In this club we will learn how to use the 3d modeling program called Onshape and by the start of second semester 3d print a model created by the student.
1) A friendly club focusing on 3d modeling and learning 3d modeling
2) All meetings are carried out during school hours
3) No real commitment in terms of time or money
Sponsor: david_w_james@mcpsmd.org
AMP aims to spread knowledge regarding the medical field's various professions. Each month, students will focus on a different medical career to expose individuals to different career path options and to help students decide whether or not this is the professional field for them. Students are given the freedom to selectively choose which meetings they prefer to attend based on personal preference. The club will host hands-on activities like competitions and arts-and-crafts to help increase students' understanding of different medical careers.
Hands on activities to complement the monthly focus.
Visits and ZOOM lectures with medical professionals from a variety of fields.
Rotating focus on different professions to give students a full range of perspectives.
Sponsor: jason_e_colchao@mcpsmd.org
The Machine Learning Club aims to meld practical knowledge on how to build and deploy models with a strong intuition for a machine learning architecture's components. Additionally, members will be able to get into the mathematical background of machine learning and experience different AI functionalities. We use publicly verified sources and materials to form the basis of our lessons. At the start of the year, we'll discuss the foundations of artificial intelligence, explain different ML models, and explore simple applications. Afterward, we'll host a competition for students to demonstrate what they have learned and work on programming in an open environment. Finally, members will get a deep dive into the workings of commercial AI systems and be provided with ways they can innovate with AI. If you have ever wanted to find out how popular programs like ChatGPT work, instantly create custom images with Stable Diffusion, as well as implement APIs, libraries, and other ML components into future projects, Machine Learning Club is for you!
The Machine Learning Club offers:
- Guided projects for members to learn about AI and ML
- A competition for members to exercise their skills
- Lessons regarding commercial AI programs (ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion)
Sponsor: Stuart_O_Albaugh@mcpsmd.org
A club that provides lessons about astronomy or astronomy-related subjects.
Key features:
1. Lower commitment than signing up for the astronomy class
2. Gives students an opportunity to see if they are interested in astronomy
3. Build a community of students who like it!
Sponsor: ryan_p_frewin@mcpsmd.org
We hold educational presentations about astrophysics, invite guest speakers, host demonstrations, and work on projects.
Join if...
1. Have an interest in physics, quantum/particle physics
2. Have an interest in astronomy
3. Wanting to learn cool stuff and get to know people
Sponsor: bessy_r_albaugh@mcpsmd.org
Interested in planes and all things aviation? Then this is the right club for you! In this club, we'll talk about all things aviation, watch videos, take fun quizzes, and more!
Here are some key features about Aviation Club:
1. Daily videos of aviation
2. Kahoots/Fun Quizzes
3. Discussion time/questions/learning about aviation
Sponsor: Shawn_Ackley@mcpsmd.org
Biology Club hosts a variety of events aimed at promoting interest for biology in the RM community, such as student lectures and guest speakers. Members learn biology that extends beyond what is taught in the average classroom and thrive in opportunities such as the USA Biology Olympiad and the National Biology Competition. Come check it out!
Meetings generally consist of an interactive discussion on a topic of biology that is not explored in depth in the regular curriculum.
Club members have won accolades such as USABO semifinalist titles, University of Toronto's International Biology Scholar titles, and more.
Most members enter the club with little experience in biology and come to love the subject over their years at RM.
Sponsor: bessy_r_albaugh@mcpsmd.org
We will be playing games that relate to anatomy and biology. Prizes (like candy or fun little things) will be provided for the winners of the games. We will also provide sweet treats, like cookies, for those who attend.
1. Games and prizes
2. Biology and anatomy topics
3. Conversations about new scientific discoveries
Sponsor: allison_g_admas@mcpsmd.org
Distinguished biomedicine and health professors (mental health, developmental biology, pharmacy, cancer biology, etc) from around the world are invited to give students a seminar (~10-20 minutes) once a month. The seminars aim to educate students on how to care about their health and current actions they can take to prevent diseases in the future. This provides students who are interested in pursuing health research with the opportunity to communicate with professors from colleges and institutions. After the meetings, students can ask questions and discuss about health-related scientific questions to foster interest in biomedicine and health related studies. Additional fun activities are hosted at each meeting. No prior experience required.
