At the Cable/Tech Expo 2019 in New Orleans, Dominican’s Robotics team members and coaches met businessman and inventor Dean Kamen who is founder of FIRST® Robotics, the teams’ robotics platform. They also did a demonstration and talked with Kamen who asked each student their goals for college. Dominican was the only all-girls school among the… Read More
At the First Tech Challenge Competition held at Destrehan High School on December 1st, the Dominican Robotics Teams took the following wins: Team 11526 won first place in the Innovate Award and qualified for the State Competition. Team 9637 won second in Design, third in Innovate, second in Think and first place for the Inspire… Read More
St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s robotics team, Domini-Bots, placed 8th out of 14 teams in the robot challenge matches at the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) competition hosted at Dominican. The Domini-Bots also won the Project Award that advanced them to the state FLL Competition on December 15 at Jesuit High School. Students on St. Mary’s… Read More
At the February 3 Louisiana FIRST® Technical Challenge (FTC) Regional Championship held at University of New Orleans, St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s two robotics teams competed. The Dominican Indiana Janes were a finalist for the Think Award. The Dominican Valkyries won the Motivate Award and placed 8th for the Alliance Section. They were selected by… Read More
Congratulations to the Robotics Teams that brought home wins from the State Qualifier competition! FTC# 11526 – The Dominican Valkyries, were a finalist for the Motivate Award. FTC Team # 9637 – The Dominican Indiana Janes, were finalists for the Connect Award, the Think Award, and the Innovate Award. They won the Motivate Award and… Read More
Dominican’s Robotics team helped ignite interest in robotics and engineering at the first annual Core Element Community STEM Fest with the Saints and Pelicans. Core Element hosted the Community STEM FEST at the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans facilities on Airline Drive. The goal of the STEM Fest is to ignite curiosity and interest of… Read More
The St. Mary’s Dominican Robotics team hosted on campus the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) kick-off where students from several New Orleans area schools learned about the different components of the FLL competition. This included programing their EV3 robot, practicing teamwork skills and learning the important points of the Project. The teams are looking forward to their… Read More
At the recent Regional FTC Robotics Competition, Dominican’s two robotics teams won awards in competition that drew 19 teams from across the state. Dominican was one of two all-girl teams at the regionals held March 4 at University of New Orleans Human Performance Center. Dream Machine won First Place for the Motivate Award and Third… Read More