K-12 & Community Outreach
The 9,000 square foot K-12 & Community Outreach Center hosts high-quality, hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) camps and activities. These include FIRST Robotics, Science Olympiad and Science Technology Engineering Preview Summer (STEPS) Camp, among others. More than 10,000 students in the K-12 pipeline for STEM careers will benefit from the Innovation Design Center annually.
The space includes a dedicated FIRST Robotics practice field to host dozens of schools across West Michigan. New teams from low-income communities often do not have space to build robots and practice piloting skills prior to competing. Those students will now have that needed space.
![A view of an empty K-12 & community outreach center](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20190801_101431[1602778227].jpg)
![A view of K-12 outreach center set up with pod style seating](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20190801_101507(2)[1602778325].jpg)
![k-12 outreach center set up as a two classroom space](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20200116_130444[1602778412].jpg)
![aerial view of the FIRST Robotics field set up in the k-12 outreach center](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20200214_181228[1602778486].jpg)
![A view of the FIRST Robotics field game pieces](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20200214_181725[1602778541].jpg)
![K-12 outreach center FIRST Robotics field goals](/cms4/asset/039A9239-9546-E3E6-40E06EDBEC822E18/20200214_181617[1602778596].jpg)