Maryland School for the Blind educator honored with STEM Visionary Award

Baltimore, MD – Gina Fugate, a Technology and Engineering teacher at The Maryland School for the Blind, has been named one of the 2019 Northeastern Maryland Technology Council’s (NMTC) Visionary Award recipients. Fugate, a certified teacher of the visually impaired (TVI), and Robotics team coach at MSB since 2015, received the Rising Star Award for “demonstrating, in a bold way, […]

Hundreds of BCPS students will program robotic cars at Parkville Middle School

In honor of World Math Day, the “STEM Squad” from Texas Instruments will help students learn to code at 11 schools across Baltimore County. Middle and high school students will simultaneously put their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to the test as they use math to program robotic cars to navigate through mazes. Students will use the some […]

Eastern Tech team advances to VEX Robotics World Championship

TOWSON, MD – Eleven teams representing Baltimore County Public Schools have qualified to participate in the VEX Robotics World Championship, sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Foundation, to be held April 19 – 25 in Louisville, Ky. The participating teams are Dulaney High School team 1727G; Eastern Technical High School teams 5839E and 5839A; Hereford High School team 929U; Hereford Middle […]