Leesburg, VA, April 22, 2025 – Julia Miller, a member of the Academies of Loudoun (ACL) FIRST® Robotics Competition Team (RoboLoCo), has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Women in STEM Scholarship sponsored by Dominion Energy in partnership with FIRST Chesapeake.
Julia has been a part of FIRST and ACL RoboLoCo for two years, with this season being her junior year. Julia received a $1,000 scholarship from Dominion Energy and FIRST Chesapeake on April 22, 2025. When asked about receiving the scholarship, Julia said, “It felt so amazing to receive the scholarship, but the most rewarding thing about it was that the team was behind me through it all. These are the friends that I’ve made into family, and I’m so grateful for them and all their support.”
Julia is a member of the ACL RoboLoCo mechanical subteam and the Impact presentation team. The Academies of Loudoun is happy to announce her success and wish Julia the best for the future.
The Academies of Loudoun “RoboLoCo” team (team 5338) is a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team competing in the Chesapeake District. ACL RoboLoCo is one of several thousand FRC teams across the globe. FRC is the highest level of FIRST competitions, above FLL (4th – 8th grade) and FTC (7th – 12th grade). FIRST, a nonprofit organization, releases a new game every year, and teams have nine weeks to build a robot to compete with, fitting with the organization’s mission to inspire young people to be leaders in the fields of Science and Technology, by engaging them in exciting student-based programs that involve problem solving, creativity, and analytical reasoning. For more information about ACL RoboLoCo, go to https://blogs.lcps.org/roboloco/.