Key features:
1. Guest speakers with distinguished recognitions from around the world
2. Wellness activities
3. Health issue discussions
Sponsor: charles_j_goetziii@mcpsmd.org
Chemistry Club provides many opportunities for RM students interested in chemistry to enhance their understanding of a broad range of chemistry concepts. Members will engage in interactive presentations, listen to guest speakers, and will also have the chance to perform fun, hands-on chemistry experiments once MCPS goes back to in-school learning. Chemistry Club members will also be able to participate in competitions such as the Maryland Chemathon and United States National Chemistry Olympiad.
Most experiments that members perform at chemistry club are not offered in chemistry courses at RM!
Our club is open to any RM student interested in chemistry - regardless of whether or not they have already taken a chemistry course in high school.
Chemistry Club participates in the Maryland Chemathon every year, and has regularly ranked top 3 against other high school teams in Maryland.
Sponsor: Stuart_O_Albaugh@mcpsmd.org / rmhs.chemistry@gmail.com
Doctors Without Degrees is a club to help students learn about the medical field and what it has to offer. This club is for anyone who isn't sure about what they want to do in the future or wants to have a career in medicine. We will invite medical professionals to every meeting to speak with us over Zoom. Meetings will be once a month and we will always have food.
- Learn about different careers in the medical field and discover a potential career for the future
- Interact with medical professionals, converse with different types of doctors, and ask questions
- Connect with others who also have a passion for learning about medicine, eat snacks, and have fun :)
Sponsor: bessy_r_albaugh@mcpsmd.org
Engineering club will teach valuable engineering skills through hands on experiences. We will tackle design challenges using the engineering design process to fabricate prototypes and eventually functional products. Serving the community is important to us and we will work on design projects that will help those around us. Join us to learn by doing, to experience what an engineer does, and to help the community.
We cover a wide range of topics surrounding engineering. We focus on applying engineering by building projects with a purpose. We have previously partnered with UMD and plan to partner with them in the future.
1) We welcome members of all skills level, if you don't know much about engineering, we will teach you.
2) We will really be building things. We will use materials such as paper, wood, 3D printed plastic, cardboard, glue and other needed materials.
3) We will brainstorm problems that already exist in the community that we can work to solve. We already have a few ideas but welcome more.
Sponsor: Charles_J_GoetzIII@mcpsmd.org
Envirothon is a competition where teams of 5 compete in five environmental science events, from identifying native wildlife to speaking on pressing environmental issues! Beyond wildlife, we also study forest health, soils, water management, food scarcity, and more! Meetings will mostly consist of learning and discussing these topics to prepare for the competitions in the Spring.
Sponsor: lissa_a_vincent@mcpsmd.org
Future Faces of Medicine is a student-led club dedicated to service, leadership, and medical opportunities. Members can earn SSL hours by leading and participating in health awareness projects at RM and in the community. The club also provides access to medical competitions, summer internships, and scholarship opportunities to help students strengthen their future in healthcare. Activities include service projects, interactive games, contests, and collaborative initiatives designed to spread awareness about important health issues. Our goal is to empower students to make a positive impact while gaining meaningful experiences connected to medicine.
Consistent, high-energy meetings with structured, student-led presentations and themed workshops
Hands-on learning through interactive activities, clinical demos, and career-focused discussions
A strong emphasis on leadership and service, including verified SSL hour opportunities through community medical outreach and education
HOSA affiliation (Health Occupations Students of America) to give members access to academic competitions, conferences, and medical leadership training
This will create a more immersive, active, and student-driven experience that encourages real exploration of medicine and supports long-term interest in healthcare careers.
