Community Programs
growingSTEMS holds community programs throughout southern Maryland and the surrounding areas. Check out a listing of all our programs!
River Concert Series - A growingSTEMS™ Activity Booth
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 really seemed to enjoy our
Racin’ Rovers, a race to the finish!
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 in teams of 3-5 to
Kids From Around St. Mary's Rockin Out at Local Libraries
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 of various rock samples. Groups were
We're in the news!
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!
On The Road Again
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 where campers learn about the