Teacher Professional Development

The Towson University Center for STEM Excellence is committed to supporting in-service science teachers in Maryland with high-quality professional development experiences. We offer a variety of workshops that help teachers build content knowledge, increase technical skills and explore learner-centered, inquiry-based pedagogy.

Professional Learning Opportunities

elementary Teachers

Robot Rookies

HiTech Loaner Lab training

Robot Rookies is a workshop designed for 3rd-5th grade teachers in Maryland. Participants will learn how to engage students in computational thinking concepts using a hands-on programmable robots (e.g. Ozobots, Sphero Indi).

Teachers who attend both sessions will be eligible to borrow a class set of robots for three weeks through the HiTech Loaner Lab Program to implement a classroom lesson with their students.

Applications opening soon for 2026-2027! Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates.

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secondary science teachers

CyberAI Educator Academy

Application period is closed. 

The CyberAI Educator Academy is open to middle and high school Maryland teachers (from any discipline) interested in infusing cyberAI lessons into their teaching. The program is designed for teachers with little to no cybersecurity and/or artificial intelligence (AI) content knowledge. 

The program begins with an intensive, in-person summer professional learning experience (PLE) at Towson University (June 22–25). During the 2026–2027 school year, participants will implement two cyberAI lessons in their classrooms and attend a final in-person session in May, 2027.

Download Program Details (PDF).

Please note that this program builds on many of the same core principles and content as the B’More Codes GenCyber program previously offered by the Center for STEM Excellence. To ensure participants have access to new learning experiences, GenCyber alumni are not eligible to enroll in this program.

Curriculum and training in this project are partially supported by the NSA NCAE-C under Grant No. H98230-24-1-0096 at Towson University.

Maryland Loaner Lab Training Workshop

Our Maryland Loaner Lab (MDLL) program offers secondary science teachers kits of materials that include equipment, reagents and lessons. We ship the materials directly to your classroom; you send them back to us when you’re done.  

In order to borrow MDLL kits, teachers must attend a one-time training workshop.

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