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Re: FIRST in Your School District
Glendale Unified (California) has teams in two of its five high schools:
589 - Crescenta Valley High
696 - Clark Magnet High
Sadly, there has never been interest shown from the other three schools. Also, FIRST is purely extracurricular and heavily volunteer-based, at least at Clark Magnet. The time commitment from teachers is something that is not easy to achieve. I'm hoping starting next school year we can have one class period of all FIRST students.
Due in part to successful efforts to build up robotics and engineering programs at Clark Magnet, the school district is ramping up the use of robotics in the middle school and elementary school levels. At Clark, we have made a robotics programming module a small part of our Technical Literacy curriculum for every 9th grade student.
I would say we probably have about 5 elementary schools and 2 (of 4) middle schools involved in Lego robotics. Soon, each of the four middle schools will be receiving three new Vex kits each, and hopefully they'll be forming Vex teams.
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Teacher/Engineer/Machinist - Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2011 - Present
Mentor/Engineer/Machinist, Team 968 RAWC, 2007-2010
Technical Mentor, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2005-2007
Student Mechanical Leader and Driver, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2002-2004
Last edited by sanddrag : 18-04-2012 at 19:09.
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