DCI Robotics

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Are all of these students taking the SAT? I teach at a very diverse school division in the suburbs and we find that the lowest performing groups do not take the SAT.

This is a very interesting point. Does anyone know the answer?

I'm sure 100% of Banneker students have to take the SAT.

It’s common knowledge that only kids looking at college take the SAT so at majority of schools in general there is a certain percentage that don’t take it.

Selective schools are different. They have weeded out the lowest and lower performers already and most of these students are planning on going to college so you will have a much higher percentage of kids taking SAT.

There is no data that I know of that tells you percentages.

But I wouldn’t get stick on those numbers. The point is the kids taking the SAT are college bound and it is a fair comparison of schools.

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The previous post mentioned DCI SAT scores as if the special populations suggested DCi was doing particularly well. Also, DCI has 18% at risk. Latin High school has 14%.

What do you have against at risk, SPED or ELL? You don’t think that these groups can’t improve to do well and also aim to go to college?

Of course they do and DCI does amazingly well with the work and heavy lifting especially in regards to SPED. You can’t say that for many other schools.

Our neighbors had a kid with an IEP at DCI that left the school because the SPED services were so bad. They didn’t have consistent staffing and the general education teachers weren’t following the accommodations in the IEP. There doesn’t seem like a lot of data related to success or lack of for this student population.

It’s a small enough world that we might know the same person… we’re happy with DCI. We’d never leave. It’s great for our kid. We know some people who sent their kids to WIS because IEP support, for them, was dire at DCI.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Banneker and DCI have around the same average SAT score, which is about 1150-1160.

Banneker has significantly higher proficiency levels in English and math than both DCI and Latin, and Latin is much stronger in English than DCI (not surprisingly, since some of DCI's classes are taught in a foreign language).

CAPE 4+

Banneker

Math (geometry): 53.2
English II: 90.3

Latin

Math (geometry): 14.1
English II: 74.7

DCI

Math (geometry): <1% [Algebra I: 33.2]
English II: 51.1

Overall, looking at how many kids are grade-level and above in English and math, DCI is well below both Banneker and Latin.

High school CAPE scores have been discussed so many times on here. They are not accurate especially when it comes to math. If a school has a very advance math track, many kids are not taking CAPE at all so the numbers are very misleading. Only the bottom kids in math are left taking CAPE.

So DCI offers AP Cal in 10th grade as a class. I don’t think Banneker or Latin offers that advance of a math track, In addition, the school has multiple classes of the level below that which would get you to AP Cal in 11th. So there are some kids in 10th, lots of kids in 11th, and even more kids in 12th. not taking CAPE at all. Also IB math is integrated. It is not compartmentalized like traditional schools. So they might cover Algebra some topics one year but not all and then rest next year. It just is not a similar comparison. As to ELA, yes kids are getting less time in ELA but at the benefit of being proficient in another language. So how do you account for this added benefit?

Assessing high schools, you should look at SAT scores and AP scores, not CAPE at all. Those are the parameters if your college bound kid is ready for the next higher level playing field of college. What this shows is that the kids heading to college at DCI are just as prepared as Banneker and Latin in math and ELA and with the benefit of knowing another languages.

Above is the reason why the scores look worst for DCI and yet they come out just as similar with SAT. It’s not like overnight these kids got a lot smarter or caught up. How do you account for such big discrepancies and yet SAT scores are similar? It is because how CAPE is measured is not accurate or representative of the whole student body at the high school level.

It wouldn’t take a lot of selection bias for the distance in the DCI SAT score relative to Banneker to diverge from the relative distance between CAPE scores at the two schools

What does this word salad mean? What is your point?

Given the school size, a few low performing kids opting out of SAT’s at DCI would decrease the gap between DCI and Banneker. Conversely, those kids taking the CAPE (and high performing kids opting out) would increase the gap.

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Short of an actual synthetic control design or something, the closest apples to apples comparison between DCI and Banneker would be SAT scores, which even then a lot of DCI kids don’t take because of the IB thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Short of an actual synthetic control design or something, the closest apples to apples comparison between DCI and Banneker would be SAT scores, which even then a lot of DCI kids don’t take because of the IB thing.

Not SAT, AP.

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Anonymous wrote:Short of an actual synthetic control design or something, the closest apples to apples comparison between DCI and Banneker would be SAT scores, which even then a lot of DCI kids don’t take because of the IB thing.

