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Students Excel in the Sciences through the STEM FProgram at The Catholic High School of Baltimore
OR MORE THAN A DECADE, students at The Catholic STEM students also enjoy a Summer Enrichment Camp High School of Baltimore have thrived in the sciences each year, with different topics tailored to each grade level. thanks to the school’s STEM (Science, Technology, Incoming freshmen and rising seniors build skills in a
robotics camp, sophomores participate in a rocketry camp,
STEM school in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Catholic High provides specialized instruction through courses that include conceptual physics, robotics and a NASA engineering curriculum.
Students also build on classroom knowledge through the STEM mentorship program. STEM professionals have lunch with students at school, and the students later have an opportunity to shadow them in their workplaces.
while rising juniors learn about the science side of criminal justice through a forensics camp. Catholic High is also the only private Catholic high school for young women with a Vex Robotics team.
According to Dr. Barbara Nazelrod, president of the school, “The STEM program has strengthened our entire academic landscape as now more than half of our students focus on the sciences.”
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