Sponsor: Megan_Shaw@mcpsmd.org
This club teaches girls from local communities how to code. We build apps, write programs, and in general, learn various languages.
Learning java
Community service
Building apps
Sponsor: kimberly_l_gustin@mcpsmd.org / girlswhocode.rm@gmail.com
Hispanics in STEM is a club that focuses on the importance of building a community of familiar faces in the STEM field through empowering and advocating for more Hispanic representation. Our goal is to create an inclusive environment where students can support one another and collaborate while sharing their interests.
Hispanic in STEM Club offers:
- Mentorship programs: Connecting with Hispanic professionals working in STEM fields to provide guidance and support
- Career Development Opportunities: Providing resources for college applications, internships, and scholarships
- Community Outreach initiatives: Engaging with local communities by organizing educational programs about technology and innovation. "
Sponsor: rebecca_m_garrigues@mcpsmd.org
Kids are Scientists Too is a student-led non-profit organization dedicated to getting elementary school kids interested in science. Our members visit local elementary schools to lead weekly after school science clubs. These clubs cover topics such as gravity, evolution, vision, and include hands-on experiments. Other activities include writing science lesson plans, writing for the organization newsletter, and helping out at the annual science fair.
SSL hours
Fun experiments
Having fun teaching elementary schoolers
Sponsor: Charles_J_GoetzIII@mcpsmd.org
KID CODERS: Kids Teaching Kids. This is a club for lovers of new and exciting computer programming languages like Python. Members will participate in our online zoom classes offered free to elementary, middle, or high schoolers. Come check us out at www.kidcoders365.com and consider sponsoring your own language to offer to our students. Help others while having fun.
Free virtual Python coding classes at the elementary, middle and high school level
Explore programming languages of interest to the group
Work together to find programming solutions to problems discussed by the group and as a competitive team at competitions.
Sponsor: karl_f_kovacs@mcpsmd.org
Med Mystery Solved strives to provide information about lesser-known medical diseases, raising awareness and heightening members’ knowledge about all things medicine. Additionally, we will focus on bolstering careers and opportunities by informing club members of medical-related opportunities nearby and providing information sessions with experts in the field.
- Provides opportunities for students to find internships/medical-related activities
- “Disease of the month”: Students learn about a different disease each month.
- Interviews: medical professionals or medical students are interviewed online and provide information about the medical field to students
Sponsor: bessy_r_albaugh@mcpsmd.org
The Science National Honor Society is dedicated to providing members with opportunities for engagement and enrichment in STEM (e.g. competitions, tutoring, volunteering). Provides opportunities for student leadership and an emphasis on STEM content.
Sponsor: Heather_Hennis@mcpsmd.org
In the Naturalist club (formerly only mycology/mushroom club), we aim to explore the more detailed side of nature! We will discuss plants, arthropods (bugs included!), fungi, animals and any other critters one may see out in nature!
We also plan to discuss taxonomy, what’s edible, what's best avoided, what’s invasive (like LAAAANTERNFLIESSS!) and what could be dangerous, for when foraging, it’s best to check with a professional! Naturalist communities like ours can help with the ID process, and so can online ones like iNaturalist!
If you find something cool, foraged or for other purposes, you can bring it in for club meetings! we’ll have a field day (get it?) trying to identify it :). We also plan on taking at least one hike together… Inviting your friends is welcomed, for the more, the merrier!
Attendance is not required, however you may miss some info regarding identification techniques, and miss out on other people’s findings. We will release previous meeting’s slideshows in the reminder emails before club meetings.
We will have growing projects, and may even cook what we grow for snacks, and we frequently have cookies and other goodies during club meetings as snacks as well! Our main goal as a club is to get you to explore your more adventurous side, and become closer with nature as you do!
You get to learn about a topic as vast as gardening, you get to enjoy edible mushrooms in different types of cooking, and you get hands-on experience.
