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Our team is involved with Hawthorne and Chatsworth at Educator Summit WESTEC today

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WESTEC is making FIRST program their focus for education summit.

Then tomorrow thu 600 students are bussed in to LA Sports Arena to view practice competitions and pits from balcony. They're only there for an hour starting 12:20p. Small groups may get on the floor tours.

fyi to delphi, our team will be passing out to all those students skateboard keyrings with stickers that have 4 important web addresses...
www.usfirst.org
www.chiefdelphi.com
www.bcrobotics.org
Redondo Fun Factory (ok, not a web address, their address is too long for the stickers, but they donated the keyrings)

Hope all those students, family, friends scope out chiefdelphi for inspiration to start their own school's robotics' team, as WESTEC is hoping.


***update***

The evening afternoon and evening went great. We have a few rookie teams for 2005 season - Long Beach and San Bernadino. Utah was checking it out. Manufacturers and teachers had a lot of questions and were getting inspired. The last speaker at the VIP dinner spoke with great enthusiasm about going to his first FIRST competition a couple of years ago, exclaiming that if you love high school sports like football, etc, go to this robotics' competition.

So impressed with Hawthorne's robotics' program in their school's curriculum. They were the featured team onstage. Will have pics later.

Bios of some attendees...

Dr Cheryl White- is the Assistant Superintendent,
Educational Services for the Centinela Valley Union
High School District. An urban school district,
Centinela Valley Union High School District serves the
feeder elementary districts of Hawthorne School
District, Lawndale School District, Lennox School
District and Wiseburn School District. She received
the Doctor of Education Degree from University of
California, Los Angeles. Currently, Dr. White teaches
the Instructional Supervision course in the Principal
Leadership Institute Program in the Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
Additionally, she serves as part-time faculty in the
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department
at California State University, Northridge. Dr. White
is committed to improving education in urban schools
and ensuring that all students have equal access to
high quality educational programs.lynwood ucla doc ,
teach ucla grad prog

Frank Dolce, principal and has worked for 39 years in
same school district, 31 years as a auto shop
instructor, has been an adnimistrator for the last 8
years, 3 of which as principal.

Mike Gustason, graduate of Southern Illinois
University with a BS in Systems Engineering, a MS from
Northridge university in Engineering Management,
previously employed with Northrop Grumman for 17 years
as flight test manager for the B2 aircraft. for the
last 8 years with Walt disney Imagineering holding the
current title of Director of Show Ride Laboratories at
WDI.

Kyle Depillo, graduate of Hawthorne High School,
involved in the robotics class for 3 years, last years
team co-captain, During his senior year participated
in job shadowing and received an internship at
Northrop Grumman and was hired in the fall on a part
time basis as he attends college of which Northrop
Grumman is covering the cost.

Steve Ferron- Graduate of Cal State univ. Long Beach,
BA in Industrial Technology, with a minor in
Geological sciences,has three teaching credentials
including a community college, has taught class for El
Camino college and has taught for 30 years in the same
school district, Started a Manufacturing academy in
conjunction with El Camino College 8 years ago, is
currently the Career Technologies department chairman,
co leader of a new California Career Partnership
academy in Engineering scheduled to be funded in the
fall utilizing "Project Lead the Way" curriculum
Owns a manufacturing business supplying parts to the
automotive and racing industry.
and is actively involved in vintage racing as the
technical director for General Racing.