- OUR MISSION -

The NexGen STEM Academy at Salisbury Middle School seeks to develop a holistic student that is intrinsically motivated to assess and solve community and global problems through innovation, collaboration, and reflection.

- PROGRAM OVERVIEW -

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Our program consists of students that are team-oriented problem-solvers, creative- tinkerers, willing to take risks and learn from failures, while also possessing an increased interest in science and technology.
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Starting with the 2018-2019 school year, 50 eligible selected students entering 6th grade from all Wicomico County Schools will take the four core courses of Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, and English/Language Arts, as well as a designated Project Lead the Way- Gateway course.
Each course is taught using a STEM instructional approach that utilizes rigorous project/problem-based learning where appropriate, lessons that require inquiry, problem solving, decision making, connections to other content areas, discovery, technology usage inside and outside of the classroom, and cooperative learning with a high degree of interactive hands-on involvement.
The STEM academy is an inclusive "school within a school," where students loop with the STEM teachers and their classmates for all three years of middle school. In addition to these courses, students will take electives of their choosing.

- MORE INFORMATION -

Click to learn more about what our program has to offer.
Click to learn more about the NexGen STEM Academy teachers.
Click to see an example of the type of projects our students complete.

- ACADEMY NEWS AND UPDATES -

Updated Virtual- School
Supplies List- 2020-2021- 8.12.20

Below you will find an updated supplies list for the 2020-2021 school year, with strikethrough’s of items not needed for virtual learning. If you already purchased supplies that have strikethrough’s on this updated list, please hang on to those supplies as they will be needed when we return to in-person instruction, and over the course of the three years of the program.
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School Supplies List- 2020-2021

Here is the 2020-2021 Supplies List! These supplies will be used regardless of the scenario in which we return, and many of them can be used for all three years of the program.
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Interest Meeting- 5.13.20

Thank you for joining us for our interest meeting held on 5/13/20. Please find attached our presentation.
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More Information

For more information about our program, please see the attached brochure found below, and our "About NexGen" page.
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