2025-05-14T20:35:23-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 460573936 GROWINGSTEMS INC GROW 4435167836 PO Box 736 Hollywood MD 20636 Andrew Koch Treasurer 3014812754 2025-04-14 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X growingstems.org X X 177754 X 130970 41603 0 0 2364 0 2364 0 2679 0 2679 0 0 0 138 177754 0 0 0 41 52365 2956 43255 98617 79137 264221 0 343358 X 243887 317263 0 0 20797 26095 264684 343358 463 0 264221 343358 At growingSTEMS, our mission is to ignite a lifelong passion for learning and innovation by providing accessible and engaging robotics education to children of all ages. We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to explore, create, and excel in the world of robotics, and we are committed to empowering them with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world. FIRST Robotics - Mentors guide students through team-based problem-solving projects and compete via FIRST organization, which has 1000s of teams worldwide. Students also attend community events such as the St. Mary's College of Maryland River Concert Series (~5000 visitors) St. Mary's County Public School STEM events (~1000 visitors) and the US National Oyster Festival (~16000 visitors), where they provide free hands-on activities such as building paper rockets, driving robots, and simple chemistry experiments. This category includes the FIRST FRC and FTC teams. 0 22979 Combat Robotics - Program participants develop engineering skills and design/manufacture robots focused on violence for use in various competitions (e.g., National Havoc Robot League). This category includes the internal and travel teams, as well as the in-house combat-focused summer camps. 0 16666 VEX Robotics - Mentors guide students through team-based problem-solving projects and compete via the FIRST organization. This category includes the VEX IQ and GO teams. 0 943 40588 Erik Wood Chairman 0.3 0 0 0 Zachary Stachelczyk Vice Chairman / Executive Director 40 0 0 0 Andrew Koch Secretary / Treasurer 12 0 0 0 Larry Branthoover Member at Large 0.3 0 0 0 Petra Branthoover Member at Large 0.3 0 0 0 John Ingram Member at Large 0.3 0 0 0 Tim Miedzinski Member at Large 10 0 0 0 Tom Moulds Member at Large 0.3 0 0 0 Stephen Page Member at Large 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MD Andrew Koch PO Box 736 Hollywood MD 20636 3014812754 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 26496 27918 47997 27561 30970 160942 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26496 27918 47997 27561 30970 160942 160942 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 160942 46785 1 0.38355 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Description;Amount^4810 Competition Prizes;500|4920 Services Discounts;-360|Rounding;-2^Total;138^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^5210 Bank fees and service charges;95|5230 Merchant account fees;1285|5310 Office supplies;110|5350 Software and apps;80|5450 Licenses and permits;250|5520 Liability insurance;793|5900 Miscellaneous;15|6100 FRC;21529|6200 FTC;1450|6300 VEX IQ;943|6500 Combat Robotics;16666|7030 Vehicle expenses;39^Total;43255^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^1450 Equipment;16297|1460 Vehicles and trailers;4500|1100 Accounts Receivable;4561|1500 Payments to deposit;737^Total;26095^