Make Florida’s Fizziest Festival A Success

The 3^rd Annual Sebring Soda Festival is seeking volunteers to assist with the event April 3-5.  A wide variety of individual volunteer opportunities exist including ticket and information booth staffing, managing the soda activations, merchandise sales, delivering ice and sodas to the tasting booths, set up and clean up.

Volunteer to Host a Tasting Tent at the Sebring Soda Festival

The award-winning Sebring Soda Festival is offering a special money-saving tasting package - the Super Soda Saver Tasting Package.  For a limited time, soda lovers can get four (4) $10 tasting cards for the price of three (3) for only $30.  Each tasting card allows for 18 craft soda tastings at the 3rd Annual Sebring Soda Festival scheduled for April 3-5 in downtown Sebring.  Tasting cards can be used Saturday and/or Sunday during the Festival.

SEBRING, Fla. (Aug. 26, 2019) – The Sebring Soda Festival recently won three top state awards from the Florida Festivals & Events Association (FFEA).  The awards were announced on Aug. 22 at the 25^th Annual Florida Festivals & Events Association conference in Naples, FL. 

FFEA celebrates the accomplishments of its members annually through the SUNsational Awards. For two decades FFEA has recognized the many talents of Florida event and festival planners and distributed more than 1,800 awards to deserving event industry organizations and individuals.

Craft beer festivals are old hat. Wine and food festivals, they’re everywhere.

So Sebring, a small town along the lovely Lake Wales Ridge in Central Florida, is staking a claim for something new — Florida’s first (and only) craft soda festival, the Sebring Soda Festival, April 5-6, 2019.

The festival, which is in its second year, takes place in the historic downtown of Sebring. It will give visitors a chance to sample and buy more than 200 sodas.

The Sebring Soda Festival is thrilled to announce details for the much-anticipated Pet Costume Contest, which will be held during the Soda Festival on Saturday, April 6 at Noon. 

There is no entry fee to participate.  Registration for the contest will be held from 11:15-11:45 AM on the west side of the Main Stage, which will be located in Circle Park.  Judges will be representatives from the Highlands County Pageant Organization.

Costume Contest Categories include : 

Avery’s Beverages is pleased to announce a custom Sebring soda, made just for the Sebring Soda Festival, will be available for tasting and purchase exclusively at the Sebring Soda Festival on April 6. 

The soda, named Sebring Gator Grog, features orange, kiwi and blue raspberry flavors and is made by Avery’s Beverages, one of the oldest bottling companies in New England.  

Want to get some free signage and visibility at a high-traffic event for your organization while having fun and helping the local community? The Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce is seeking organizations (non-profits, clubs, churches, etc.) to host Tasting Tables at the Sebring Soda Festival on Saturday, April 6 from 10AM-5PM.

SEBRING, Fla. (March 15, 2019) – Get ready for a soda-licious showdown! The sodas are getting iced down for the Second Annual Sebring Soda Festival on April 5-6, but the competition is heating up. The fizziest festival in all of Florida will kick off in historic downtown Sebring on Friday, April 5 with a Rockin' 50s Block Party from 5-8 PM.