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[quote=Anonymous]Unless you have a kid in robotics (which I do), you do not realize that there are at least 4 different robotics competitions in which schools opt to participate:

- FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a popular, national competition where you build full-size robots that compete in district, regional (if you advance out of districts) and national competitions.  GDS participates in FRC, Sidwell does not...not sure on the others;

- FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a national competition involving simpler robots.  Not sure which schools participate in FTC (I believe if you go to www.firstinspires.org you can get a listing of schools in the area that compete in all these challenges);

- VEX Robotics is kind of like a glorified lego robotics competition...I know STA competes in VEX;

- Sidwell competes in the underwater robotics competition...those are large robots that have to navigate underwater challenges...not sure which other schools participate in that

I have never seen Burke at any robotics competitions...as far as I know they don't claim to be a STEM school and not sure they really emphasize that aspect

As you might expect, the STEM magnet schools like TJ and Blair are huge for STEM...honestly, they devote far more resources to STEM programs than any private.  Bullis has a pretty sophisticated STEM lab, though not sure what they do on the Robotics front. [/quote]

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