Not SAT, AP.

Well if you want to argue comparing AP, look at percentages of kids who do well enough on IB exam to get college credit. That would be equivalent to 4 or 5 on AP exam. Number is 68% which is really high.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Are all of these students taking the SAT? I teach at a very diverse school division in the suburbs and we find that the lowest performing groups do not take the SAT.

This is a very interesting point. Does anyone know the answer?

I'm sure 100% of Banneker students have to take the SAT.

It’s common knowledge that only kids looking at college take the SAT so at majority of schools in general there is a certain percentage that don’t take it.

Selective schools are different. They have weeded out the lowest and lower performers already and most of these students are planning on going to college so you will have a much higher percentage of kids taking SAT.

There is no data that I know of that tells you percentages.

But I wouldn’t get stick on those numbers. The point is the kids taking the SAT are college bound and it is a fair comparison of schools.

Typo stuck not stick

The previous post mentioned DCI SAT scores as if the special populations suggested DCi was doing particularly well. Also, DCI has 18% at risk. Latin High school has 14%.

What do you have against at risk, SPED or ELL? You don’t think that these groups can’t improve to do well and also aim to go to college?

Of course they do and DCI does amazingly well with the work and heavy lifting especially in regards to SPED. You can’t say that for many other schools.

Our neighbors had a kid with an IEP at DCI that left the school because the SPED services were so bad. They didn’t have consistent staffing and the general education teachers weren’t following the accommodations in the IEP. There doesn’t seem like a lot of data related to success or lack of for this student population.

It’s a small enough world that we might know the same person… we’re happy with DCI. We’d never leave. It’s great for our kid. We know some people who sent their kids to WIS because IEP support, for them, was dire at DCI.

+1. We are at a feeder and will not send our kid with an IEP after talking to a bunch of families. PP who says DCI does well with SPED has no clue what they are talking about. We are lucky to have a solid plan B and would consider sending younger siblings with no leaning issues.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Banneker and DCI have around the same average SAT score, which is about 1150-1160.

Banneker has significantly higher proficiency levels in English and math than both DCI and Latin, and Latin is much stronger in English than DCI (not surprisingly, since some of DCI's classes are taught in a foreign language).

CAPE 4+

Banneker

Math (geometry): 53.2
English II: 90.3

Latin

Math (geometry): 14.1
English II: 74.7

DCI

Math (geometry): <1% [Algebra I: 33.2]
English II: 51.1

Overall, looking at how many kids are grade-level and above in English and math, DCI is well below both Banneker and Latin.

High school CAPE scores have been discussed so many times on here. They are not accurate especially when it comes to math. If a school has a very advance math track, many kids are not taking CAPE at all so the numbers are very misleading. Only the bottom kids in math are left taking CAPE.

So DCI offers AP Cal in 10th grade as a class. I don’t think Banneker or Latin offers that advance of a math track, In addition, the school has multiple classes of the level below that which would get you to AP Cal in 11th. So there are some kids in 10th, lots of kids in 11th, and even more kids in 12th. not taking CAPE at all. Also IB math is integrated. It is not compartmentalized like traditional schools. So they might cover Algebra some topics one year but not all and then rest next year. It just is not a similar comparison. As to ELA, yes kids are getting less time in ELA but at the benefit of being proficient in another language. So how do you account for this added benefit?

Assessing high schools, you should look at SAT scores and AP scores, not CAPE at all. Those are the parameters if your college bound kid is ready for the next higher level playing field of college. What this shows is that the kids heading to college at DCI are just as prepared as Banneker and Latin in math and ELA and with the benefit of knowing another languages.

Above is the reason why the scores look worst for DCI and yet they come out just as similar with SAT. It’s not like overnight these kids got a lot smarter or caught up. How do you account for such big discrepancies and yet SAT scores are similar? It is because how CAPE is measured is not accurate or representative of the whole student body at the high school level.

It wouldn’t take a lot of selection bias for the distance in the DCI SAT score relative to Banneker to diverge from the relative distance between CAPE scores at the two schools

What does this word salad mean? What is your point?

Given the school size, a few low performing kids opting out of SAT’s at DCI would decrease the gap between DCI and Banneker. Conversely, those kids taking the CAPE (and high performing kids opting out) would increase the gap.

But all low performing kids have basically opted out of the Banneker SAT scores so what exactly is the point here?

