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Advanced STEM Club @ La Plata Branch!

Dissolving Metal
2025-09-17 14:00:00 2025-09-17 15:00:00 America/New_York Advanced STEM Club @ La Plata Branch! La Plata Branch -

Wednesday, September 17
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-17 14:00:00 2025-09-17 15:00:00 America/New_York Advanced STEM Club @ La Plata Branch! Join us for our monthly Advanced STEM Club where we will experiment, explore, and learn while having fun exploring the principles of science, technology, engineering, and math! La Plata Branch -

Join us for our monthly Advanced STEM Club where we will experiment, explore, and learn while having fun exploring the principles of science, technology, engineering, and math!

For this program, we will be learning about the ways in which metal undergoes chemical reactions, including dissolution!

We offer Advanced STEM Club @ La Plata on the third Wednesday of each month.

Note: Please register each child who will be attending separately.

Please email Sarah Anderson at sanderson@ccplonline.org with any questions.

Advanced STEM Club is a monthly program designed for children and teens ages 9 to 18. Younger participants may have difficulty with the projects and/or concepts. In this monthly program, participants are given the opportunity to explore the principles of science, technology, engineering, and math through fun and engaging experiments and lessons, led by CCPL staff. 

Advanced STEM Club is also offered at our Waldorf West Branch.
Check out our full schedule of STEM Club & Advanced STEM Club programs, here.

AGE GROUP: | Tweens | Teens |

EVENT TYPE: | STEM | Life Skills |

TAGS: | stem | Advanced STEM Club |

Charles County Public Library events are accessible for all. If you have an accessibility request, please contact programs@ccplonline.org three business days prior to the event.

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