Now hiring for the 2024/2025 season!

Looking for somewhere fun to work this summer? Check out our locations, dates, and applications below!

Come work with us!

New? Start here:

Camp Leader

Link to the Camp Leader application for the 24/25 season

Camp Counselor

Link to the Camp Counselor application for the 24/25 season

Student Employees

Link to the Student Project Assistant (Summer Camp) application for the 24/25 season

Returning employee? Go here:

Returning Camp Leaders / Counselors

Link to Google form to indicate interesting in returning from previous employees

Camp instructors and campers sitting around mission table
Our STEM camp staff make a different in many young Mainers’ lives. By mentoring our campers in in relevant skills like programming, engineering, troubleshooting, and so much more, our campers leave the summer with a better grasp of STEM concepts and greater confidence in their abilities.

2025 Season Info

Our 2024 summer camp season schedule:

  • Training (Week 0): June 16th – 20th (19th off)
  • Week 1: June 23rd – 27th
  • Week 2: June 30th – July 3rd (Friday, July 4th off)
  • Week 3: July 7th – 11th
  • Week 4: July 14th – 18th
  • Week 5: July 21st – 25th
  • Week 6: July 28th – August 1st
  • Week 7: August 4th – 8th

Our current locations:

  • Portland – USM Portland campus
  • Gorham – USM Gorham campus
  • Lewiston – USM Lewiston/Auburn campus
  • Brunswick – Kate Furbish Elementary
  • Augusta – UMA Augusta campus
  • Bangor – UMA Bangor campus
  • Camden – Camden/Rockport Middle School
  • Newcastle – Lincoln Academy

STEM camp topics:

  • LEGO Robotics – ages 9-12
  • Programming in Minecraft – ages 10-14
  • Astrophysics in Minecraft – ages 10-14
  • 3D Printing & Design – ages 12-16
  • Build Your Own Computer camp – ages 12-16
  • CubeSAT camp – ages 13-17
  • + more!

Click here to learn more about our STEM camp topics!

Working for STEM Outreach

What does working a STEM Outreach camp look like? Our camps are day-long programs that run on university campuses, elementary/middle/high schools, and rec centers across the state of Maine. Our office is in Portland, but we are looking for staff in several locations such as Augusta, Bangor, Farmington, Machias, Camden, Houlton, and many more. Camps are week-long sessions that run Monday-Friday, 9:00am to 3:30pm. Our camp staff mentor groups of 12-16 campers aged 9-17 years old in a wide variety of STEM topics. These are including (but not limited to) LEGO robotics, programming, computer architecture, 3D printing & design, and electronics. Our campers get 35 contact hours with our mentors, which means campers gain a lot of experience and confidence in these topics.

STEM Outreach takes our staffing seriously.  We aim to offer programs with highly qualified staff who will serve as mentors for the youth in our programs.  Because it is sometimes difficult to find people who are simultaneously good with children, experienced teaching, and have a background in engineering and computer science, we often will do our best to match up team members that provide all of these skills as a team.  STEM Outreach (formerly known as Maine Robotics) has been offering summer camps focused on Technology, Science, and Robotics since 2000.  Over 7000 children have attended these camps over the last 20+ years and we anticipate over 700 campers for the 2024 summer. The University of Southern Maine is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on gender, race, age, religion, or sexual orientation.  All employment at the USM STEM Outreach summer program is at-will employment.