Sponsor: karl_f_kovacs@mcpsmd.org
The Oncology Club is a place for people interested in cancer, oncology, and medicine. You will get to learn a lot about cancer, warning signs, and see how cancer is treated and what the process is like. You will have opportunities to go tour radiation therapy labs and hospitals where cancer is diagnosed and treated, and also have the opportunity to give your own cancer presentations.
1. Field trips to radiation therapy labs and hospitals
2. Guest Speakers from Oncologists and people in the field
3. Raise cancer awareness and learn more about it
Sponsor: Karl_F_Kovacs@mcpsmd.org
Is your physics grade falling out of equilibrium? The Physics Club is dedicated to supporting physics students at RM of all experience levels. We meet to review for tests in physics classes, provide tutoring, and participate in fun group activities.
Review for physics tests as a group, provide an accessible platform to ask questions on class material, tutoring available, participate in group physics/engineering activities.
Sponsor: matt_j_davis@mcpsmd.org
The RM Quantum Club is a space where students interested in quantum concepts and career fields can meet to learn more about what quantum is and its applications. Meetings will include lessons on quantum principles, discussions with guest speakers, and information about quantum opportunities outside of school.
Learn about quantum concepts and careers
Listen to quantum professionals talk about their fields
Learn about quantum opportunities outside of school (summer programs, internships, etc.)
Sponsor: Charles_J_GoetzIII@mcpsmd.org
RM Apples is a club focused on innovation through app development. You’ll learn how to code with FlutterFlow, an industry-leading development tool, to create apps that solve real-world problems in your community. You’ll also learn the business side of app development, including market research, monetization strategies, and entrepreneurship skills, so your app can become a long-term, successful product. Club participants will also have the chance to develop their own personal apps, which can be entered into school-wide and national competitions. By the end of the year, you will have the skills and resources to successfully publish an app on popular app stores, with the potential to reach and monetize a global audience.
Gain hands-on experience in developing, publishing, and leading app development projects.
Compete in school-wide and national competitions.
Publish and monetize your dream app for a real-world impact.
Sponsor: heather_hennis@mcpsmd.org
We offer interactive lessons and a variety of CTF (Capture the Flag) challenges where you break digital structures safely. Lots of opportunities to attend both virtual and offline competitions to meet fellow amateurs and professionals in the field.
1. For beginners and enthusiasts alike (we remember what it's like to know nothing)
2. Will cover lots of topics according to the interests of our members
3. Opportunities to participate in CTF (Capture the Flag) competitions for hands-on learning at any level
Sponsor: heather_hennis@mcpsmd.org
Emerging diseases kill millions of people each year and pose an enormous threat to human health. From antibiotic resistance to unethical research to the next pandemic, the threats we face are numerous and complex. RMED seeks to involve students in the growing global fight against emerging diseases and cover topics spanning multiple fields, including virology, biotech, public health, and computer modeling.
1. Engage in crisis simulations
2. Support global health initiatives
3. Hear from expert speakers
Sponsor: allison_g_adams@mcpsmd.org
The RM Rocketry Club is a hands-on, STEM-focused club where students design, build, and launch rockets while exploring the principles of physics and engineering. This club will work together on exciting coding and hands on projects. This club is for a future engineers, scientists, those who loves rockets, or just anyone no matter what experience they have in rocketry. Our club offers a fun and collaborative environment that delves into content about space and flight.
1. Hands on building project for rockets
2. Calculations with physics and coding
3. Teamwork and skill building
Sponsor: charles_j_goetziii@mcpsmd.org
It’s a marine biology club where we can learn more about the life of the ocean! We will do hands on activities like fundraisers or small trips to nearby creeks, etc. A club for learning and fun.
Join if...
You are interested in marine biology or oceanography, like making new friends and learning about new species, and like helping give back through fundraisers.
Sponsor: Renee_L_Harmon@mcpsmd.org
RM STEMConnect is a hands-on STEM club where students get to explore different areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. Each meeting, we focus on a new topic with fun projects and activities. Whether you’re into engineering, coding, or just curious about STEM, this club is for you! It’s a great place to learn new skills, work with others, and find out what a career in STEM might look like.
