How the body and the job work
Anatomy and physiology, how clinicians reason through a case, and an honest look at what the field is like from the inside — taught by students a few years further down the same road.
Journey
The Year
It Took Off
STEMX spent 2025–26 doing the thing rather than describing it: one chapter, a room that kept filling up, and a run of days that took students somewhere they could not have gone alone.
150
Students reached in 2025–26
In a single school year, at a single chapter, run entirely by students.
What Happened
It stopped being
a small club
The year started as a handful of students running sessions for whoever showed up. It ended with 150 students through the programs, a schedule that filled itself, and a chapter that had to plan around its own size.
Most of what follows on this page happened because that room got big enough to be worth opening doors for — a championship robotics shop, a company’s leadership, a competition circuit. None of it was arranged by an adult on our behalf.
The Arc
2025 — 2026,
in order
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The Chapter OpensIIANT · McKinney
One school, two tracks
STEMX started at Imagine International Academy of North Texas with medicine and engineering running side by side. No entrance requirements, no application — students showed up and started working.
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The Room Fills150 students
The year it exploded
Across 2025–26 the chapter put 150 students through its programs. That growth is the reason everything below this line was possible; a small club does not get invited anywhere.
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Field VisitItkan Robotics
Inside a state championship shop
We spent a day in the warehouse of Itkan Robotics — Texas state champions, and one of the strongest robotics programs in the state. Students walked the build floor and saw what a competition robot actually takes: the fabrication, the iteration, the failures that came before the trophy.
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Guest SessionDeepen AI
Leadership from Deepen AI
Executives from Deepen AI sat down with the club and talked through how the work actually gets done — what the problems look like from inside a company, and what the path from a high school interest to that job really is.
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CompetitionScience fair
On the ISEF circuit
Members took projects to science fair, competing at the Texas A&M regional fair that feeds the International Science and Engineering Fair. Research, a board, judges, questions — the full thing, not a classroom version of it.
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Next2026 – 27
More schools
The model works at one school. The next year is about proving it travels — opening chapters beyond IIANT, run the same way, by the students who go there.
The Work
What students
actually did
Design it, model it, build it
Students worked the engineering process end to end and modelled their parts in CAD, so a design stopped being a sketch and became something that could be measured, changed and made.
Using the tools properly
Sessions on putting AI into real workflows — where it speeds work up, where it quietly gets things wrong, and how to stay the person responsible for the output.
Also Covered
- Anatomy
- Clinical reasoning
- Engineering design
- CAD modelling
- Robotics
- AI workflows
- Research methods
- Science fair prep
- STEM careers
Where This Goes
One chapter is
a proof, not
a finish line
Everything on this page happened at one school. The work now is making that repeatable: a second chapter, then a third, each run by its own students on its own schedule, using the same materials and holding the same open door.
- Students reached, 2025–26150
- Chapters open1 — IIANT, McKinney
- Program tracksMedicine and Engineering
- Competitions enteredScience fair, ISEF circuit
- StructureNonprofit, student-run
If a number is not on this list, we do not have it yet.
Next Year
Be In It
Join as a member, or start the chapter at your own school.