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Welcome to OS STEM

Phil Kimmel, Melanie Kapolka, and Lauren Marchelletta, are STEM consultants at Oakland Schools. As STEM consultants, they reside in the K-12 Career Readiness Department at Oakland Schools, and strive to provide cross curricular learning opportunities, real world connections, and experiences that promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. For more information, please contact with  Phil, Melanie, and Lauren.

Oakland Schools 2024-2025 CR-STEM Conference

Registration is Now Open!
Monday, March 10, 2025

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students build robotic cars using computers and coding.

STEMi

Oakland Schools’ STEMi Mobile Innovation Station, a mobile lab designed to engage K-12 students, teachers and families in one-of-a-kind Industry 4.0 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) experiences.

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STEMco

The Oakland Schools STEM checkout system (STEMco) is a lending library of STEM equipment. The goal of the checkout system is to provide districts with access to equipment that will support their K-12 STEM goals.

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OCCRA

The Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association is a full-contact robotics competition; students build and control 120 pound robo-gladiators to place balls or achieve other goals while opponents try to stop them.

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