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Fifty students from Health Careers Academy High School in Stockton and Health Professions High School in Sacramento gathered at UC Davis for the Summer Scrubs and Beyond program. The UC Davis C-STEM Center presented robotic demos to highlight the importance of mathematics in high school for students wishing to pursue a career in medicine.

The University of California, Davis has posted a video showcasing the C-STEM Center’s RoboPlay Competition and C-STEM Conference featuring a keynote speech by Chancellor Katehi. The video is currently posted to the UC Davis Homepage.

A team of students from the North Area Community School in the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) walked away with a top prize after impressing judges with the troupe of dancing robots they programmed. The North Area Community School is an alternative school. The school serves students in grades 7-12, who are referred by school districts, the Probation Department, or School Attendance Review Boards. The school aims to address the needs of students who have not been successful in traditional school settings with the C-STEM curriculum integrated with hands-on engaging computing and robotics activities.
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The 2nd UC Davis C-STEM Day was held on Saturday May 5, 2012. The 2012 C-STEM Day was organized by the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM) and College of Engineering with help from the UC Davis Computing and Robotics Outreach Club.

On April 28, the C-STEM Center hosted the Awards Ceremony for the NCWIT Affiliate Award for Aspirations in Computing. Winners from the Northern California Region spent the afternoon on the UC Davis Campus, which included lab tours and the Awards Ceremony.