A community collaboration initiative that integrates STEM-minded Redlegs ‘from the line to the lesson’ with the STEM efforts of Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma.
Soldiers, civilian engineers, and STEM educators visit Lawton-area elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the year. Demonstrations, Q&A, and hands-on activities tied to the science the students are studying.
Volunteer support for FIRST LEGO League and adjacent competitions held at the Tomlinson STEM Arena at Life Ready Center. We coach, judge, mentor, and on a good day, hand out parts when a chassis falls apart twenty minutes before the run.
Joint projects with educators and service members in school maker spaces — building, prototyping, and problem-solving in formats students can take home, build on, and show their families.
Multi-day camps run with university partners. The 2025 STEM Aerospace Camp at FISTA — staffed jointly with Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, and the Fort Sill Redlegs — is the model for what we're scaling next.
THE MISSION of RLFS is to channel the technical expertise of working Field Artillery Soldiers into the K–12 classrooms of Lawton and the surrounding corridor — so the kids who will become tomorrow's engineers, scientists, and Soldiers see those careers up close, in their own classrooms.
Two-day camp at FISTA Innovation Park, jointly staffed by OSU, Cameron, and the Fort Sill Redlegs. High schoolers from Lawton, Cache, and Elgin flew drones, ran an egg-drop competition, and joined a live call with Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise.
Read on KSWO →Profile of the Consortium — the coalition Redlegs for STEM operates inside — covering its scope, its civic backing from the City of Lawton, and the slate of programs it underwrites.
Read on KSWO →Ward 5 Councilman Allan Hampton joined the Cleveland Elementary Maker Space class with Redlegs for STEM and Lawton Public Schools. Coverage on the City of Lawton's official Facebook page.
View FB post →Founder, founding partners, and the working cohort of Field Artillery Soldiers and civilian volunteers who run our programs week to week. The first three cards are the founding team. Below them sit the active cohort.
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Same expanded format as Tim's gated bio — background, education, current role, and how this person plugs into the program. Populates when the slot is filled.
Same expanded format as Tim's gated bio — background, education, current role, and how this person plugs into the program. Populates when the slot is filled.
If you are a teacher who wants Redlegs for STEM in your classroom, a parent whose child would benefit from one of our programs, a Fort Sill Soldier who wants to volunteer, or a local business interested in supporting the work, write us. We answer.
ask@redlegsforstem.org