Local Boy Scouts Remain Active & Engaged Over Spring Break Through Boy Scouts of America Theodore Roosevelt Council S.T.E.M. Center Camp

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Theodore Roosevelt Council’s S.T.E.M. Center Camp in Massapequa recently kept local scouts active and engaged over spring break.

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Massapequa, NY - May 3, 2016 - One of the only Boy Scout Councils in the country to host a S.T.E.M. Center, The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Theodore Roosevelt Council recently held a S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Camp over school spring break, ushering in a new era of scouting at its recently opened S.T.E.M. Center in Massapequa that kept scouts’ minds productive, engaged and active while school was out on spring recess. 

“On the national level, the S.T.E.M. program has become a priority of the Boy Scouts,” says Boy Scouts of America Theodore Roosevelt Council S.T.E.M. Center & Workshop Director Dakota Oher. “As a result, at the local Council level, we’ve fully embraced the program and are already seeing exceptional results and advancement opportunities, community relations and career development.”

“During spring break it is important for youth to keep their minds active and engaged,” adds Theodore Roosevelt Council Executive Jay Garee. “Our S.T.E.M. Camp programs and activities offer scouts a fun and unique way to interact with one another while learning important fundamentals about science, technology, engineering and math in everyday applications during spring recess.”

As part of the camp’s S.T.E.M. related programs and activities, the scouts built their own interactive robots before bringing them to life, giving their robots the ability to pick up and launch balls, trail paths and follow instructions. Scouts also conducted various experiments and learned about science through numerous displays that not only included robotics, but also chemistry, aviation and flying machines as well as catapult constructions and theme park engineering.

The Theodore Roosevelt Council’s S.T.E.M. Camp is a follow up to the grand opening of the Council’s S.T.E.M. Center that was celebrated earlier this year with hundreds of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and others along with Congressman Peter King.

About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.®” The Scouting organization is composed of 2.6 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and more than a million volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. For more information on the Boy Scouts of America, please visit www.scouting.org.

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Photo 2923: Theodore Roosevelt Council Boy Scouts construct and program hand-built robots at the Council’s S.T.E.M. Center in Massapequa during Theodore Roosevelt Council’s recent S.T.E.M. Center Camp held during spring break.

Photo 3085: Theodore Roosevelt Council Boy Scouts learn engineering by constructing bridges made out of candy during Theodore Roosevelt Council’s recent S.T.E.M. Center Camp held during spring break.

Photo 2827: Theodore Roosevelt Council Cub Scout S.T.E.M. Programming Coordinator Gino Scartozzi helps a scout prepare an experiment in velocity and distance using a foam bow and arrow set during the Council’s recent S.T.E.M. Center Camp held during spring break.