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Re: Texas Registration 2015
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Originally Posted by Redo91 View Post
Hopefully someone can correct me if this is wrong. Wasn't the spike in 2009 from JCPenney sponsoring a lot of teams?

What is the growth of other STEM programs?
I thought it due to the TWC program? They were promoting new teams in Texas for two years, correct?

FIRST and UIL/Texas are talking and the TEA is approving or starting to approve more robotics classes. In our district robotics classes and computer science classes can now count as math and science credits. For the FIRST (pun intended) time this year there is an official STEM track for a high school diploma. This is only a rumor but I think AP Computer Science 2 qualifies as a foreign language credit! Plus we now have a Cyber Patriot team and our sister high school (Rockwall-Heath High School, home of FRC 3310) won an International Rocketry Competition in 2013. This is all in the last few years.
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