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
Overview growingSTEMS, in partnership with NAWCAD, is hosting an exciting summer camp focusing on the VEX IQ kits. In this camp, rising high school and middle school students will work virtually to design and program a robot, culminating in an in-person maze challenge. This camp will take place over a… Read More »2021 VEX IQ Summer Camp
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
growingSTEMS is proud to announce that we will be offering FIRST Lego League Jr. teams this coming season! Students in grades K through 3rd are now able to participate in a STEM robotics challenge. You can find out more information about FLL Jr. here. Please consider stopping by to talk… Read More »FIRST Lego League Jr.!
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
growingSTEMS with support from The RoboBees are proud to offer two summer camp opportunities for rising 4th through 8th grade students. During the week of August 5th-9th these two camps will focus on Lego Robotics (using the popular EV3 platform) and Scratch Programming! Discovery EV3 Camp Camp participants will have… Read More »growingSTEMS Offers Summer Camps!
This week the team received the news that we are qualified to participate in District Championships. We ranked as the 9th overall team out of 129 total teams in the Chesapeake District earning 113 district points. We are very proud of how our robot has performed so far this competition… Read More »Qualified for District Champs
Between March 23th and 24th, FRC Team 836 The RoboBees competed in their second competition of the year. The FIRST Chesapeake District Event, held at Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, MD, was the second showing of Team 836’s robot, Athena. Facing off against a total of 39 teams… Read More »2019 Oxon Hill
Between March 15th and 17th, FRC Team 836 The RoboBees competed in their first competition of the year. The FIRST Chesapeake District Event, held at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, MD, was the premiere of Team 836’s robot, Athena. Facing off against a total of 38 teams from across the… Read More »2019 Owings Mills