Boston, MA – August 28, 2016: Fenway Park home of the Boston Red Sox during a regular season game
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CITGO Petroleum Corporation and the Boston Red Sox are bringing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to Fenway Park this year as they host two STEM days this season for Boston-area students to help their classroom STEM lessons come alive.
CITGO will invite 500 elementary and middle school students to the STEM Days as part of the CITGO STEM Talent Pipeline Program.
The first STEM Day took place April 6 and the next will occur Sept. 14. Both days include a pregame STEM fair on the Fenway Park concourse where students can learn about a variety of STEM concepts.
The students will get to take part in hands-on STEM activities that make use of the Fenway location, including an egg drop off the Green Monster. They will also get to stay for the day’s Red Sox baseball game, at which a robot designed by a local student robotics team will throw out the first pitch.
“Together, CITGO and the Boston Red Sox are a great team. The CITGO sign in Kenmore Square has become a symbol of Fenway Park, so it’s natural that CITGO and the Red Sox would work together to help give Boston students a fun and educational day,” Rafael Gómez, CITGO Vice President of Government and Public Affairs said in a statement. “These ‘Red Sox STEM Education Days Presented by CITGO’ will be a great opportunity for Boston students in grades 2 through 9 to get special STEM lessons that will enhance everything they’re learning in their classrooms.”
The Red Sox had also partnered with Museum of Science, Boston to bring STEM content to Fenway Park.
