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  • Bayside High School
  • Bayside, NY
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Students range from freshmen to seniors. The team originally started with students from the computer science program. Soon students from other programs such as the engineering program joined the team. The team was even able to recruit students from the physics class. None of the students had any prior experience with US FIRST FTC. There was a huge learning curve this past year as students learned about the competition as well as designing, building and programming a robot. Perseverance describes the team best. There were a lot of demands, obstacle and failures the students had to overcome. To their credit, they earned the 2013-2014 New York City and Long Island QT Finalist Alliance held on Mar 2, 2014. Our high school consists of over 3000 students. The school is in the process of becoming a full Career and Technical Education school with two of its tracks being computer programming and engineering.

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Students range from freshmen to seniors. The team originally started with students from the computer science program. Soon students from other programs such as the engineering program joined the team. The team was even able to recruit students from the physics class. None of the students had any prior experience with US FIRST FTC. There was a huge learning curve this past year as students learned about the competition as well as designing, building and programming a robot. Perseverance describes the team best. There were a lot of demands, obstacle and failures the students had to overcome. To their credit, they earned the 2013-2014 New York City and Long Island QT Finalist Alliance held on Mar 2, 2014. Our high school consists of over 3000 students. The school is in the process of becoming a full Career and Technical Education school with two of its tracks being computer programming and engineering.

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