STEM Organizations

SkillsUSA is a nonprofit association that helps career and technical education students follow their passions to their ultimate careers. As a nationwide partnership of education and industry, SkillsUSA works to ensure America has a skilled workforce. It helps every student excel. The nationwide career and technical education student organization serves more than 360,000 high school, college and postsecondary students and instructors each year in trade, technical and skilled service occupation instructional programs.


Mathnasium

At Mathnasium Learning Centerswe make math make sense! Whether your child started out far behind or already ahead in math, Mathnasium will help them leap ahead because we know that any child can be successful in math—it’s a matter of teaching it in a way that makes sense to them.

Our experienced math tutors utilize our proprietary teaching materials and techniques, The Mathnasium Method™, to deliver a customized learning plan designed to address each student’s needs. Our instructional approach goes beyond traditional math tutoring to develop understanding and build a love for math.

If math is a problem, Mathnasium can solve it. Students will grow more excited and confident about math—and their grades will reflect that.

For students who already excel in math, the sky’s the limit. They will work to expand their math skills and, with math learning made exciting, can see all the doors that being great at math can open.


Maryland Destination Imagination

Destination Imagination (DI) is a global educational nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators, leaders and creative problem solvers. Learn More


Maryland Round Table for Business

The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT) is a coalition of leading employers that have made a long-term commitment to support education and improve student achievement in Maryland. Learn More


MathCounts

MATHCOUNTS provides fun and challenging math programs for U.S. middle school students to increase their academic and professional opportunities. Learn More


Robobees

The RoboBees, FIRST team 836, is a robotics team located in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor and engineer Dean Kamen in 1989. A few years later, The RoboBees were created in 2001 by Mr. David Buddenbohn, a teacher at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center.

Since then we have grown into an incredibly diverse and unique student body who comes from seven different schools as well as home schooled students. Being located near PAX River Naval Air Station, engineering permeates our local culture. This is shown in full by the fact that our mentor base is composed of engineers, scientists, mathematicians who work for local defense contractors or PAX itself. Learn More


STEM-ING

The mission of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics— Inspiring the Next Generation (STEM-ING) is to heighten the awareness of STEM and STEM related careers in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls through fun, practical hands-on approaches.

OUR OBJECTIVES:

– Instill the vision that STEM and STEM related careers are enjoyable and achievable.
– Introduce girls to applications in STEM careers.
– Encourage girls to pursue higher level math and science.
– Expose girls to positive STEM mentors and role models to show that they can succeed in STEM related fields.
– Connect students from various schools with similar goals and expand the student network.

APPROACH:

STEM-ING will host an annual 1-day STEM event to execute the mission. The primary goals will be achieved through fun, educational, hands-on workshops led mainly by women working in the STEM related fields. Additional elements such as keynote and guest speakers consisting of prominent female STEM leaders from the community and STEM facility tours may be used in conjunction with the workshops. Our goal is to select workshops that represents as many STEM areas as possible to maximize students exposure to various STEM fields and empower them to be creative and innovative in the future. Learn More