Lockheed Martin Explorer Post 6201
Join us in exciting weekly meetings to learn about Engineering, Team-Building, and work with Lockheed Martin Engineers!
Contact us for more info on the program or to join our waitlist for the 2026 program!
Discover and Develop your Engineering Skills!
Our program prepares students for a career in a STEM field, providing insights to common engineering processes, projects, and team-building exercises!
Team-building
Teamwork makes the dream work! Learn how to interact with team members, build lasting relationships, and work well with your peers!
Hardware Design
Learn the basics of structural design, electronics, physics, and more!
Budgeting
Learn how to manage a budget for an engineering project… from materials, to labor, to sales!
Marketing
Selling your product well is just as important as making it well… learn the basics of how to pitch your ideas to customers!
Project Management
Project and team planning can help make any idea succeed. Learn how to properly plan projects to guide your team to victory!
Coding
Turn your ideas into reality… Learn the basics of coding in C++ using the Arduino IDE!
Explorer Post 6201 Programs for 2025
The Great American Engineering Challenge
DIY Retro Gaming Console
Introduction to Structural 3D Printing
The Great American Engineering Challenge
Explorers in this project will compete in teams against one another in a series of hands-on engineering contests that involve skills that engineers use every day. Contests include an egg-drop, ping-pong ball launcher, iron shuttle landing pad, and many more! Winners of each weekly competition will receive a small prize, as well as overall team grand prizes at the end of the program.
Weekly Team-building Challenges
- Learn a new engineering concept each week!
- Pitch weekly projects to advisors for score
- Prizes awarded to each week’s winning team
End-of-program Expo
- Showcase some of the best creations from throughout the program
- Parents, Family, and Friends welcome!
- Presentation of team awards
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DIY Retro Gaming Console
Learn to build your own retro video game console from scratch using hardware, software, and electronics skills! Explorers in this course will learn the fundamentals behind electronics and specifically gaming consoles to help them in creating their own video game throughout the course! No prior experience in coding, electronics or hardware is required, as we will teach everything needed from the ground up. Join this project for a cumulative experience of building your own video game in just a few hours!
Build your own handheld retro game console from scratch!
- Learn the fundamentals of electronics projects
- Learn to model and design systems before production
- Covers Digital Modeling, Coding, Electronics, and Breadboarding!
End-of-program Expo
- Showcase some of the best creations from throughout the program
- Parents, Family, and Friends welcome!
- Presentation of team awards
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Introduction to Structural 3D Printing
Every day, 3D Printing is finding it’s way into our lives and processes. Never before has it been so easy to imagine a new product and have a prototype in your hands overnight. Throughout this project you will learn the basics of how to go from concept to product using Additive Manufacturing using a variety of materials and design fundamentals.
Turn your ideas into products!
- Learnt he basics of strong structures and shapes
- Learn to use 3D printers and slicing applications
- Print designs in materials like PLA, Tough PLA, Flexible TPU, and even SLA Resin!
End-of-program Expo
- Showcase some of the best creations from throughout the program
- Parents, Family, and Friends welcome!
- Presentation of team awards
Become an Engineer Today!
Discover your inner passion and talent for STEM and Engineering fields- sign up today!