On April 20-23, 2016, 2016 VEX Worlds took place at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. A total of 1,017 teams from 31 different countries participated at the 2016 VEX World Championships. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this was the world’s largest robotics event ever held.

Mustang Robotics Team 507B from Otay Ranch High School represented SUHSD.

After three days of intense competition, team 507B placed 23rd in their division placing them in the top 100 VEX high school teams in the world! They also won a tablet and a phone on a side video contest competition. GREAT JOB MUSTANG ROBOTICS!

Team members: Justin Bellarmino, Nicolas Ma, Annika Manlutac, Glenn Sivila, Brian Thai, and Tatsuya Vlaming. *Special shout-out to Annika for helping throughout the event a team from Syria*

Principal: Jose Brosz Coach Advisers: Hayley Salazar & Chad Pearson

2016 SCIENCE FESTIVAL      Chula Vista Middle School

On May 3-4, 2016, Chula Vista Middle School’s Science Department hosted its annual SCIENCE FESTIVAL showcasing students innovation and creativity through Inventions. A journey into the world of science and engineering.

Congratulations to all participating students, parents, Ms. Tina Tom, Mr. Ebber Nava, and Ms. Gina Saclauso for a job well done!

Principal: Julissa Gracias

Got Inventions! Cavaliers Do!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL, EASTLAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND CASTLE PARK HIGH SCHOOL

The San Diego Mayor’s Cyber Cup Finals took place on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at UCSD Supercomputer Center. SUHSD had three teams participating; Castle Park High School, Eastlake High School, and Eastlake Middle School.

The competition was full of surprises for all participants. At the end of the event, Castle Park High School took home 10th place, Eastlake Middle School 9th, and Eastlake High School 5th. A total of 125 teams representing 71 different schools competed at this year’s San Diego Mayor’s Cyber Cup. A very respectful accomplishment for Sweetwater Union High School District.

During the award banquet, each of our teams was awarded $700 for making it to the finals and the students and teachers were given the opportunity to attend a Cyber Bootcamp this summer for free! Watch a video that features the competition HERE.

Eastlake High School 

Principal: Maria E. Lizarraga Cyber Security Team Advisor: Chandra Goodnough Mentor: Nelson Mossini

Eastlake Middle School

Principal: Juan Ulloa Cyber Security Team Advisor: Tara Taylor

Castle Park High School

Principal: Vicky Mitrovich Cyber Security Team Advisor: Daniel Pearson  Mentor: Preston Hathaway (SAIC)

Congratulations to each SUHSD student participant, teacher advisers, and mentors! 

GO sweetCYBER!!!

Computer security, also known as Cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and to the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

Listening to guidelines

Explaning details of the competition

Competition Time!

Eastlake High School Cyber Team

“https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1dQf0tajTntEZkQ1OaKy58jy4ozT6torE&export=download”
Hovercraft Challenge

Last Saturday, April 30, 2016,  Chula Vista High School’s Physics Club Spartan Physics Force (SPF) competed in a county wide competition organized by Northrop Grumman at one of their facilities against other schools from around the county.

This year’s challenge was to build a Hover Craft that could accelerate, maneuver through an obstacle course with payload carrying. The competition was scored on 3 aspects; a preliminary design report (PDR), a presentation, and obstacle course performance.

This was SPFs 5th time competing in the challenge. In past years, they have taken three 2nd place finishes and one 3rd place finish. This time around, SPF  finally took the top spot FIRST PLACE! First place receives a $1,250 for their club or program.

The team consisted of 7 committed students, 2 teachers and a mentor engineer from Northrop Grumman.

Students: Angel Delgado, Arlette Flores, Omar Garcia, Diego Amador, Andres Perez, Ashely Curtis, and Benny De La Rosa.

Teachers: Steve Streifer and Patrick Mallory

Mentor Engineer: Yesse Tanner (yes, that is correct, Mr. Scott Tanner’s daughter -former ASB Dean at CVHS and a graduate of Tom Dunn’s Physics Program at Bonita Vista HS.)

CONGRATULATIONS TO SPARTAN PHYSICS FORCE (SPF) STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND MENTOR.

GO SPARTANS!!!

Hovercraft is a vehicle or craft that travels over land or water on a cushion of air provided by a downward blast.

Congratulations to Ms. Johal  and Principal Thomas Winters and their students that participated last Saturday, April 16 at the San Diego Regional Seaperch -underwater- Robotics competition at Grossmont College.

Good Job Vikings!!!

Antoine Serrano was just awarded a full ride for the rigorous Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Program (Cost: $6300). He is an extremely hard-working student who has a true passion for learning. He currently is the Robotics Club president at Sweetwater High School, and a nominee for the AVID 11th Grade Lamp of Learning Scholarship (worth $20,000). This will be his 3rd summer program. In 9th grade he participated in the Upward Bound Summer Bridge program; last year he was given a full-ride to attend the UCSD COSMOS Program and now, STANFORD!

Go Devils!!!

On Thursday, April 7th, 2016, Montgomery High School’ STEM CLUB hosted its 2nd Annual “Family STEM Night“.  The event was full of fun-filled interactive STEM activities; AP Chem-Ice Cream, Wind tunnel, 3D Printing, Non-Newtonian Slime, Baggie Reactions, Reptile Petting Zoo, Make your Own Lava Lamp, Science of Dry Ice, FIRST & VEX Robotics, among others.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MONTGOMERY STEM CLUB MEMBERS, MS. PETERSEN -Club Adviser-ALL VOLUNTEERS, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION TEAM FOR HAVING A SUCCESSFUL EVENT

Congratulations TitanBOT!!!

This past weekend (March 30-April 2, 2016) Eastlake High School’s TitanBOT FRC robotics team #2543 participated in Las Vegas FIRST Robotics Regional competition. After qualification matches their alliance record was 5-6-0, which masked a strong individual performance.  The TitanBot robot ranked eighth in offensive power out of the 49 teams that competed.  This performance led to TitanBOT being the ninth team selected during the alliance selection process.  Although their #8 seeded playoff alliance scored well in the quarterfinals, it was not enough to overcome the #1 seeded alliance, the eventual tournament champion.

Additionally, Zachary Paule -TitanBOT safety captain, was recognized as the Safety Star of the Day on Saturday for his efforts of working with the tournament safety advisors to improve the team’s safety training and emergency response plan and for promoting an elevated safety posture during the competition.

CONGRATULATIONS to all TitanBOT students, volunteers, and parents. Thank you Mr. Foust & Mr. Okano (team advisers) for your dedication and countless hours working with our students.

March 14, 2016 sweetSTEAM newsletter