I find it incredibly funny that DCI has scores as good as Banneker, a selective school, and posters here actually saying that it’s not fair or comparable.

I would argue that it is not fair and more advantageous on Banneker side since they don’t have the lowest performing kids.

Alao, how can you be sure that some low performing kids are not taking the SAT at DCI and if these kids did not, one could argue that their average be even higher. Just because all the kids don’t have to take the SAT does not exclude all lower performing kids.

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FWIW, the kids taking AP Cal in 10th grade are super smart and superstars.

The school really gatekeeps entrance to this class, and it is difficult to get in. This is a good thing because the class can move faster and more in depth.

We know the parent of one of the 10th graders currently in the class. She got into Walls and declined.

She is not the only one. This parent knew of 3 other kids who declined and we know of 1 other kid, a sibling to one of my kid’s friend.

Anecdotal but that is 5 high performing kids who not only got into Walls but declined Walls. I haven’t looked into detail yet the high school curriculum to comment but these families must be confident that high school at DCI can meet their kid’s needs.

Above is a win win for all IMO. DCI is retaining their higher performing kids which leaves the Walls spots open for other kids in the city who might not have a good high school option.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Are all of these students taking the SAT? I teach at a very diverse school division in the suburbs and we find that the lowest performing groups do not take the SAT.

This is a very interesting point. Does anyone know the answer?

I'm sure 100% of Banneker students have to take the SAT.

It’s common knowledge that only kids looking at college take the SAT so at majority of schools in general there is a certain percentage that don’t take it.

Selective schools are different. They have weeded out the lowest and lower performers already and most of these students are planning on going to college so you will have a much higher percentage of kids taking SAT.

There is no data that I know of that tells you percentages.

But I wouldn’t get stick on those numbers. The point is the kids taking the SAT are college bound and it is a fair comparison of schools.

Typo stuck not stick

The previous post mentioned DCI SAT scores as if the special populations suggested DCi was doing particularly well. Also, DCI has 18% at risk. Latin High school has 14%.

What do you have against at risk, SPED or ELL? You don’t think that these groups can’t improve to do well and also aim to go to college?

Of course they do and DCI does amazingly well with the work and heavy lifting especially in regards to SPED. You can’t say that for many other schools.

Our neighbors had a kid with an IEP at DCI that left the school because the SPED services were so bad. They didn’t have consistent staffing and the general education teachers weren’t following the accommodations in the IEP. There doesn’t seem like a lot of data related to success or lack of for this student population.

It’s a small enough world that we might know the same person… we’re happy with DCI. We’d never leave. It’s great for our kid. We know some people who sent their kids to WIS because IEP support, for them, was dire at DCI.

WIS is a private school with no IEPs or special ed teachers at all, so if what they needed was more IEP support, WIS is a nonsensical choice.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Are all of these students taking the SAT? I teach at a very diverse school division in the suburbs and we find that the lowest performing groups do not take the SAT.

This is a very interesting point. Does anyone know the answer?

I'm sure 100% of Banneker students have to take the SAT.

It’s common knowledge that only kids looking at college take the SAT so at majority of schools in general there is a certain percentage that don’t take it.

Selective schools are different. They have weeded out the lowest and lower performers already and most of these students are planning on going to college so you will have a much higher percentage of kids taking SAT.

There is no data that I know of that tells you percentages.

But I wouldn’t get stick on those numbers. The point is the kids taking the SAT are college bound and it is a fair comparison of schools.

Typo stuck not stick

The previous post mentioned DCI SAT scores as if the special populations suggested DCi was doing particularly well. Also, DCI has 18% at risk. Latin High school has 14%.

What do you have against at risk, SPED or ELL? You don’t think that these groups can’t improve to do well and also aim to go to college?

Of course they do and DCI does amazingly well with the work and heavy lifting especially in regards to SPED. You can’t say that for many other schools.

Our neighbors had a kid with an IEP at DCI that left the school because the SPED services were so bad. They didn’t have consistent staffing and the general education teachers weren’t following the accommodations in the IEP. There doesn’t seem like a lot of data related to success or lack of for this student population.

It’s a small enough world that we might know the same person… we’re happy with DCI. We’d never leave. It’s great for our kid. We know some people who sent their kids to WIS because IEP support, for them, was dire at DCI.

WIS is a private school with no IEPs or special ed teachers at all, so if what they needed was more IEP support, WIS is a nonsensical choice.

