A Robust STEM Workforce Strengthens Our Space Community
America’s aerospace workforce is aging, and Maryland’s workforce is no exception. We must develop the next generation of scientists and engineers, and at a rapid pace, to sustain U.S. leadership in space, advance scientific exploration, provide accurate weather forecasting, and support our warfighter. MSBR’s goal is to encourage STEM education leadership in Maryland for a thriving aerospace workforce future. MSBR is proud to have made broad STEM investments across the entire Maryland region, helping expand the reach of STEM programs, including a focus on underserved populations.
STEM Grant Presentation Template and Application Form
The MSBR 2025 STEM grant application process has begun! Below, please see important dates, a link to the required STEM Grant Presentation template (PowerPoint), and the online grant application form. Your completed PowerPoint presentation must be submitted with the form.
Application Due Date: October 23, 2025
Presentation Date: November 13, 2025
Location: Lanham, MD
Note: To save the PowerPoint file to your computer, right-click the link to get the ‘download’ or ‘save as’ option. If you are having an issue with downloading the PowerPoint file, please send an email to tracey.mdspace.stem@gmail.com and it can be sent to you.
MSBR provided funding to 21 applicant organizations in 2023 and 37 organizations in 2024.
2024 Grant Recipients
101 Robomations
101 Robomations from Ellicott City, MD, fosters a welcoming, low-stress environment where students of all backgrounds learn CAD, programming and engineering while building a strong future together.
Atholton Technology Boosters
Atholton Technology Boosters is a robotics team at Atholton High School in Columbia, MD, with the mission to use teamwork to help the STEM community.
Centennial Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is a national competition with goals to compete nationally in Science Olympiad tournaments, cultivate science exploration, and create lasting bonds and work ethic.
Baltimore City Engineering Alliance
BCEA unites Baltimore City public schools to strengthen STEM education by improving achievement, boosting enrollments, supporting teacher development, and preparing a skilled workforce.
Bovine Intervention
Bovine Intervention is a Robotics Team in Frederick, MD, with student members from many high schools in Frederick County and beyond. Most of the students come from Walkersville, Linganore, Oakdale, Catoctin and Brunswick High Schools while some from private and at home.
Centennial Robotics
The mission of Centennial Robots is to grow a diverse community of inquiring thinkers both within and outside of teams Cryptic and Epsilon. Centennial Robotics will provide any student, regardless of background, the opportunities to pursue STEM and acquire valuable experiences for their prospective futures.
FeNiX.exe
FeNiX.exe is a passionate group of Rockville, MD, students dedicated to the world of robotics and STEM education. They design, build, and program cutting-edge robots to compete at the highest level. They are committed to mentoring young students, providing robotics training, and advocating for equitable access.
Cryptohawks
Established during the 2021 season, CryptoHawks 8726 is a FIRST Robotics Competition Team based out of Urbana High, Maryland. They strive to be a driving force in the growing twenty-first century initiatives to promote STEM and develop the skills of young students who will lead STEM in the future.
LIFE Engineering
LIFE Engineering is a Bowie, MD-based team with the mission to inspire young people to be STEM leaders with hands-on mentoring, activities, skills, and experience to empower leadership with values and purpose.They have a passion for teaching to create and innovate with confidence using STEM skills and real-world applications.
Alien Raiders
Alien Raiders is a VEX V5 robotics team in Greenbelt MD, at Eleanor Roosevelt high school. Their mission is to advance STEM through competitive robotics within their high school and feeder schools by bringing awareness of the team through educational outreach, annual tournaments, and participation in school activities.
Gear Rotation
Gear Rotation is an all-girls FTC team based in Howard County, MD, made up of students from 8th-11th grade. Their mission is to motivate and inspire while strengthening engineering skills, connecting with the STEM community, and striving for continuous improvement.
Jagbots
Jagbots, a high school robotics team in Germantown, MD, promotes STEM by fostering a safe, inclusive environment where students thrive. Open to all regardless of financial status, the team inspires peers through robotics and annual participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
LOAD Robotics
LOAD Robotics is an FTC team and an FIRST Lego League team based in Chesapeake City, MD, with the mission to educate and motivate young people in STEM, with a particular focus on reaching rural students.
FIRE
Future Innovative Rising Engineers & Entrepreneurs (FIRE) is a non-profit volunteer-based organization of students who participate in building, launching, programming and operating robots, and racing remote control cars. Their mission is to engage students in science and engineering.
Air Tigers
Air Tigers of DuVal High School, mainly made up of minorities, is mentored by Mentors Advancing STEAM Education, a local nonprofit organization that recruits local engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to volunteer their time for STEAM education in and beyond the classroom.
Infinite Voltage
Infinite Voltage, based in the Bel Air, Maryland area composed of high school students and mentors that work together to create a functioning robot while learning team building skills. Through this experience, students can broaden their understanding of technology and science in an encouraging work environment.
Oakland Mills HS Science Olympiad
The Oakland Mills team has been growing for the past few years, reaching more of the student population. Their students train for events in a variety of scientific disciplines, from biology to astronomy. The team has been growing since its founding and has impacted many students who have gone on to choose STEM careers.
