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USNA SAME Camp

Sponsored by the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), ONR, and the Naval Academy Foundation, this week-long engineering and construction camp was attended by 52 high school students from across the United States. USNA STEM Center designed, implemented, and hosted the hands-on, live, virtual camp on behalf of SAME, led by USNA faculty members, SAME members, and Office of Admissions TAD Ensigns.

Summer STEM Program

Implemented by the USNA STEM Center and the Office of Admissions, a virtual, live and in real time program was provided to nearly 800 high school students throughout the US and overseas. Supply kits were shipped to each student to enable full participation in the week-long event in which students conducted undergraduate-level experiments. 72 midshipmen assisted USNA faculty in delivering content as well as project-based instruction, through sponsorship of ONR and the Naval Academy Foundation.

Summer Heroes Youth Program

In June, SHYP was presented as a virtual, interactive program, with 16 midshipmen mentors engaging 2000 middle school students in the Mid-Atlantic region in hands-on STEM activities matched to their curriculum standards, through sponsorship from Exelon Corp, Naval Academy Foundation, and ONR. The program included a livestream webinar from Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, MD for middle school students in Baltimore City Public Schools, in collaboration with National Park Service.

SET Sail STEM Educator Training

SET Sail Summer provided two sessions of week-long professional development training in July to 56 educators from DoDEA and US schools around the nation. The workshop trains secondary educators to incorporate project-based learning and real world applications while delivering STEM content. This annual program is sponsored by DoDEA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), DoD STEM, the Naval Academy Foundation, and Dr. Ernst Volgenau.

Sea-Air-Space STEM Expo

The USNA STEM Center participated in the Navy League’s 2021 Sea-Air-Space STEM Expo held in Washington, DC. This maritime exposition by the US defense industry and military provided education, discussion and exhibitions to the 2300 in attendance. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, USNA STEM Center faculty and staff led visitors in hands-on activities to explore science and engineering topics including robotics.

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

www.usna.edu/stem

usnastem@usna.edu

STEM CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Summer 2021

Navy Week: Buffalo

USNA STEM midshipmen and TAD Ensigns, in conjunction with the Navy Office of Community Outreach and sponsored by ONR, supported Buffalo Navy Week with a virtual STEM session at the Buffalo Museum of Science. This event provided hands-on engineering design projects and a Q&A discussion regarding STEM majors and Navy careers. MIDN Teresa Collins also supported Buffalo Navy Week with a video on Archimedes’ Principle.

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Volgenau Chair for Education and Outreach

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

UPCOMING EVENTS: FALL 2021

SWIFT

In May, the Midshipmen team from the USNA Oceanography Department’s Severe Weather In-Field Training (SWIFT) took a break from storm-chasing to visit Wagoner High in the Tulsa, OK region for STEM outreach. The in-person classroom visit included project-based, weather-related activities and career discussions.

• High School Educators “Back to The Lab”

Workshop, Sept 18

• SET Sail Fall STEM Educator Training, Sept 25

• Middle School CTE Educator Workshop, Oct 2

• Middle School Girls Virtual STEM Day, Oct 16

• DoDSTEM Air Force Virtual Educator

Workshop, Oct 20

• Wildwood Academy STEM Trip, Oct 28 • STEM Family Night, Nov 5

• Maryland MESA, Nov 16 & 18

• Chicago STEM Initiative Tech Fair, Nov 12

• SeaPerch Educator Training, Nov 20

• NICE Conference, Dec 6 • STEM Underway, various, TBD

Community Outreach

TAD Ensigns Tom Dias, Kailah O’Brien and JP Anyansi provided in person and virtual outreach to youth at Camp Open Arms in Baltimore, MD, Back To STEM Night at Kramer Middle School in Washington, DC, and Washington State Boys and Girls Clubs.

Boeing

Executives from Boeing Autonomous Systems attended a hands-on STEM session on principles of flight and engineering design led by USNA Faculty in the USNA Aero Lab. Boeing is a Naval Academy Foundation sponsor which supports USNA STEM outreach programs.

Summer Internships

Through funding from the Maryland Space Grant Consortium and a DoD STEM grant for Biotech Literacy, the STEM Center had four interns who augmented, created, and implemented hands-on STEM curriculum. Brooke Bailey and McCauley Brown (Univ. of Maryland Terrapin Teachers) focused on Biotechnology topics; and Taliyah Jones (Univ. of Maryland Eastern Shore) and David Paton (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) focused on Space Science topics. The interns worked on-site at USNA or remotely for 10 weeks under guidance of USNA STEM Center faculty Dr. Sarah Durkin and Christine Maceo. They facilitated activities at outreach and educator events and their researched documents have been incorporated into STEM Center curriculum.

McCauley Brown Taliyah Jones David Paton Brooke Bailey

* Schedule subject to change