Yeah, there is something not right with this. WIS by their own admission do not do SPED- they have selective admissions and do not have support for IEPs. I know nothing about DCI SPED but I know no less than 2 families who have been told by WIS admin that the school cannot accommodate kids with high needs learning support.

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Anonymous wrote:We met some of the DCI students through the Capitol City Robotics program last year (a terrific program, btw!). My son is in elementary school and most of the high schools counselors for the program were from DCI and were truly an impressive bunch. The head of capitol city robotics has spoken very highly of DCI's program.

DCI appears to have threaded a terrific needle by having very advanced programming for some kids while still providing strong support for kids who need it.

How are you measuring this?

NP. This was discussed on another thread. DCI uses standardized test scores as one of the criteria for class placement in addition to grades and teacher’s recommendations so kids 3 or 4 levels apart are not in the same class. In addition, lowest bottom kids get extra support classes everyday instead of an elective.

If you look at SAT averages, DCI is around 1200 which is higher than Banneker which is a test in school and similar to Latin. Yet DCI has significantly more at risk, significantly more SPED, and significantly more ELL than Latin. This tells you that they are doing well with kids on both ends of the spectrum, high and low.

Are all of these students taking the SAT? I teach at a very diverse school division in the suburbs and we find that the lowest performing groups do not take the SAT.

This is a very interesting point. Does anyone know the answer?

I'm sure 100% of Banneker students have to take the SAT.

It’s common knowledge that only kids looking at college take the SAT so at majority of schools in general there is a certain percentage that don’t take it.

Selective schools are different. They have weeded out the lowest and lower performers already and most of these students are planning on going to college so you will have a much higher percentage of kids taking SAT.

There is no data that I know of that tells you percentages.

But I wouldn’t get stick on those numbers. The point is the kids taking the SAT are college bound and it is a fair comparison of schools.

Typo stuck not stick

The previous post mentioned DCI SAT scores as if the special populations suggested DCi was doing particularly well. Also, DCI has 18% at risk. Latin High school has 14%.

What do you have against at risk, SPED or ELL? You don’t think that these groups can’t improve to do well and also aim to go to college?

Of course they do and DCI does amazingly well with the work and heavy lifting especially in regards to SPED. You can’t say that for many other schools.

Our neighbors had a kid with an IEP at DCI that left the school because the SPED services were so bad. They didn’t have consistent staffing and the general education teachers weren’t following the accommodations in the IEP. There doesn’t seem like a lot of data related to success or lack of for this student population.

It’s a small enough world that we might know the same person… we’re happy with DCI. We’d never leave. It’s great for our kid. We know some people who sent their kids to WIS because IEP support, for them, was dire at DCI.

+1. We are at a feeder and will not send our kid with an IEP after talking to a bunch of families. PP who says DCI does well with SPED has no clue what they are talking about. We are lucky to have a solid plan B and would consider sending younger siblings with no leaning issues.

It probably depends on what the IEP is for. DCI does better with some situations than other.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is into STEM and/or robotics, consider putting DCI on your lottery list for middle school. I realize it is hard to get into if not from a feeder, but it’s not impossible. There are some spots and someone wins the lottery.

I was at the one of the 2 area FTC robotics qualifier yesterday. DCI robotics team came in 1st place out of 24 teams and they are advancing to regionals. They totally dominated the day, ranking 1st in every round and finished with about 30%, yes 30%, more points than the 2nd place team and those under that. Announcements were actually made about how the team was doing so well in general in a competition. It was amazing to see how fast, accurate, and precise their robot was in scoring points. The school has an amazing robotics club with tremendous teacher running it. They also have a strong math and science department also.

Lots of schools were there competing including Sidwell friends, Deal, Latin, and from the burbs with Bethesda, Mclean, etc…. It was great to see a DC public/charter school do well against private and suburban peers.

Lastly, I was talking to a parent there and the seniors are doing great with college admissions and she knew kids who will be going to Stanford (2), Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia in the fall These were all different kids and not the same kid.

I’m not here to debate schools but if you have a STEM kid, you should consider DCI.

I love DCI but the kids going to Stanford and Dartmouth do the Capitol City Robotics program which does much better than the DCI teams.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is into STEM and/or robotics, consider putting DCI on your lottery list for middle school. I realize it is hard to get into if not from a feeder, but it’s not impossible. There are some spots and someone wins the lottery.

