Tonight, Pepco, Discovery Education and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW) kickoff the Pepco STEM Club at The ARC Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus, located at 1901 Mississippi Ave., S.E. The Pepco STEM Club exposes and prepares BGCGW 5- 8 grade students for career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math.
Tonight’s kickoff will focus on challenging some 100 or more middle school students to create mechanisms that transfer energy from one object to another in the tradition of inventor and engineer Rube Goldberg.
Discovery Education provides the Pepco STEM Club's digital curriculum which includes hands-on and virtual labs, engineering challenges, digital investigations, videos and career connections.
For more information, visit http://www.pepcostemclub.com/ and www.discoveryeducation.com.
