Storm The Citadel! pairs students with business and
engineering mentors from the community. Co-hosted and
co-founded by Google and The Citadel, the event reinforces
the importance of science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) education. The event is designed to
encourage students from kindergarten to high school to
get acquainted with engineering. Generous support from
Google is helping the event grow and move on to a national
level of awareness. Students and educators use their best
engineering skills to design medieval-style launching
devices for the annual competition. The teams do not hurl
giant rocks but they do launch small rubber balls hundreds
of feet! The event attracts more than 3,000 people to
campus each winter. Gifts to the School of Education and
The Citadel’s STEM Center fund these and other innovative
initiatives.
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Gifts from individual donors and industries such as SCE&G,
Google, and Boeing allow the STEM Center to offer innovative and
exciting programs that help students experience science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) through activities that are hands-on
and collaborative. The goal of these programs is to help students gain
or increase their interest in STEM and help them to realize the many
exciting career opportunities that exist for those with an educational
background in STEM.
– Glenda La Rue, STEM Center Director
The Citadel School of Education/STEM
A collaborative effort of The Citadel’s Schools of Education,
Engineering, and Science & Mathematics, the STEM
Center delivers outreach initiatives to increase pre-K
through college-level student interest, participation, and
opportunities in the STEM disciplines. The STEM Center
also supports The Citadel’s efforts to produce graduates
who are poised to become successful leaders in the STEM
fields. To achieve its mission, the STEM Center employs
community outreach programs such as the Storm the
Citadel! contest.