I was at the one of the 2 area FTC robotics qualifier yesterday. DCI robotics team came in 1st place out of 24 teams and they are advancing to regionals. They totally dominated the day, ranking 1st in every round and finished with about 30%, yes 30%, more points than the 2nd place team and those under that. Announcements were actually made about how the team was doing so well in general in a competition. It was amazing to see how fast, accurate, and precise their robot was in scoring points. The school has an amazing robotics club with tremendous teacher running it. They also have a strong math and science department also.

Lots of schools were there competing including Sidwell friends, Deal, Latin, and from the burbs with Bethesda, Mclean, etc…. It was great to see a DC public/charter school do well against private and suburban peers.

Lastly, I was talking to a parent there and the seniors are doing great with college admissions and she knew kids who will be going to Stanford (2), Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia in the fall These were all different kids and not the same kid.

I’m not here to debate schools but if you have a STEM kid, you should consider DCI.

I love DCI but the kids going to Stanford and Dartmouth do the Capitol City Robotics program which does much better than the DCI teams.

Can’t comment previously but not this year. DCI team killed it in the recent qualifier and won top spot and are going to regionals. Capitol City at the qualifier finished I think 11th or 12th.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is into STEM and/or robotics, consider putting DCI on your lottery list for middle school. I realize it is hard to get into if not from a feeder, but it’s not impossible. There are some spots and someone wins the lottery.

I was at the one of the 2 area FTC robotics qualifier yesterday. DCI robotics team came in 1st place out of 24 teams and they are advancing to regionals. They totally dominated the day, ranking 1st in every round and finished with about 30%, yes 30%, more points than the 2nd place team and those under that. Announcements were actually made about how the team was doing so well in general in a competition. It was amazing to see how fast, accurate, and precise their robot was in scoring points. The school has an amazing robotics club with tremendous teacher running it. They also have a strong math and science department also.

Lots of schools were there competing including Sidwell friends, Deal, Latin, and from the burbs with Bethesda, Mclean, etc…. It was great to see a DC public/charter school do well against private and suburban peers.

Lastly, I was talking to a parent there and the seniors are doing great with college admissions and she knew kids who will be going to Stanford (2), Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia in the fall These were all different kids and not the same kid.

I’m not here to debate schools but if you have a STEM kid, you should consider DCI.

I love DCI but the kids going to Stanford and Dartmouth do the Capitol City Robotics program which does much better than the DCI teams.

Can’t comment previously but not this year. DCI team killed it in the recent qualifier and won top spot and are going to regionals. Capitol City at the qualifier finished I think 11th or 12th.

PP is talking about the Cap City Robotics (CCR) Club, a non-profit, not the Capitol City Charter School. CCR does not have the same type of robots as DCI, so they can't really compare. But both have great programs.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is into STEM and/or robotics, consider putting DCI on your lottery list for middle school. I realize it is hard to get into if not from a feeder, but it’s not impossible. There are some spots and someone wins the lottery.

I was at the one of the 2 area FTC robotics qualifier yesterday. DCI robotics team came in 1st place out of 24 teams and they are advancing to regionals. They totally dominated the day, ranking 1st in every round and finished with about 30%, yes 30%, more points than the 2nd place team and those under that. Announcements were actually made about how the team was doing so well in general in a competition. It was amazing to see how fast, accurate, and precise their robot was in scoring points. The school has an amazing robotics club with tremendous teacher running it. They also have a strong math and science department also.

Lots of schools were there competing including Sidwell friends, Deal, Latin, and from the burbs with Bethesda, Mclean, etc…. It was great to see a DC public/charter school do well against private and suburban peers.

Lastly, I was talking to a parent there and the seniors are doing great with college admissions and she knew kids who will be going to Stanford (2), Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia in the fall These were all different kids and not the same kid.

I’m not here to debate schools but if you have a STEM kid, you should consider DCI.

I love DCI but the kids going to Stanford and Dartmouth do the Capitol City Robotics program which does much better than the DCI teams.

Can’t comment previously but not this year. DCI team killed it in the recent qualifier and won top spot and are going to regionals. Capitol City at the qualifier finished I think 11th or 12th.

PP is talking about the Cap City Robotics (CCR) Club, a non-profit, not the Capitol City Charter School. CCR does not have the same type of robots as DCI, so they can't really compare. But both have great programs.

I’m not sure what point is being made here because most of the kids in Cap City Robotics are DCI students