FIRST in Your School District

[Grim Tuesday]

Since we are the only high school in our district, we are the only FRC team. We've discussed splitting into two teams due to our size but decided against it unless it gets really out of hand. It's our teams goal to get a Jr. FLL team in each of our Elementary Schools (7, we're at 4 now), and help out at the Middle Schools with their existing programs (Science Olympiads at one and TSA at another). We're also looking into starting an FRC team in a neighboring district.

It hasn't been the school board that's funding this expansion within our district, though, we do it out of our teams pockets. That's not to say they haven't been supportive, but they haven't exactly been willing to throw money at us either.

[Doug G]

We only have one high school in our district, but our superintendent gets it! I get paid to teach the class, they pay for our first regional registration. Better yet our county office of education gets it as well. We have 7 school districts in the county and FRC is in 4 of them (701, 2085, 3013, 4185). We also have about 20 Vex teams in the county and about 5 FLL teams. The county superintendent is totally on board and would love to see a robotics program in every school district. The trick is always in finding that one teacher or "coach" to take it on.

[Johnnyy]

In the San Francisco Unified School District, our school, Lowell High School, is the only school with a FIRST Team. We hope to work with the district to expand FIRST or other robotics programs to other schools in the district.

[115inventorsam]

The Fremont Union High School District is fully represented in FRC.

115: Monta Vista HS
670: Homestead HS
846: Lynbrook HS
2473: Cupertino HS
3501: Fremont HS

[KevinGoneNuts]

Both of my teams are pretty isolated in terms of teams within a very short distance of us.

675 is the only in Sonoma County, and the nearest team being 2551 in Marin County.

4159 is the only FIRST (not counting FLL) teams in San Francisco. Strange considering it's the 13th largest city in the world! The closest teams to us are again 2551 and 840 of San Mateo. We're trying to get more FIRST Teams next year with, I believe, two more high schools interested in FRC.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

WildStang originally consisted of students from the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows muSTANGs. We are in the largest school district in Illinois outside of Chicago consisting of six schools and over 12,000 students. At one time there were two FRC teams in the district. The two schools on the second team opted to join Battlebots IQ and continue with that program today. WildStang draws students from any school in the district and with local policy, accepts home schooled students in our district for extra curricular activities as well. Currently we have students from four of the schools and home schooled students as well. Our school board is very supportive with many of the members attending WildStang events and the Midwest Regional throughout the year. We also participate in FTC, FLL and VEX. It is unfortunate but we end up turning away students every year as we can only manage about 60 students for FRC. Our program is a graded class in the district thanks to several students making a presentation to the school board many years ago (this is our 17th season). During the fall class this past year, we had 115 students spread across FRC, FTC and VEX.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by robonerd_842

Hello teams!!!
I was just wondering if any school district is totally involved in FIRST?
How many schools does your district have involved in FIRST?
And what does your team plan to do to get your entire school district involved in FIRST?

If you all could just let me know I would be grateful! Thanks!
Have a great week!!!

We have one k-12 school in our district; it's involved!

[mathking]

The Dublin City School District (Dublin, OH and also serving parts of NW Columbus and two surrounding counties) has one FRC team (1014) for its three high schools. We have between 22 and 30 FLL teams each year, representing students from the 4 middle schools and 12 elementary schools. (Though the FLL teams are not all made of exclusively students from one school). The variation depends on interest. I believe there were 26 teams this year.

[dag0620]

Wolcott is a smaller town, with only one high school, one middle school, and 3 elementary schools. With that said we are very fortunate to have FIRST in every school.

Our High School has my FRC Team: MAX1071. This also in addition to being the team for Wolcott High School, we also take any students from surrounding schools who do not have a team available to them.

Our Middle School has an FLL team, the Nitrobots.

We currently have 6 Jr. FLL teams in town, with 4 being directly in each school of our 3 schools , and 2 additional ones that meet at our HS that pull kids from the entire district.

All of our FIRST programs fall under our FRC team, as it is out responsibility to operate these programs.

I'd also add we're very fortunate to also hold 3 different FIRST events during the year in our district. In the fall we hold an Fll qualifier, in the winter a Jr. FLL Festival, and in the spring an FRC Off-Season event.

[1986titans]

The Lee's Summit School District has supported FIRST very well, despite funding cutbacks for nearly everyone in the district. The district has:

Three FRC Teams for three high schools:

• 1730 - Team Driven - Lee's Summit High School
• 1986 - Team Titanium - Lee's Summit West High School
• 1987 - Broncobots - Lee's Summit North High School

2 out of 3 middle schools have FLL teams (and one has two teams).

Technically, only one out of 18 elementary schools in the district participate in FLL according to the region's list (and that school has two teams), but the gifted program in every school builds for whatever the FLL challenge is and there's a scrimmage amongst those teams.

[dodar]

For Brevard County I only know of the schools with FRC teams:

Team 21 ComBBat(Astronaut HS and Titusville HS)

Team 233 The Pink Team(Rockledge HS, Viera HS, Cocoa Beach HS)

Team 386 Voltage(Melbourne HS)

Team 801 Horsepower(Merritt Island HS, Edgewood Jr/Sr HS, Merritt Island Christian, Jefferson Middle School and local home schoolers)

Team 1592 Bionic Tigers(Cocoa HS and Holy Trinity)

Team 2916 Bionic Bears(Bayside HS)

Team 3376 Roboscorps(Satellite HS)

In total there are 14 schools comprised of both public and private from our county competing in FRC.

[Debbie]

Our district has a FIRST program in every school. We have 1 high school with 1 FRC team. Our junior high has 1 FTC and 1 FLL team. We have 4 elementary schools with 7 FLL teams spread out in them. We have 5 JFLL teams in the district as well. We are hoping to expand our JFLL and FLL programs this fall! Our FRC team coaches and sponsors our JFLL teams.

[AJCaliciuri]

Team 1305 (from North Bay, Ontario, Canada) has the full support of our school board. They're also our largest sponsor providing us with $10,000 per year as well as work space in four area high schools. Since there is no FTC is Canada, we fully embrace VEX as our training tool for new members. Each of our four area high schools, as well as sponsoring our team, each host a VEX team, which are supported by Team 1305 and the school board. Many of our area elementary schools are also involved with FLL. Since our school board extends about 300KM (about 200 miles) south into the city of Parry Sound, we are hoping to start a new FRC team there, with the support of the school board. Many of the principals, superintendents, and trustees are really into FIRST.

[Grim Tuesday]

I think it's worth mentioning, when we went to DC, there were quite a few (I don't remember the exact number, but something like 8-10) teams from DC schools which is very impressive.

[sanddrag]

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.