Clark School students, faculty, staff, and alums are engineering breakthroughs for the future—all while helping people today. Across Maryland, our school is accelerating partnerships and innovating solutions to our state’s, nation’s, and world’s most pressing challenges.
Published on May 12, 2026 | Story by Katherine Shaver | Illustrations by Alex Foster
In Prince George’s County, educators are empowering hundreds of rising high schoolers with a hands-on jump start in engineering. In College Park and Shady Grove, college students are preparing for a healthcare industry transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. In a West Baltimore neighborhood, an engineering makerspace is igniting young learners’ imaginations—and helping to inject new investment into a financially struggling community.
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Through play and friendly competition, the Women in Engineering Program encourages middle schoolers and students from underrepresented communities to pursue STEM educations, transforming the lives of young people throughout Prince George’s, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel Counties.
Terrapin Works has opened a new makerspace in Baltimore’s Mondawmin neighborhood that provides adults with professional expertise, instills in young people a lifelong passion for creative thinking, and helps an entire community build a brighter future together.
With a highly selective new joint degree program, engineering, math, and computer science students earn a B.S. in College Park and then an M.D. in Baltimore. They excel at using the latest technology and providing clinical care.
In state-of-the-art facilities in Rockville, we’re preparing students to be leaders in the new, in-demand field of biocomputational engineering. With high-performance GPUs and sophisticated AI, these students are at the forefront of a healthcare revolution, learning how to turn troves of medical data into actionable, personalized insights.
Researchers in Southern Maryland are training autonomous robots to fly and swim safely, even when conditions are variable or the unexpected occurs. From helping during emergencies to delivering our medications, these robots are improving our lives.
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