Worth noting FRIST Robtics competition is also a great place to get students involved in STEM and involved in team building, since running a FIRST team requires

Worth noting FRIST Robtics competition is also a great place to get students involved in STEM and involved in team building, since running a FIRST team requires fundraising, design logos, order t-shirts, promote team event, so there are things for students who are not interested in the engineering part to do too, while learning more about STEM. Also parents are usually involved too... so more bonding time and more school-parent engagement. I co-founded FIRST Robotics team in my high school (all started because I wanted to run a club for college app lol). Then the following year after we won the All-Start award, our school created an “engineering program”, and our teams (yes, teams), battle with other nearby teams :) in NYC during off season.