Summer STEM Academy Aims to Prepare Valley Students for College
Above: Middle school students in the robotics academy writing code that allows their robot to autonomously navigate a maze. (Photo Credit: UC Merced)
By Jason Alvarez | UC Merced University News
The leap from high school to college is an enormous intellectual hurdle. But UC Merced engineering Professor Yanbao Ma wants to ease the transition by better preparing Central Valley students for the rigors of university-level coursework. That’s why he teamed up with CalTech to launch the Bobcat Summer STEM Academy.
“Our goal for the summer program is to stimulate the interest of middle-and high-school students in STEM,” Ma said.
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