10850 Perry Highway

Wexford PA 15090

MySTEM Academy provides a unique experience for kids by helping them to identify, understand, and design STEM solutions for real-world problems, preparing them to become future innovators and leaders.

We offer online and in-person summer camps and after-school programs for kids 8-12 years old focused on robotics and coding. With 11 years of experience mentoring robotics teams to participate in regional and international events, our students have won several prestigious international awards and scholarships.

Created by an engineer and a former faculty from Carnegie Mellon University, MySTEM Academy has trained over 4,000 children in the past 11 years.

2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League Robotics Teams

City Shaper FLL Season

The following MySTEM Academy teams participated in the Western PA FLL Championship Open Division on 12/15:

Raptorbots: First Place Award in the Robot Game with 500 points and recipient of one of the Champions Award.
Team N.E.X.T: First Place Award in Robot Strategy.
YinZ GirlZ: First Place Award in Core Values Team Work.

The following MySTEM Academy teams participated in the Western PA FLL Championship Scholastic Division on 12/14/2019:

Team B.O.T: One of the recipients of the Champions Award.
Triple B: First Place Award in Project Innovation.

Congratulations to all!

2020 Fall Schedule

Wexford, PA 15090

MySTEM Academy offers Online and In-Person Classes in fall 2020.

Online Classes: Students will use their own Lego Set, download software to their home computer, and attend Zoom classes.

In-Person Classes: Students will attend classes at MySTEM Academy following our Healthy and Safety Guidelines during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Each student will be provided with a Lego robot, a 2020 Macbook Air laptop, and a challenge mat.

Click here to learn more.

Inspire Award at the World Festival

April 7th, 2019 - Detroit, MI

Former MySTEM Academy students won the prestigious Inspire Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Festival on 4/27/2019 in Detroit, MI. Out of the 160 teams participating in the World Festival, the judges recognized the team members' outstanding mechanical design, programming, their connection to local engineering companies, and extensive outreach activities.

In addition to winning the Inspire Award, they also won first place on the robot game in its division competing with another 79 teams, earning the right to play the championship at Ford Field performing to over 40,000 participants and spectators.

"We are happy to have such high quality programs

for kids here in Pittsburgh. Highly recommended!"

Robin Shoop, Director, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy

Creating leader and innovator for the 21st century

Growing a New Generation

MySTEM Academy was created in 2010 by Maria Yamanaka (Masters degree in Engineering from CMU) and Marcel Bergerman (former faculty at the CMU Robotics Institute).

MySTEM Academy mission is to inspire young students to learn and apply STEM by engaging them into hands-on and team-oriented programs that lead to innovation and future leaders.

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