Maryland STEM Career Fair at Morgan State

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From a great day at Morgan State. Technical career exploration, and programming traffic lights, servo motors, state trooper lights, and holiday lights with just over 300 student visitors. Best of all were the like-minded educators who stopped by to brainstorm.


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