We are proud to announce that one of our Alumni, Amanda Lucas, was featured in an article written by FIRST itself. We are extremely proud of Amanda and all of our Alumni who show us that programs like ours and many others have a huge impact on these students lives.… Read More »More than Robots
The RoboBees are proud to announce that they will be holding their open enrollment meeting on September 30th at 6 PM in the Dohrmann Room at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center. Students from 8th grade to 12th grade are welcome to attend. Students and Mentors from… Read More »Open Enrollment | 2013-2014 School Year
Students were able to learn the basics of flight through a series of activities. The group started the morning with balloons whizzing around the room. Students paired off and used string, straws, and balloons to create thrust experiments. Once they learned how to get objects in the air, they had… Read More »Science of Flight – The basics behind flying objects
On July 26th, the last of the 2013 St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s River Concert Series was held. The non-profit growingSTEMS™ was present throughout the 6 events. This was their third year running to help inspire the children and young adults with S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). The kids… Read More »River Concert Series – A growingSTEMS Activity Booth
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