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NASA Announces App Development Challenge

By | August 16th, 2024|Categories: Competitions, Engineering, Information Technology, STEM|Tags: , |

Middle and High School Educators, NASA’s App Development Challenge (ADC) is searching for middle and high school coding teams to create an app about the Artemis II mission, where NASA will be sending humans back to the Moon. Teams, over the course of 10 weeks, will create a video showcasing their application, which utilizes trajectory data [...]

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Coral Reef VEX Robotics

By | July 11th, 2023|Categories: Competitions, Engineering, NAF, NAF Academies, Robotics|Tags: , , |

Congratulations to Coral Reef NAF Academy of Engineering students for achieving the 2023 National SECME VEX ROBOTICS Championship.

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Coral Park Senior High Students Advance to World Robotics Competition 

By | August 12th, 2022|Categories: Competitions, Engineering, Robotics|Tags: , , |

The Ramtech robotics Team won the Rocket City Regional Tournament in Huntsville, Alabama. This is the team's first win at a FIRST® Robotics  regional tournament. The Ramtech student team also earned the Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford, which celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions. Evaluation is based [...]

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Students Excel in Drone Competition at 2022 Youth Fair

By | July 13th, 2022|Categories: Awards, Competitions, Robotics|Tags: , , |

At this year's Youth Fair competitions, we saw a nail-biting race to see which student could use their jarring drone skills to maneuver around an elaborate obstacle course filled with loops, turns, and dives in hopes of getting the fastest time.

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Engineering Students Tour Raytheon Offices

By | July 8th, 2022|Categories: Competitions, Engineering, Robotics|Tags: , , |

FIRST Robotics Team Scores in Orlando Regionals American Senior High FIRST Robotics Teammates made their "rookie" debut in Orlando, Florida with a talented squad of fourteen students. This team became the fifth FIRST Robotics team in Miami-Dade County, and the only team in North Miami. They designed, constructed, and competed an original robot against teams from [...]

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Miami-Dade Entrepreneurship Camp

By | July 19th, 2021|Categories: Business Management, Competitions, Marketing, Sales & Service|Tags: , |

The Miami Dade Entrepreneurship Camp at John F. Kennedy Middle School worked to provide students the opportunity to develop their business plans and pitches with support from teachers and business experts who volunteered their time. In total 96 middle and high school students from John F. Kennedy Middle School, Miami Jackson Senior High School, and Homestead [...]

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Bragging on your teachers! Cybersecurity Patriot Competitions

By | July 6th, 2021|Categories: Competitions, Cybersecurity, Teachers|

Dr. Candi L. Ring, a Cybersecurity Curriculum Developer, FCIT at The University of South Florida, had this to say about the teachers that joined as mentors for the Cyber Patriot Competitions. "Stephanie (Northrop Grumman)- Your knowledge of the history and logistics of the Cyber Patriot program was an asset to the discussion. Marlon (Miami-Dade)- [...]

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Proud of these Tigers!

By | May 16th, 2020|Categories: Competitions, Engineering, Middle School|Tags: , , , |

W. R. Thomas Middle School pre-engineering students receive their 1st place Awards in Drafting with Autodesk Inventor. CONGRATULATIONS!

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Bringing Home the Gold

By | May 10th, 2020|Categories: Career Pathways, Career Technical Student Organizations, Competitions, CTE Initiatives, FBLA, Miami Dade County|Tags: , , , , |

Bringing home the gold is an understatement when we had to rent a u-haul to hold over 100 trophies earned by MDCPS FBLA students at the first ever FloridaFBLA PBL Virtual State Conference. Thank you to state advisor Jody Jones for making this happen in light of Covid-19.

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The Successful 2020 RoboSlam Fest

By | January 29th, 2020|Categories: Competitions, Computer Science & Coding, Miami Dade Youth Fair, Middle School, Robotics, STEAM, STEM|Tags: , , |

The 2020 RoboSlam was held on January 25, 2020 at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds.

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