This summer, students built LEGO NXT robots to traverse a mountainous obstacle course and a 4-robot scoring challenge. Each challenge had a degree of difficulty, where students would have to work together to design a robot that could navigate the course and score a ball in a goal. Students worked… Read More »Racin’ Rovers, a race to the finish!
Over the summer, growingSTEMS held several events in partnership with the St. Mary’s County Public Library. During one event, titled “Rockin Out”, student explore the world of rocks and minerals. Volunteers from growingSTEMS and The RoboBees explained the rock cycle and student participated in a hands on show and tell… Read More »Kids From Around St. Mary’s Rockin Out at Local Libraries
SoMdNews.com: growingSTEMS reaches out to budding scientists, engineers www.somdnews.com – Group of engineers at Pax River aims to reach students while they’re young… We would like to thank the Enterprise for publishing this amazing article! Special thanks to Jesse Yeatman who took the time to get to know growingSTEMS!
This past weekend, growingSTEMS went on the road to bring STEM to Teen Institute (TI), a Leadership and Drug Prevention camp. For the second year in a row we were invited to TI in Kena, Wv to inspire the campers with STEM. TI is a leadership and drug prevention camp… Read More »On The Road Again
Tuesday (May 6th) our team had the opportunity to attend the Superintendent’s Robotics Showcase at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center. Here our FRC members joined the VEX Robotics Competition, the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), the STEM 5 and STEM 7 Navy sponsored “Math in Real Life… Read More »Superintendent’s Robotics Showcase
On March 28, 2013 we arrived at the DC Regional for a weekend of hard work, competition, and fun. Tackling this year’s challenge of shooting Frisbees and climbing a 10 foot pyramid was no easy task but we went in strong when it came to climbing. While on the other… Read More »The Washington D.C. Regional
The RoboBees are proud to release their 2013 robot “Frizz Bee!”. With no further delay, we present our robot for your consideration.
With help from growingSTEMS The RoboBees created two children’s books over the past two years. As of today, two copies of our first children’s book (Sting The RoboBee – Shaping Up) are in circulation at the St. Marys County Public Library with more to come as soon as they are… Read More »Children’s Book
Tonight’s Bag and Tag party went extremely well. I would like to thank everyone who showed up and made the night an extreme success. I hope the families of all our students enjoyed seeing their child’s/children’s hard work. We would like to congratulate all of our team members on a… Read More »Bag and Tag Party!
One of our students who participated in the UCAS-D X-47B tour last Friday submitted an article to our local newspaper “The Enterprise”. It was selected to be published! We are very proud of our students are work.