STEM 2022
Best Practices for STEM Outreach DoD Workshop
The "Best Practices in STEM Outreach" DoD Workshop was held at USNA on November 29, 2022. Thirty-four participants attended from various commands, including representatives from DoD STEM, Space Command, Ellsworth Air Force Base Force Support ...
MESA Interactive STEM Day
The Maryland MESA Interactive STEM Day was held over the course of two days in November 2022, through a partnership between the U.S. Naval Academy STEM Center and Maryland Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) at Johns Hopkins ...
SeaPerch Educator Training
Twenty-five educators from schools systems across Maryland and the District of Columbia attended a day-long, hands-on build for SeaPerch held at the U.S. Naval Academy and made possible through support from the Office of Naval Research. SeaPerch ...
Family STEM Night
On Friday, November 4, 2022, the U.S. Naval Academy STEM Center hosted its annual Faculty and Staff Family STEM Night. More than 80 adults and 100 children attended the event hosted in Luce Hall. Twenty-three midshipmen managed six learning ...
Wildwood Academy STEM Day
On October 28, the USNA STEM Center held a STEM Day at Wildwood Catholic Academy located in North Wildwood, NJ with a full day of hands-on STEM activities for the middle and high school students. USNA STEM Center faculty and staff and six ...
Middle School Girls Only STEM Day
Girls Only STEM Day workshops held at the U.S. Naval Academy are designed to introduce middle school girls to a wide range of opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math fields. On Saturday, October 15, over 200 girls attended the ...
STEM Educator Training
The USNA STEM Center hosted the Fall STEM Educator Training Workshop on September 24, 2022 with sessions including easy to implement, project-based activities in science, engineering and math topic areas with real-world relevance. The ...
STEM on Deck
The USNA STEM Center and the Office of Admissions presented "STEM on Deck" at the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday Aug, 27. Almost 200 high school students traveled to USNA from across 32 states to participate in this day-long event. Students ...
NNOA STEM Day
The National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) held its annual symposium in Annapolis this year celebrating 50 years of history. The week kicked off on July 25, with a STEM day bringing close to one hundred students onto the Yard for a ...
SET Sail Summer STEM Educator Training
SET Sail STEM Educator Training is a week-long residential professional development program for middle and high school teachers, offered at the U.S. Naval Academy each summer. Workshops cover a range of science and engineering topics delving into ...
Summer STEM
In June, the USNA STEM Center and the Office of Admissions welcomed over 800 high school students to the 2022 Summer STEM Program. These students were selected based on a rigorous application process and invited to spend a week here at ...
Summer Heroes Youth Program
In June 2022, twenty midshipmen mentored over 3,000 middle school students in the local region as part of Summer Heroes Youth Program (SHYP). Midshipmen engaged students with hands-on project in a range of STEM topic areas, conducting 150 ...
STEM Day at Fort McHenry
On June 21, Naval Academy Midshipmen and Park Rangers brought science and history to life with a STEM Day held at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, MD. The program was attended by 260 high school students as ...
SeaPerch Showcase
Over 300 fifth graders from 21 Anne Arundel County Public Schools, chaperoned by nearly 100 teachers, parents, and AACPS personnel, had the opportunity to showcase their SeaPerch underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) at USNA in early ...
1/C Midshipmen Awards
Midshipmen in the graduating Class of 2022 are recognized for their ongoing dedication to STEM outreach at the Naval Academy. Midshipmen, Gustel Bamanabio, Ricky J. Castellon-Davis, McKenzie Eshleman, Shane Fagan, Jonathan Huang, Gabriella ...
International Science and Engineering Fair
Five USNA faculty members acted as the Navy Judging team at this year’s in-person portion of the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF 2022) held in Atlanta, Georgia from 7 – 13 May 2022. Mark Murray, Andrew Smith, ...
Biofuels Educator Webinar
On April 26, Dr. Sarah Durkin, USNA STEM Center, presented a virtual educator workshop in collaboration with Dr. Mary Stapleton, Towson Univ Center for STEM Excellence, in the topic of biofuels. The workshop was designed to prepare ...
National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Professor Mark Murray participated as a judge and moderator at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) a Tri-Service-sponsored event (Departments of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force). It took place April 20-23 in ...
Navy League Sea-Air-Space STEM Expo
The Navy League held in-person their Washington, DC region Sea-Air-Space Exposition STEM Expo 2022 on April 3. It is the largest maritime exposition in the U.S. that seeks to unite the U.S. defense industry and military decision-makers for ...
Maryland Regional SeaPerch Challenge
Over 30 middle and high school-aged teams attended the in-person Maryland Regional SeaPerch Competition at USNA. Teams brought their SeaPerch underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROV), which they designed, built, and modified, ...
STEM Outreach at Meade Middle
On March 18, 2022, the USNA STEM Center presented a STEM outreach event for about thirty middle school girls at Meade Middle School in connection with Women's History Month. STEM Center faculty and staff, Joe McGettigan, Sarah ...
Best Practices for STEM Outreach DoD Workshop
Best Practices in STEM Outreach DoD Workshop was held at USNA on March 14, 2022. Thirty-seven participants attended from various commands, including representatives from Navy Recruiting Command's Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Richmond, ...
Middle School Girls Only STEM Day
Sponsored by DoD STEM, the Office of Naval Research and Naval Academy Foundation, Girls Only STEM Day workshops held at the U.S. Naval Academy are designed to introduce middle school girls to a wide range of opportunities in science, technology, ...
High School Girls Space Day & Astronaut Convocation
On March 3, the USNA STEM Center hosted a High School Girls Space Day held at the U.S. Naval Academy, sponsored by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, the Office of Naval Research, and the Naval Academy Foundation. As part of the event, students ...
Spring STEM Educator Training
The USNA STEM Center hosted the Spring Stem Educator Training Workshop on February 12, 2022 with sessions including easy to implement, project-based activities in science, engineering and math topic areas with real-world relevance. The ...
Army-Navy High School STEM Day
On February 5, 2022, the USNA STEM Center hosted the first annual Army-Navy High School student STEM Day. Thirty-two high school students from Maryland and Virginia attended this competitive engineering event, which was executed exclusively by ...
FIRST Robotics Competition
On January 23, 2022, nine Midshipmen supported a local FIRST® Robotics First Tech Challenge (FTC) event by serving as Judges via a virtual format. Thirty-five teams in the DC Region went head-to-head in a day-long competition at ...
High School Girls Biotech Day
High School Girls Biotech Day was held at the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday January 22, 2022, to engage students in biotechnology topics and explore how scientists and engineers use biotechnology for discovery and innovation. ...