Join PENC, the PENC Educational Foundation, and Wake STEM Advisory Board for a winter social and fundraiser on Monday, December 8!

Monday, December 8, 2025
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Raleigh Brewing Company
3709 Neil Street
Raleigh, North Carolina  27607

The PENC Educational Foundation works to fund STEM competitions geared towards middle school students and provides scholarships to students studying various engineering majors in North Carolina. We help organize, promote and fund two major competitions in North Carolina – MATHCOUNTS, a national math competition, and the Future City competition. To learn more about our work, please visit our website.

To help fund these programs, we are planning a Winter Social and Silent Auction to raise money for our 2026 activities. Each ticket to the event will include two drink tickets, access to the silent auction, and light snacks.

We will be featuring sponsorship opportunities and silent auction donation tiers. Any silent auction donations will be tax deductible and both options will include tickets to the event.

Registration will open soon!

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
The PENC Educational Foundation is a tax-exempt corporation that administers funding for PENC's educational service programs such as MATHCOUNTS, student paper competitions, scholarship awards, teacher recognition and chapter educational service programs.

MATHCOUNTS
MATHCOUNTS is a national math competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every US state and territory. Sponsored by PENC and NSPE, MATHCOUNTS is one of the most successful education partnerships involving volunteers, educators, industry sponsors and students. Learn more about North Carolina MATHCOUNTS competitions.

FUTURE CITY COMPETITION
The Future City Competition provides a fun and exciting education engineering program for seventh and eighth grade students. This is a hands-on engineering challenge and each team presents their vision of a city of the future. The competition is intended to foster engineering skills such as teamwork, communication and problem solving; provide interaction among students, teachers and engineer mentors; inform the community about the multi-disciplines within the engineering profession; and to inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering.

WAKE STEM
The mission of the Wake STEM Early College High School is to provide a highly supportive and academically challenging learning environment for students underserved in a traditional high school setting and underrepresented in the STEM disciplines, including first-generation college-going students, who will graduate prepared to compete globally in careers related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.