Can you ID this bug?

So I held this friendly little creature today, he's an Australian walking stick. He has a prickly grip, likes raspberry leaves and is obviously not native to Idaho. I guess he resides inside during the cold winter months. He was part of the Master Gardener's exhibit at a science fair here in town. He really took a liking to Lauren and crawled all the way up to her neck! The science fair was sponsored by INL and had all kinds of science/safety tidbits. The girls really liked the "smoky bedroom." A trailer was set up to simulate a smoky room in your house with banana oil causing the actual smoke. Kids would crawl through on their hands and knees to escape out the bedroom window. L & C went through it twice. Pretty cool, who knew they could create smoke that didn't harm you. Personally, I liked seeing all the bugs, spiders, and butterflies. While I don't like to come across strange and scary bugs in real life they really fascinated me in their little bottles. I know, that's weird. Probably because I was able to actually identify some of the spiders in and around our house, plus figure out if they were beneficial or just plain scary. We all got a kick out of the safety exhibit. Kids had to find what was unsafe about the situation. The poor fly-fisherman with a sunburned head, scuba flippers, and an actual lure stuck in his eye-(it was one of the bug-eyed plastic mannequins.) Or the beer on the desk in the school classroom?! I wanted to laugh-but safety is no laughing matter! We all laughed about it at dinner, it was a fun Saturday, usually we just hang around, it was nice to get out together. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!