The director of a new High School program here in San Antonio, Texas has asked me to help locate two robotics teachers. Northeast ISD, one of 17 school districts in San Antonio, is a growing district with many new schools. They recieved a grant to start a school within a school program focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) It is located on the Lee HS campus. They opened the program this year with 6th and 9th grades and will add grades each year until they are a 6th - 12th grade program. They are part of the Texas High School Project. A somewhat unique feature is that each HS student is issued a laptop making the school a paperless environment. Please contact Jennifer Stotts if you are interested and if you are or will be able to become certified to teach in Texas. http://www.neisd.net/stem
PS my son is enrolled as a 9th grader for next year.
Northside ISD - John Jay HS has a science & engineering academy within there school on the far west side.
Northeast ISD - Lee HS has the new STEM academy within their school on the northside just a bit west of Northstar mall.
Northeast ISD - Roosevelt HS has a Design focused academy and a technology focused academy ono their campus. DATA Design And Technology Academy & ETA Engineering Technologies Academy
I beleive that Harlendale ISD has a science academy at Harlendale or McCollum and that would be on the south side.
I can report that Northwest Vista College, my new place of employment at the director of the Robotics Support Center, has been working with Edgewood ISD, Harlendale ISD, Southwest ISD,for two years now with the summer robot camps. We are adding Somerset ISD this year, so there is robotics activity occuring on the south side and my intent is that this translates into more robotics teams down the road.
So this means San Antonio will be getting a couple new FRC or FTC teams this year… That’s great to hear, which high school do you think will be the first to sign up ?
Two former Toltech teacher / mentors took jobs last summer at John Jay HS and Brackenridge HS. Dustin Ford, now at Jay HS, brought his principal and the magnet school director to the Toltech shop back in February. If he can find one or two willing teachers to help lead that team they will be the 1st team from Northside. Jerry Scott has already started the process of getting their contact information into the TIMS system and has the full support of his principal and fellow physics teacher so my money is on Brackenridge. They are in the San Antonio ISD which is where team 653 Noside, Edison high school hails, so this would be the second team for them. It would be stellar if the STEM academy at Lee HS gets going, my son will be a freshman there next year. That would be the 1st team for Northeast ISD.
I have yet to start work on the FTC end of things but a check of the records indicates that a homeschool group had a team this year and then John Paul Steven HS and Floresville HS. They would have competed in Arlington, TX so I can’t verify if they made it to the event with a robot. My target for the FTC tournament is 24 and I don’t know how realistic that is and how many of those will be veteran teams coming to a second or third regional event. FIRST is putting together a pretty decent package for new regional events and rookie grants. No details of yet, only speculation as the affiliate partnership conference is not until late June.
That"s cool, I was just wondering if the southside was finally catching up. I miss it.