(Long Island, NY) The Boy Scouts of America Theodore Roosevelt Council will open its own STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Center with a grand opening celebration. Scouts of all ages and rankings as well as public school students are invited to experience the center for the first time. Attendees can interact with numerous displays which include SCUBA, robotics, a planetarium, pendulums, fulcrums and bottle rockets. Congressman Peter King will attend the ribbon cutting ceremony.
On Saturday, February 6, 2016, the opening ceremony/ Ribbon cutting willbe at 10:30 a.m. STEM activities will then be from 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the Theodore Roosevelt Council STEM Center at 544 Broadway, Massapequa, NY 11758
Numerous scouts of all ages will be touring and demonstrating the STEM Center’s facilities and equipment. Activities will include games, crafts, interactive displays and exhibits relating to a variety of STEM fields, including chemistry, electricity, geology, medicine, aerospace/rocket science and SCUBA.
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.
