April 2025: STEM Day at Mae Jemison High School

The Jemison Science Department put together a school STEM Day this year, and we think it will become an annual event! They hosted it on the floor of the competition gym, with teachers and invited presenters having booths around the gym. 

The Space & Rocket Center, National Society of Black Engineers, and others had tables. Several teachers displayed their class content, such as health care, industrial manufacturing, chemistry, and other classes. Each grade at the school was able to spend about an hour going around to the tables to try their skill at rocket launching, stitching a wound, making lava lamps, etc.

Of course the CyberJagzz were there! However, swerve drive and basketball courts don't play well, so we set up on the upper concourse in front of the concessions stand.

We had students and faculty lining up to drive our 2025 Reefscape robot around. We turned the speed of the drive way down for safety, and disabled one of the mechanism. However that didn't stop students AND faculty from having fun making the robot spin around drive in the area. The team members enjoyed teaching their teachers something new!

Even Dr. Leverette, the school principal, had a turn to drive!

Everyone had a great time. Present and former team members stopped by to help run our table. We even had a few students fill out applications to join the team for next school year.

​We look forward to next year's STEM Day!