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Aerospace students working on laying up fiberglass and epoxy to test the strength of various samples. Part of our composites unit.

Attending the National TSA Competition/ Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Computer Integrated Manufacturing students programming CNC machinery to engrave their initials into a piece of stock.

Aerospace students use flight simulators to practice using navigation and VOR instruments to fly to a destination. I sense future commercial and F-16 pilots.

Students testing and collecting distance data for their designed gliders. Students design their plane using glider software, drawing parts using CAD, and then laser cut all of their parts before assembly.

Hooray! Iowa has been named to the top 10 in computer science education for 2023 by @codeorg. This ranking is a reflection of our state’s recent collaborative efforts to implement high-quality computer science education in all school districts. @iowastem

Principles of Engineering students programming their designed machines to complete assigned tasks. First video is a cable winder.

This years keynote speaker at the PLTW Summit is Leland Melvin. Former NFL player turned astronaut has an amazing story who is passionate about promoting STEM related pathways for students.

Some more successful ideas from our POE students.

POE Friday Mystery challenge. Students had one class period to make a machine that could move three feet with only one person providing the effort.

"Best in the Nation" finalists in the national TSA TEAMS competition in Dallas, TX 2022. Congratulations Aman, Biswash, Jack, and Aviva for doing an awesome job in the technical presentation - Modification of a Roller Coaster Design!

"Best in Nation" finalists TSA TEAMS competition Dallas, TX 2022. Congratulations Krisha, Maya, Jayden, and Jonathan! This team were top ten finalists for TWO categories - Engineering Build and Design as well as Engineering Problem Solving.

"Best in the Nation" TEAMS 2022 national TSA competition Dallas, TX. Congratulations Heidi, Ashley, Anish, and Kyle on winning this event! This follows their "Best in the State" award in March.

Congratulations Jonathan Fan! Winner and 1st place finisher in the National TSA High School Software Development competition. 🏆💻. Jonathan's application used AI to read medical records to summarize and predict patient symptoms.

National Award Ceremony for TSA just getting started. Go West!

West TSA Junior Engineering Technical Society starting TEAMS national competition today in Dallas! Moving on into the second round for Software Development. Currently sitting in the top 20 teams on the Cybersecurity scoreboard. 🤞👍

West High TSA team starts national competition today in Dallas. Already off to a good start with being placed in the top 24 teams for Data Science and Analytics. Computer programming team and Cybersecurity team working hard. Engineering teams start soon🤞

To gauge whether you’re likely to earn a 4 or 5 on this year’s AP CSA exam, look at free-response question 4 (2D Array): students earning 5s are generally able to earn 7 (or more) of these 9 points; students earning 4s able to earn 5+ points on it. spr.ly/6010zg7Ek

In the free-response section, AP Computer Science A students triumphed over the first question (Methods and Control Structures); a whopping 35% earned all 9 points possible on it.