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?)

[Richard Wallace]

I noticed that Davidson Magnet School in Augusta, GA made the list (84). Davidson is a fine arts magnet. It was the only school in Georgia to make the list.

My sister is a Davidson graduate. Like all Davidson students she spent most of her extracurricular time practicing performing arts (dance, in her case) -- but like many others she went on to earn a science degree (U. of Georgia) and has pursued a technical career. My mother was an English teacher at Davidson for many years.

I am dismayed to see that Davidson does not have an FRC team. Other fine arts magnets schools (1939, for example) have FRC teams.

Is anyone working to develop new FRC teams in the Augusta (Central Savannah River) area?

[David Brinza]

La Cañada HS (#95), in La Cañada-Flintridge, CA has a rookie team (FRC2429) supported by JPL.

[Jon236]

So, the question I have is what factor (s) is/are key in those schools where a FRC team cannot get traction. Students (lack of interest?), teachers , admin or school board support lacking.

[Carol]

The Charter School of Wilmington (Delaware), #41, doesn't have it's own team but 14 or so of it's students are on MOE 365. They do have three FTC teams.

[Bharat Nain]

The amazing part is when some of these schools have their name up there because of a FIRST team - even if they are not listed here and they are somewhere in the top 1000. Another amazing part is when the school is doing horrible but the demographics of the FIRST team is completely opposite (i.e. amazing).

[Joe Ross]

21. California Academy Of Mathematics And Science is team 687