BEYA
Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference (BEYA)
The BEYA STEM Community, over 10,000 strong, offers K-12 students, college students, corporate, government, military professionals, business, and industry employers with three (3) days of learning, networking, celebrating excellence, and showcasing STEM career opportunities.
The Patriots have been attending the BEYA conference for over 23 years. Our members have attended the workshops, mentoring programs, and exhibit hall to meet over 100 government agencies, IT organizations and college and universities representatives. Patriots has partnered with BEYA by recruiting 1200 students to attend the Pre-College and Mentoring Program. For the past four years, we have hosted the Patriots STEM Carnival at BEYA as well as the Women of Color Conference in Detroit, Michigan inviting government agencies, IT companies, and college universities as exhibitors and providing over 25 hands-on STEM exhibits that include:
- Biology, Chemistry and Math
- Coding
- Cyber Security
- Drone Racing
- Flight Simulation
- Health Exhibit
- Shipbuilding
- Solar System
- Video Game Design
- Virtual Reality
