Science and math got very hands-on on March 10, 2025, when the Poly STEM Outreach Club, a new, student-created outreach club at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, visited Govans Elementary School, a Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) neighborhood conversion charter school. The entire 2nd Grade enjoyed an hour-and-a-half of fun, engaging labs and experiments, presented in stations by Poly high school students.
The activities, planned and led entirely by the Poly STEM Outreach Club, focused on the skills the 2nd Grade is working on in science and math. Stations included:
- Mathopoly, a board game based on Monopoly where students solve math problems
- Strawberry DNA extraction
- Binary Encoding
- Conductivity
- Virtual drone simulator and piloting real drones and robots, led by Poly Robotics and AFJROTC members.
This event marked the second visit to a BCP school by the Poly club, one of the club’s intended “25 schools by 2025 campaign” to bring free STEM activities to Baltimore City Public Schools. In February, the club spent an afternoon at Wolfe Street Academy, the alma mater of club co-founder and president, Andrew Gao.
“The whole event was thoroughly prepared,” says Sara Kelley, STEM teacher at Govans. “Our students were engaged in activities the entire time and were able to answer questions about what they were learning at each station.” Each student received a STEM activity book to take home, and every class asked for the Poly students to return with more activities.
Thank you, Poly STEM Outreach Club. Read more about the Club and BCP. Interested in scheduling a visit? Contact the Club.
