Good Luck to AVHS Knights of the Valley at Competition

Best of luck to the AVHS Knights of the Valley FIRST Robotics team at their upcoming regional competition April 7-9.  They will compete with 60 other teams at Mariucci Arena.  

Admission is free!  Stop down and cheer on our Knights! 

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Teachers from AVHS, VMSS and Cedar Park working with Stratasys to teach others how to effectively integrate 3D printer technology into education. 

HOW 3D PRINTING INSPIRES 8TH GRADERS TO EXPLORE STEM CAREERS.  View Article

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AVHS Iron Maidens FTC teams advance to World Championship Competition

The Apple Valley High School FIRST Tech Challenge team - Iron Maidens competed at the North Super Regional Competition late in March and won a series of awards.  

They were the first place winner of the Connect Award.  This award honors the outreach a team has completed to fulfill the mission for the FIRST program.  This mission of FIRST is to promote STEM in order to inspire more young people to pursue STEM careers. 

This Connect Award qualifies the Iron Maidens to compete at the FIRST World Championships later in St. Louis later in April!

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Help the Iron Maidens get to St. Louis - Go Fund Me site

E3 STEM Mentor Kickoff Event

Adult professional volunteer mentors from the community met the students they are partnered with for the E3 STEM mentor program last week at this kickoff event.  

These mentors will connect with their students once a month for a year to help guide them through their career exploration efforts.  Thank you to all of these wonderful volunteers!  We have no doubt you will help change the lives of these young people. 

E3 STEM is a grant program funded by the Department of Labor through a program called Youth Career Connect.

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E3 STEM Social Media Workshop #1 - Social Media Footprint.

ISD 196 Attorney Jill Coyle talking with E3 STEM students about the importance of social media in the employment process.  Students learned how important it is to consider their social media footprint as it relates to employment.  

E3 STEM is a grant funded by a Department of Labor program called Youth CareerConnect.  

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Math in Civics? An Example of STEM For All at AVHS

Social Studies teacher Alex Ross working with freshman in Civics to organize election data graphically 

and then learning to critically analyze the information to make informed decisions.  

STEM For ALL in action at AVHS!

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E3 STEM/Knights Of The Valley Outreach Event

Below is an outline for a really unique 

outreach effort for the 

AVHS FIRST Robotics team - Knights Of The Valley. 

This is an E3 STEM & FIRST Robotics outreach effort as it is being led by E3 STEM students on the team.

Squire Outreach Program

What: The Apple Valley High School FIRST Robotics team will recruit elementary school students to act as scouts for their team at their upcoming regional competition being held in Mariucci Arena on the U of M camp April 7-9. The Knights would welcome these students on to their team as squire scouts. The squires would help the Knights scout other teams by pit and match scouting. Members of the Knights will help their young squires to perform these duties. Squire = a young nobleman acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself/herself.

Who: Students at Southview who work with Ms. Mads0n in the Gifted & Talented program. Apple Valley High School Knights Of The Valley FIRST Robotics team.

When: The Squires would travel to the competition on the morning of Friday, April 8 to support their Knights Of The Valley by match scouting, pit scouting and cheering on their team. The Southview Squires would attend the competition from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm on April 8.

Why: The Knights believe they are fulfilling the ultimate Mission of FIRST by inspiring more young people to become excited about STEM fields through this program. The Knights will also learn a number of valuable lessons by having to prepare their squires to perform these scouting duties and leading them at the competition.
How:

• ●  Members of the Knights will create a pit & match scouting forms and an information collection system that they will have their squires use at the competition.
  
• ●  The Knight will create some kind of shirt or other items that will identify the Southview students as squire members of their team when they are at the tournament.
  
• ●  They will meet with Ms. Madson from Southview to review these to ensure the system is clear and usable for her students.
  
• ●  Members of the Knights of The Valley will visit Southview  to train their squires to perform these duties.
  
• ○  The Knight will provide an complete overview of the 2016 competition including an explanation of the game, key strategies and basic rules.
  
• ○  They will then share the scouting documents and have the students perform a mock pit scouting using the Knights and their robot as their target team.
  
• ○  The squires will match scout a match or two on video from an FRC regional tournament that has already taken place. 
  

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