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MATHCOUNTS alumnus, mathematician, and former NFL player John Urschel shares about his unique experiences in the classroom and on the field in a 30-minute Q & A with the MATHCOUNTS community.
John Urschel went to MIT because he LOVED Math! He didn't give up his dreams of playing professional football or his passion for math... he pursued & mastered them both!
6th – 8th Grade
MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that provides engaging math programs to middle school students to build confidence, improve attitudes towards math & problem solving and fosters achievement. To secure America's global competitiveness, MATHCOUNTS inspires excellence, confidence and curiosity through fun and challenging math programs.
**MathCounts holds a National Competition every May where the National Champion is determined during the Countdown Round. This individual receives a $20,000 Donald G. Weinert College Scholarship.
The Math Video Challenge is a national program that challenges middle school (6th-8th Grade) students to develop their math, communication and technology skills in a collaborative video project.
Coaches who register a team in this program receive what we call the Math Video Challenge Playbook, which includes detailed program information and tips on how to create a video. The Playbook also includes the 250 MATHCOUNTS problems that students use to create their videos, which are organized by math concept so educators can use the Math Video Challenge as a class project.
Learn More About the MathCounts Video Challenge Here
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Continue America’s leadership in innovation and problem-solving at the highest levels.
Solution:
Students will participate in these monthly sessions working with hands-on breakout experiments & simulate cutting-edge projects undertaken by expert engineers who volunteer with Engineering Tomorrow.
Results: Between 2017-2021, there was an 18% increase in HS seniors intending to pursue engineering degrees.
Goal: Engineering Tomorrow's goal is to influence and inspire females and minority students to pursue engineering
studies.
Middle school students will be able to jump start their future in STEM by choosing from coding classes ranging from Intro to HTML, JavaScript and CSS to Python, App Development and Game Design.
Facilitated by Microsoft professionals Blacks at Microsoft (BAM), coding classes will teach computer programming skills through interactive and exciting projects especially for kids who have great imaginations, like figuring out how things work or simply love technology. Students will have so much fun creating video games, animated stories and bringing their imaginations to life not realizing all the cool skills he or she is learning along the way: basic coding and programming, problem solving, logic, physics and more!
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Stay tuned for more exciting 2022 Virtual Programming!
4th-8th Grade
FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) is a program that introduces children to science & technology in a fun, energized atmosphere of sportsmanship.
The objective is to:
Students will research a given topic within a team, as well as plan, program and test an autonomous robot to solve a mission. FLL Teams have the opportunity to experience all steps of a real product development process: solving a problem under time pressure with insufficient resources and unknown competitors. FLL is a small micro-cosmos of real business life in all of its aspects.
6th – 8th Grade
The VEX IQ Challenge provides elementary school students with exciting, open-ended robotics and research project challenges that enhance their STEM skills through hands-on, student-centered learning.
Students build their robot & then use a graphical software to program the robot. There are three parts to the contests: Robot Skills, which is a single robot trying to score as many points as possible; the Teamwork Challenge, where two robots attempt to work together to complete the same task; and and the STEM Research Project and Presentation where teams research a given topic, create a prototype and present to a group of judges.
6th – 8th Grade
MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that provides engaging math programs to middle school students to build confidence, improve attitudes towards math & problem solving and fosters achievement.
To secure America's global competitiveness, MATHCOUNTS inspires excellence, confidence and curiosity through fun and challenging math programs.
**MathCounts holds a National Competition every May where the National Champion is determined during the Countdown Round. This individual receives a $20,000 Donald G. Weinert College Scholarship.
6th – 8th Grade
Future City Competition is a national competition that focuses on improving student's math, engineering, and science skills. An example of problem based learning with computer simulation, the program asks 6th, 7th & 8th grade students from around the nation to team with volunteer engineer mentors to create — first on computer and then in three-dimensional models — their visions of the city of tomorrow.
The Future City Competition provides a platform for students to increase their:
6th-8th Grade
Individual or Group
*Up to 3 per group
The Explorer Technical Innovations Competition is an annual national science fair program where students have the opportunity to compete in & explore science in all forms through projects and presentations
Program Goals:
DMV NSBE, Jr. scholars will be mentored & taught college level research skills by Howard University graduate students!
Grades 6-8
Students will be able to jump start their future in STEM by choosing from coding classes ranging from Intro to HTML, JavaScript and CSS to Python, App Development and Game Design.
Coding classes will teach computer programming skills through interactive and exciting projects especially for kids who have great imaginations, like figuring out how things work or simply love technology.
Students will have so much fun creating video games, animated stories and bringing their imaginations to life not realizing all the cool skills he or she is learning along the way: basic coding and programming, problem solving, logic, physics and more!
Thanks to the generosity & partnership with Mary McLeod Bethune Public Charter School, our in-person activities have resumed, and our future engineers, scientists and STEM innovators will be hosted at 1404 Jackson Stret, NE. With the exception of the college tours; Fall Regional Conference & NSBE's 49th Annual Convention, ALL of our in-person STEM programming will occur at Mary McLeod Bethune PCS! This partnership will allow us to provide additional STEM enrichment to scholars in our DC Community as well as allow Howard University's NSBE Collegiate Chapter, Karsh STEM Scholars, Howard STEM Faculty & STEM majors and other partner University student leadership organizations to directly give back to the community & mentor the Next Gen of Black Engineers & STEM professionals!
The new 2022-23 Program Schedule is being finalized & will be emailed to members once finalized!
Many children in the DC Metro Area love STEM but may not want to be an engineer (or even know what engineers do). For this reason, DMV NSBE, Jr. will offer a variety of STEM programming & other enrichment classes to our members. To ensure that our members can not only participate in any of our chapter's programming AND outside extra-curricular activities; weekly team practices, enrichment classes, workshops and monthly chapter meetings will occur on the weekends:
Chapter Meetings: 3rd Sunday of Each Month (5pm-6:30pm)
Our student-led chapter meetings are hands-on intended for BOTH the student members AND their parents.
Scheduling our programs on Saturday's & Sunday's gives students, parents & coaches the flexibility to have an enriching NSBE, Jr. experience while also giving them time to spend with family & nurture their non-STEM interests.
Schedules for team practices & enrichment classes will be determined by the dedicated volunteer coaches & mentors serving our children. From our experiences, the most successful NSBE, Jr. chapters also have a high percentage of parent-coaches who have children in the chapter. We hope you consider serving as a coach for one of your child's math or technical teams. Besides exploring engineering together & having fun guiding your child (& their teammates) in exciting hands-on STEM adventures - YOU, your co-coach and the parents on your child's team get to decide the practice meeting schedule! Ex: Will our VEX IQ team practice on Saturday's from 1pm-2:30pm or Sunday's 2pm-3:30pm. Does this time work well for everyone on our team? Does it conflict with my son's football & karate schedule? Will my daughter be able to do Future City, MathCounts, a coding class and also gymnastics with her travelling club program?
Consider Being a Coach! Coach & Mentor Training coming soon!
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