Top High Schools & FIRST

[Rich Wong]

I am looking at the "2007 List of Top High Schools in the USA" as reported by U.S. News from last week
(http://www.usnews.com/articles/educa...ated-links:TOP)
and I wondered how many of these schools are part of FIRST.

I only know the NYC schools and they are (from the TOP):
Stuyvesant HS (Team 695)
Bronx Science HS (Team 1155)
Staten Island Tech HS (Team 375)
Brooklyn Tech HS (Team 334)
All great schools with great FRC teams.

I bet many other schools on this list is part of the FIRST community.
Take a lookand point them out to us!

[David55]

I know that team 125 (the Nutrons) has a lot of students from Boston Latin School (19).

[nautica]

We're not that high, but team 846, the Funky Monkeys from Lynbrook HS in San Jose are ranked 73rd.

[Nica F.]

#10 Preuss School Ucsd San Diego County, La Jolla, California is team 812 midnight mechanics

They've won Regional Chairman's before too

[115inventorsam]

Monta Vista HS (MVRT 115) is ranked 59th

Others that I recognized, besides 846:
Mission San Jose HS(2489): 49th
Gunn HS (192): 66th
Saratoga HS (649): 72nd
Palo Alto HS (8): 85th

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Whitney Young Magnet School has participated for several years and other Chicago schools on the list may be starting rookie teams this year. Stevenson High School has had teams in the past.

[Tytus Gerrish]

Suncoast Community High School #51 (Team 179)

[StephLee]

None of the schools from Maryland seem to have a team...hmm...

[Lil' Lavery]

#1, Thomas Jefferson High School [for Science and Technology], does not have a team, and not for a lack of trying. Other Fairfax County schools have been attempting to start a team at TJ for years (almost a decade), but the school hasn't been interested.

#37 Langley High (FRC611)
#88 Oakton High (FRC623)
Both do.
(Any way to check the list from 101-500 like in previous years?)

[chris31]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

#1, Thomas Jefferson High School [for Science and Technology], does not have a team, and not for a lack of trying. Other Fairfax County schools have been attempting to start a team at TJ for years (almost a decade), but the school hasn't been interested.

#37 Langley High (FRC611)
#88 Oakton High (FRC623)
Both do.
(Any way to check the list from 101-500 like in previous years?)

They do however have a BotBall team. http://activities.tjhsst.edu/botball/

[dtengineering]

I strongly encourage people to take lists such as this about as seriously as they take "the top 1000 songs of all time" or the "top 100 movies of the year" lists. They are, perhaps, good for entertainment and discussion purposes, and there are likely some very good high schools (or songs, or movies) on the list, but summarizing a school based on a few test results and limited demographic information is kind of like summarizing a person based on their final exam scores in English and Math. (I'm not saying this doesn't happen... I'm just saying it is so far from comprehensive as to be essentially irrelevant.)

The US News criteria does attempt to go a bit further than some lists of this nature, by taking into account demographic information of the students, but how they weight these factors and others is purely arbitrary.

So while generating a list like this is good business for US News (heck... I went to their site to look for their criteria) I wouldn't put too much weight on it.

Jason

[Pat Arnold]

It was nice to see some FL schools with FIRST teams on the list. Suncoast and Team 179 have been mentioned. I'd like to recognize our good friends on Team Resistence: 86. Their school, Stranton College Prep in Jacksonville, was rated #9. Team 86 produces consistently competitive, amazing robots.

[BandChick]

#7 - High Tech High School used to be Team 30, but they haven't had a team since 2003.

I found it really interesting that some of the Top 100 SCHOOL DISTRICTS have FIRST, but not necessarily FRC Programs.
The three from NY that I found:
#29 - Horace Greeley has an FLL team
#52 - Rye School District has an FLL team
#71 - Cold Spring ELEMENTARY has an FLL team

#94 - NJ FIRST has been after Princeton to start an FRC Team for quite a while. We're hoping we'll break in soon!

[Sunbun]

#82 San Marino High - Team 1160
#89 PV Peninsula High - Team 2637 (rookie)

At a glance, I also see that West Covina High (968), Mira Costa High (half of 294), and West High (1/4 of 1197) got silver awards.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sunbun;655942[SIZE=2

West High (1/4 of 1197) [/size]

Finally! (On being at least part of a team.) So when are you guys going to get Sherry High onto the team?