The Ripken Foundation is celebrating 500 STEM Centers with an exciting partnership with the Exelon Foundation. A ribbon-cutting ceremony held at Lansdowne Middle School in Baltimore launched our three-year initiative to open 81 STEM Centers in Atlantic City, NJ; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Wilmington, DE; and Washington, D.C., thanks to Exelon.
This partnership takes our STEM Center initiatives to new heights with the inclusion of three new states - Illinois, Delaware, and New Jersey. BGE is funding four additional STEM Centers, including one of which that opened in 2023 at Aberdeen Middle School.
To date, the Ripken Foundation has spread our STEM Center initiative to 23 states, impacting over 190,000 youth with the help of over 7,000 mentors and teachers.
To learn more about our STEM Center initiative, click here.