Montgomery Community Media

Students from across the country including students from Montgomery County Public Schools are participating in National Engineers Week to learn about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). With safety gloves on, lab coats snapped tight and goggles to protect their eyes, students from Albert Einstein High School are learning about the sewer system […]

A Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) student’s science experiment will be tested on the International Space Center this summer as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). According to a news release, Parkland Middle School student Alana McCarthy Light designed an experiment to determine how probiotics will react in a microgravity environment. The findings […]

You are never too young to start thinking about college and career options. Montgomery College professors, students and staff recently hosted 180 kindergarten students from James Daly and Fox Chapel elementary schools in Germantown for a day of college and career exploration. MCTV’s Carolina Galeano reports, below: Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television […]

The MdBioLab made a stop at the Upcounty Regional Services Center in Germantown on Monday. “We are here today to actually introduce job seekers here in Montgomery County to opportunities and careers in biotechnology, life sciences and health sciences,” said Brian Gaines, CEO, MdBio Foundation. According to Gaines, Montgomery County is the epicenter for biotechnology […]

Eight Montgomery County students will participate in a global robotics competition this spring. The students of “Wizards.exe,” a  rookie robotics team based in Rockville, will soon head to St. Louis for the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship. Over 20,000 middle and high school aged students from 39 countries will participate in the robotics competition. The […]

Governor Larry Hogan announced today his commitment to launch up to four P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) schools in Maryland to better prepare students for college and entry into the job market. Hogan was joined by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; Stanley Litow, president of the IBM International Foundation; Dr. Gregory Thornton, CEO […]

Montgomery County fourth grade students took a recent trip to Johns Hopkins University to bake, learn and give back to the community. Take a look: Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

Montgomery College recently dedicated its Bioscience Education Center on its Germantown campus. MCTV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

Benjamin Banneker Middle School hosted Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Discovery Communications, and others to celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education on May 1. Earlier in the day, more than 100 Banneker students toured the White House and shared their views on the importance of STEM educational programs. Learn more in this video. Visit […]

More than 500 Montgomery County middle school students and 300 parents will be venturing out to The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) campus on Saturday, Dec. 1 to take part in USG’s action-packed “Journeys in Engineering, Technology and Science (JETS)” day. The 4th annual free event, which will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., […]