1. Manassas Park City Schools

2.  Manassas Park City Schools is committed to promoting a well-rounded education for all students with an emphasis in the provisions of the foundation of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). By supporting comprehensive STEM and robotics programs, we will implement and offer educational opportunities for our students through the generous support of local business and industry, as well as the Manassas Park Education Foundation, which broaden their educational experience and meet future work force needs.

3. Primary Level Secondary Level

4.  Afterschool club of up to 12 students  Use problem solving and inventing skills to study STEM education

5.  Two teachers per grade level lead a STEM block in their hallway throughout the year.  Designed to reach all students  Teaches through inquiry and critical thinking skills

6.  Piloted with GT students  Designed to teach energy and resource conservation to students  Involves critical thinking and engineering skills

7.  Challenges 8 th Grade students to invent and problem solve using household objects ◦ Optics Device ◦ Recyclable Rube- Goldberg Machine

8.  Teach STEM to students in grades 3-8  Focuses on Inquiry while aligning with Middle School Science Standards  Partnered with: ◦ National Science Foundation ◦ George Mason University ◦ Prince William County Police

9. Manassas Park Robotics

10.  The mission of the robotics program in Manassas Park City Schools is to create opportunities, both within and outside the school division, for students to gain 21st century skills, with an emphasis on “coopertition,” while learning to design, program and build robots throughout their education.

11.  Design and build robots using current technology  Learn fundamental engineering skills, critical thinking, problem solving and social skills.  Design and build programs to control the robot autonomously and user-controlled  Takes video game skills and turns it into real life

12.  Consortium consists of Manassas Park, Manassas City and Prince William County Schools  All Elementary, Middle, and High Schools have at least one robotics program Partnered with

13.  Competition Club ◦ 2 teams of 5-7 fourth and fifth grade students ◦ Compete in November  Programming Club ◦ Targets 3 rd and 4 th grade students ◦ Teaches basic programming for NXT robots

14. FLL Fun Day – May 11 th 2013  Fun Day May 11 th at Osbourn Park High School  79 teams totaling over 700 elementary students

15.  Middle School ◦ Three teams of 4-6 members ◦ Compete throughout NOVA area  High School ◦ First year for the program ◦ Had one team of 5 high school students ◦ Expanding to two teams next year

16. Map of REC/VEX robotics

17. Design Award and Mentor of the Year

18.  Students in our robotics clubs participate in SySTEMic Solutions STEM camps  Starting in Summer 2013 – VEX Robotics Camp with Manassas City ◦ Students learn to engineer, build and program robots prior to start of school year

19. 2012-2013  Create underwater ROV  Entirely Remote controlled  MPHS had one competition team this year though several members participated without competeing

20. Tournaments  2011-2012 ◦ Hosted Regional and National Tournament at Manassas Park Community Center  2012-2013 ◦ Hosted Regional Tournament

21. 2013-2014  Starting at Cougar and Manassas Park Elementary Schools  Using FLL fields and situations  Expecting 2 teams of students in 2 nd and 3 rd grade

22. So what do the students think?