How One Middle School Teacher is Helping Students Shine in STEM

Posted on August 4, 2025

Aaron Mueller has been teaching seventh grade science in Naperville, Illinois, for 25 years. And while his career has taken him through everything from coaching basketball to building an outdoor classroom, his most recent adventure with AEOP’s eCYBERMISSION program has been one of the most rewarding yet. See More

 

Ready, Set, Race: JSS 2025 Racers Speed Across the Finish Line

Posted on July 14, 2025

Around 90 Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) teams traveled near and far to race their uniquely crafted solar-powered cars at the 2025 National Technology Student Association Conference in Nashville, Tenn., from June 27-July 1. See More

 

Youth Innovators Shine at NJ&EE 2025

Posted on July 9, 2025

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024-2025 eCYBERMISSION competition! From June 23–27, 2025, 20 National Finalist and 5 STEM-In-Action Grant teams in grades 6–9 gathered in Chantilly, Virginia, for the 23rd annual National Judging and Educational Event (NJ&EE) — the grand finale of the eCYBERMISSION competition. See More

 

Cooper Taylor’s Drones are Cheaper and More Efficient

Posted on June 27, 2025

As any engineer will tell you, a good project always starts with a problem to solve. For Cooper Taylor, a student from Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut, the problem was figuring out how to make his little sister’s drone fly longer than 30 minutes before dying.  See More

 

Celebrating the Winners of the 63rd National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Posted on April 29, 2025

​The 63rd annual National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (NJSHS), held from April 22–26, 2025, in Chantilly, Virginia, celebrated the innovative research of 239 high school students from across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and DoDEA schools worldwide. See More

 

AEOP and Future Engineers Unveil Winners of 2025 AEOP Veterans Appreciation Challenge

Posted on April 2, 2025

April 2, 2025 – The AEOP Veterans Appreciation Challenge, a joint effort from the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) and Future Engineers, today announced the winners of the 2025 competition. See More

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