Band of Steel FLL

06/23/2025

Kidsburgh

Ocean pollution can seem like a bigger problem than anything one person can tackle, but we can each make a difference.

06/23/2025

Saving the Seas - Saketh V, Ben F

Written by Wave Maker: Saketh Veeramachaneni - 11 years old from Pittsburgh, PAThe Ocean covers 70% of our planet, yet, we don’t know a lot of things about it. We need to understand and learn about it to know how to properly take steps to protect it.So, what do we know about the oceans?We know tha...

06/23/2025

Saving the Seas - Nathan B

Did you know over 33 billion pounds of plastic waste enters the ocean every single year? That’s over 16 million tons! Could you imagine if you had to live with that much trash in your home? Sadly that’s what ocean animals have to live with. The ocean is one of the most important things to humans...

05/13/2025

Band of Steel at Baierl YMCA Healthy kids day

05/13/2025

05/11/2025

Join us Saturday, May 17 @ 10am EST as we stream live as part of the Festival! Band of Steel will be hosting a virtual session, “Why Healthy Oceans are Important”.
About the session:
We learned through our research that the critical issue Oceans are facing today is the lack of solid science communication to general public. So we started educating why healthy Oceans are important for everyone regardless of where they live and small steps that we all can take make a difference to protect them.

05/11/2025

Our team had the opportunity to discuss our ocean education program on the Saturday Light Brigade radio show! SLB broadcasts to locations throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Arizona. Check out the recording of our interview!

Band of Steel robotics team members Benjamin, Saketh, Ethan, Oliver, Zilin, and Luke on their project designed to educate young people on ocean health.

05/02/2025

Tune in to The Saturday Light Brigade live radio show, 88.3 FM in Pittsburgh, tomorrow, 5/3 at 10:35am! Band of Steel will be guests on the show, discussing our program for educating youth on ocean health.

Band of Steel first robotics team members Benjamin Feath (7th grade, Ryan Gloyer Middle School), Saketh Veeramachaneni (6th grade, Sewickley Academy), Ethan Murick (8th grade, Ingomar Middle School), Oliver…

04/30/2025

Join Band of Steel for a book reading of "The Adventures of Shelly and Shelldon" at Sewickey Public Library on 5/3!

Band of Steel (which is NOT a steel drum band!) is coming to Sewickley Public Library, Saturday, May 3rd at 2:00pm!! They are a local ROBOTICS TEAM! You can still register your kids in kindergarten through 5th grades to come see how robots can work in the ocean!