2025 STM Backpack Drive

Each year STM collects brand new backpacks and school supplies to provide Montgomery County students in need! Our goal this year is to provide 2,500 students with a brand new backpack filled with supplies.

Collection boxes for school supplies are located throughout Montgomery County at the sites below:
Takoma Park – TPSS Co-op (201 Ethan Allen Ave), Tabletopdc (6927 Laurel Ave), and Old Takoma Ace Hardware (7001 Carroll Ave), The Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church (6951 Carroll Ave), People’s Book (7014-A Westmoreland Ave).
Washington, DC– Yoga Heights (255 Carroll St NW)
Silver Spring – Heather Foley (12722 Two Farm Drive) & Natalie Miller (110 Hamilton Avenue)
Bethesda – Bunnag Comprehensive Dentistry (6501 Democracy Blvd)
Rockville – The Studio of Colour & Design by Margie Billian (14016 Flint Rock Road)
Gaithersburg – 205 Tschiffely Square Road
Derwood – Michele Levy (16708 Heartwood Drive)


Thank you to our amazing partners above as well as Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), GFWC Metropolitan Community Club (MCC), The Monitor Group, Continuum Healthcare Network Telemedicine Program, STM Club at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, Xometry, Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC, Wellpoint, and our community!