robotics

  • Robotics club gears up for competition

    Robotics club gears up for competition

    Machinery, physics, coding, and a team here at NPHS all work together to create high functioning robots. Robotics club meets every day after school and some Saturdays, preparing and building an advanced robot for their big competition every year. The team receives a challenge each January at the end of winter break from the…

  • Robotics Club Suffering from Low Funding

    There is a painfully obvious disparity between some of the school robotics teams in our county in terms quality of education, funding and its prevalence in schools. Robotics is categorized as a club, rather than a team, by the school, which is contrary to what active members think. The most present members of the…

  • Robotics club suffers from low funding

    There is a painfully obvious disparity between some of the school robotics teams in our county in terms quality of education, funding and its prevalence in schools. Robotics is categorized as a club, rather than a team, by the school, which is contrary to what active members think. The most present members of the…

  • DATA brings technology to core classes

    3D printing, robotics and coding: the Digital Arts and Technology Academy (DATA) has it all! Students enrolled in this “school-within-a-school” have access to a variety of technology-based resources and opportunities. The application process for the DATA academy begins freshman year, when students must submit an essay about themselves and why they feel they would…

  • Friday Brief: April 1, 2016

    Boys’ Baseball Panthers played in the Bishop Gorman Desert Classic this week in Las Vegas, NV and won 4-0 in their first game versus Desert Hills (UT) on Wednesday, March 30. They further went on to win games against Tucson (AZ) and Galena (NV) in their pool on Thursday and Friday, and will advance…

  • Building up to the state competition: Robotics Team qualifies for next level of VEX

    After an increase in membership and learning opportunities, the robotics team competed in and won a VEX Robotics Competition on Dec. 22, 2015. These competitions require students to use science, technology, engineering, and math in order to build a robot that will complete a designated task. This year, the team has grown in number…