When an anonymous donor gifted St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s Robotics team with 100 school backpacks, with the request to give them to a group of students that would benefit from them, the team did not need to look far. “Building robots for regional and state tournaments is part of what we do,” noted Robotics… Read More

St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s two robotics teams took awards at the February 29th FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) regional championship held at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. The event drew 19 teams from the region. The Dominican Valkyries won 1st Place Motivate Award and 3rd place Control Award. They also were selected as an Alliance… Read More

  St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s two robotics teams took wins at the February 1st FTC qualifier competition. It marked the first time both teams were selected to be part of the same alliance going into the final rounds of robot play. They won the overall robot game play. The Valkyries ranked 7th and Team… Read More

Over the Thanksgiving break, Dominican hosted the First Lego League (FLL) Robotics competition. It marked the fifth time Dominican has been a host for the event that draws students from grammar schools in the Greater New Orleans areas. At this year’s event, 130 students who represented 13 schools competed. A Toast of Praise to the… Read More

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