by Lyra Summers and John Paul Jenkins On October 20th, The RoboBees attended the 18th Annual Battle O’ Baltimore in Glenelg, Maryland. The Battle of Baltimore 2024 was the team’s last off-season event for the 2024 FRC season. This event also marked the final competition for their robot, Growler. Growler… Read More »2024 Battle O’ Baltimore
by Lyra Summers The Chesapeake Robotics Icebreaker (CRI) was our first 2024 off-season competition. On Saturday, September 28th, 2024, 28 teams from across Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania gathered at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia for a day of fun and excitement at the inaugural CRI. An off-season event is… Read More »2024 Chesapeake Robotics Icebreaker
growingSTEMS is happy to announce that open enrollment for our 2024-2025 Community Robotics Programs will be on June 29th 2024. We we are hosting an in-person open enrollment event with program demonstrations from 9AM to 3PM at The Hive, though attendance is not required to sign up. Our member application… Read More »2024-2025 Community Robotics Open Enrollment
growingSTEMS offers private tours through the month of June. growingSTEMS understands that everyone’s schedules are busy, especially during the summer months and it’s hard to attend a single day event. In an effort to help alleviate some schedule concerns, we are happy to offer private tours of The Hive throughout… Read More »The Hive – Private Tours
growingSTEMS is happy to announce their 2022-2023 Season Open Enrollment Session! Come learn about the growingSTEMS family of programs on June 4th from 9AM to 3PM. Information will be available about all levels of programs as well as our various summer camp offerings! *(Grades 3 through 6 must be accompanied… Read More »2022-2023 Open Enrollment
Over the weekend, The RoboBees competed in the 2022 FIRST Chesapeake District Championship.This event, which brought together 60 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams from acrossMaryland, DC, and Virginia, was one of the first full in-person FIRST robotics events in theChesapeake region since March 2020. The RoboBees, a community team based… Read More »2022 FIRST Chesapeake District Championship Win!
growingSTEMS is happy to announce that open enrollment for our 2021-2022 Community Robotics Programs will be on June 19th 2021. While we are hosting an in-person open enrollment event with program demonstrations (see flyer above), attendance is not required to sign up. Our member application will open at 0900 for… Read More »2021-2022 Community Robotics Open Enrollment
We are pleased to announce that The RoboBees were finalists in the Infinite Recharge At-Home Skills Competition! This competition consisted of five different challenges, which were inspired by last year’s competition. Each challenge was a test of either an autonomous program or driver controlled. Depending on the challenge, the robot… Read More »Infinite Recharge at Home Results
After much discussion and consultation with the ST. Mary’s County Health Department, growingSTEMS has made some decisions about the 2020-2021 FIRST Season for our FRC, FTC, FLL ,and FLL Jr. programs. Given the constantly changing nature of the Coronavirus Pandemic, we will continue to review these decisions as the situation… Read More »FIRST 2020-21 Season Update – Coronavirus Edition
On June 3rd from 6-8:30PM growingSTEMS will open their doors to the public for a an evening of STEM exploration. Students and Mentors will be on site to answer any questions you may have about or organization / any of our 4 community robotics programs. In addition, we will be… Read More »Open House / Enrollment