Mechanical Paradox
Mechanical Paradox, a Baltimore-based robotics team of high school students, designs, builds, and programs robots to compete in alliance-based challenges. They serve as ambassadors by hosting outreach programs that spark community interest in STEAM.
Oxon Hill High School Electric Vehicle Team
The Oxon Hill Electric Vehicle Club is a student led electric vehicle club that builds and races electric go kart in an endurance race locally and internationally. Their mission is to provide students an opportunity to apply their engineering skills, to build network in the STEM field, and to collaborate to solve engineering problems.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame program creates immersive, hands-on STEM learning that improves children’s attitudes, skills, and problem-solving while aligning with national standards. It also strengthens teachers’ STEM knowledge, confidence, and inquiry-based teaching through professional development and transferable classroom practices.
Pigeon Bots
Pigeon Bots is a First Tech Challenge team based in Rockville Maryland. Formed in the summer of 2020, our members are all ages from 13 to 16. Our mission is to promote STEM throughout the local and wider community.
Orca Robotics
This robotics team aims to inspire interest in STEM and encourage future careers in the field. Striving to reach national-level FTC competition, they engage their community through fundraisers, scrimmages, demonstrations, science fairs, and other outreach events.
QuHacks 2025
QuHacks is a day-long hackathon by students, for students in 2025. It is a day of creation, innovation, and fun with fellow middle and high schoolers interested in coding. They join seasoned coding veterans to first-time programmers to discover their ability to create change by developing technology to solve real-world problems, attend workshops, and meet some new friends.
Patriots Technology Training Center
A building has been donated to the Patriots, which will be transitioned into the Patriots Technology Gymnasium. The mission is to expand programs raising awareness among students by offering a variety of learning opportunities that encourage students to pursue education and careers.
River Hill High School Science Olympiad
River Hill Science Olympiad is a Division C Science Olympiad team based in Clarksville, MD. They strive to bring students who love science together. Under the guidance of adult mentors and experienced peers, these high schoolers spend countless hours preparing and studying for their events at local invitationals and regional and state competitions.
Power Hawks Robotics
Power Hawks Robotics is an FRC team that provides real world STEM experience to not only its high school student members but also to many other K-12 students. They are building and fielding a robot for the 2025 season, and assembling, operating, and maintaining an underwater ROV in partnership with a nonprofit that supports the Chesapeake Watershed.
Science & Math Innovators
Science & Math Innovators, Inc. engages K-9 students through maSTErMinds camps, blending physics and engineering concepts with hands-on exploration. Programs foster critical thinking, belonging, and empowerment, particularly for girls and African-Americans, inspiring long-term interest and confidence in STEM.
Rex 1727
Team Rex 1727 from Dulaney High School in Timonium, MD aims to expand STEM education and opportunity across Baltimore County, piloting both the FRC and VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) programs. Founded in 2005, they look to make robotics and engineering more accessible to all students, especially those who are underserved.
Squirrels Family of Teams
The Squirrels Family of Teams is a community-based organization that maintains small team size and allows flexible scheduling to support student athletes. The Squirrels built multiple competition robots and had a great experience competing in the FTC and FRC.
Robotiators
With the guidance of supportive mentors, the Robotiators team implements an engineering design and build process that instills self-confidence and encourages teamwork, commitment, and perseverance for students. At competitions, they promote healthy competitiveness, but value the reward of overcoming failure and the excitement of success more than winning.
The Falcons
The Falcons of Poolesville, MD, strives to create an inclusive learning community where students can apply their knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) to real-world problems. Team goals include removing barriers to STEM interest for underrepresented groups and readying students for college and the workforce.
SilverSat Limited
SilverSat is a community-based non-profit for students in grades 6-12 in Silver Spring, MD with a mission of building and launching a CubeSat that takes pictures of Earth from space and posts on Twitter, allowing for instantaneous sharing of photos and all mission data. SilverSat will be a tech demonstration of a CubeSat using onboard secure IP communications protocols to publish data directly to a social media platform.
Get Outside and Learn Engineering Kits
The Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland offers GOAL Engineering Kits to spark STEM interest among underrepresented and first-generation students. Through hands-on design challenges, the program engages middle and high schoolers while empowering undergraduates to collaborate with educators, address social challenges, and inspire future pathways.
Irrational Engineers
The Irrational Engineers, a high school robotics team, was created to instill and develop a love of STEAM amongst our members and to share our passion for STEAM activities with students and families in Prince George’s County, MD.
The Blair Robot Project
The mission of The Blair Robot Project is to expose members to complex problems to promote personal and intellectual growth by building a well-designed robot. Composed of students and alumni from Montgomery Blair High School and the surrounding area, the team has been continually expanding and attracting new members since its establishment in 1999.
Baltimore Bots
The Baltimore Bolts are a FIRST Robotics Competition Team composed of Baltimore City high school students. Students work side-by-side with STEM professionals to design, program, and build a robot that performs an annual challenge as well as provide exposure to STEM careers.