Hands on Activities
Guest speakers/Professional connections
Presentations about careers
Sponsor: heather_hennis@mcpsmd.org
At the robotics club we practice design and engineering, including the integration of programming. We do 3D modelling, learn 3D printing, and work with Arduino. The RM Robotics team has individuals from all four grade levels, and competes in the yearly First Tech Challenge (FTC), where we learn teamwork, sportsmanship, and the engineering process.
Participate and compete in fun competitions and hackathons in teams or as individuals!
Sponsor: kevin_r_martz@mcpsmd.org
Science Olympiad team members will study, practice, and participate in a nationwide competition that challenges teams of students in 23 events with topics in life science, physical science, earth and space science, as well as technology and engineering. Two to three team members work together in each Division C (high school) event.
We work a lot on team build events, which are engineering challenges built around a set of predetermined rules (for example, a ping pong parachute or Rube Goldberg machine). These are always really fun to do, and everyone learns a lot!
There's a wide array of events, some of which involve identifying fossils and birdsong, decrypting codes, performing experiments like titrations, modeling protein structure and star movements, and many more!
We go to tournaments every year, and we've ranked in the top places.
Sponsor: wendy_o_sparks@mcpsmd.org / rmhs.scienceolympiad@gmail.com
Teach & Learn Code is a chapter of an organization called Kids with Code. In this club you will be working on fun and exciting coding projects with your peers. You will LEARN computer science skills and build projects you can use in real life! Additionally if you already have done coding in the past you can TEACH us how you made your project or present it.
NO CODING EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED TO JOIN!
Learn to code projects such as a voice assistant (like Alexa), a mystery pizza game, a zodiac soulmate predictor, your very own website and more!
Teach other highschool students in the club how to code projects that YOU make!
Grow your coding skills (and social skills) by being a part of our passionate community of student coders.
Sponsor: karl_f_kovacs@mcpsmd.org
Students will conduct mock crime investigations (fingerprinting, polygraphs, autopsy analysis, etc.) review- real- cold cases with modern techniques, and learn about the science behind solving crimes.
We will...
1. Engage in investigation simulation
2. Learn about forensic techniques
3. Learn about career paths in forensics
Sponsor: karl_f_kovacs@mcpsmd.org
We're all about understanding crimes that have occurred through forensic science, as well as why they happened, and what we as a society can do in the future in order to limit recidivism, and overall better our society through the lenses that criminology affords us.
We will:
1. Bring in professionals in the field such as in law enforcement or criminology, to speak to the members about what they do and how their experiences have impacted their worldview.
2. Discuss past cases, and what happened, and what could have been done to potentially prevent the crime.
3. Discuss fields of forensic science and understand their roles and bringing a case to trial, and in some cases, watch videos of the work, or do the work ourselves.
Sponsor: Karl_F_Kovacs@mcpsmd.org
Youth Pioneers in STEM (YPSTEM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has a goal of providing students the opportunity to discover their passion in all fields of STEM through virtual workshops, competitions, and other initiatives. YPSTEM is recognized globally with 12+ chapters of high school students working towards promoting STEM opportunities regardless of gender, ethnicity, or financial status.
YPSTEM at RMHS is open to all students where we will be engaging in a multitude of different STEM related activities such as virtual workshops/competitions, science experiments to explain scientific topics, awareness campaigns, STEM presentations, and so much more.
Join if you...
Are interested in STEM-related topics, want to meet others also interested in STEM, want to engage in virtual STEM workshops/competitions.
Sponsor: charles_j_holt@mcpsmd.org
In this club we will learn about different species of animals once a week as well as do fun activities related to them!
1. We will discover more species of animals or interesting facts about ones you may know.
2. We are a community/space where you can talk with peers and make friends.
3. We are an environment open to animal lovers or people just picking up a hobby.
Sponsor: noah_grosfeld-katz@mcpsmd.org