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
At the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC )Robotics New Orleans Area Qualifier Event, St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s robotics teams qualified for the regional competition to be held at University of New Orleans on March 4, 2017. “In a world full of ordinary women, one group of spectacular ladies left the judges with nothing to wonder… Read More
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE EVENT PHOTO GALLERY St. Mary’s Dominican High School hosted a FIRST Lego League (FLL) Qualifier Competition on Saturday, November 19th with 14 participating teams from the New Orleans area. Teams were judged on their Project, Team Work Ability, Robot Design and on the missions their robot completed. Serving as judges were Dominican faculty… Read More
St. Mary’s Dominican High School FTC Robotics Team welcomed Dow Chemical representatives Machine and Pump Shop Technologist Mr. Jeremy Naquin and Reliability Leader Mrs. Shari Schexnayder (center), during a visit to Dominican’s Robotics Laboratory. Thanks to a grant from Dow Chemical, the school purchased for robotics a new tool storage unit and robot. A vice,… Read More