Moving forward: plan for the obstacles, like every engineer should!
Update from Tom Bickford (01/18/2022), Director
As we all know, our lives have been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic that has been sweeping across the globe. Schools and many businesses are being opening, closing, running in person or running virtually.
Maine STEM Film Challenge and the Maine STEM Film Festival:
Tom Bickford,
Founder of Maine Robotics (2004)
Director of STEM Outreach at the University of Southern Maine
As we all know, our lives have been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic that has been sweeping across the globe. Schools and many businesses are being opening, closing, running in person or running virtually.
Maine STEM Film Challenge and the Maine STEM Film Festival:
- The Maine STEM Film Challenge is designed to be a "not-in-person" event. With teams working locally to create a stand-alone video that will be uploaded for review and judging.
- The Maine STEM Film Festival is planned for a combination of in-person and online participation. If COVID makes the participation locally impossible, then the plan is to run the entire Film Festival online. We think it will be suitable to run it either way.
- Keep an eye on the Robot Track Meet Association website for up to date Maine meet information. We are planning on holding in-person Robot Track Meets around Maine this coming school year.
- Our expectation is that 2022 Summer Camps will be back to normal, but time will tell.
- In 2020 we ran all of our programs ONLINE and they were very successful. We had 156 campers attend one of our different programs.
- In 2021 we ran all of our programs in-person and they too were very successful. We had 360 campers.
Tom Bickford,
Founder of Maine Robotics (2004)
Director of STEM Outreach at the University of Southern Maine
Maine Robotics is done in collaboration with the University of Southern Maine