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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- No full courses of AP science classes every year - this is accurate
- No science labs - this is accurate 
- No math classes after Calculus - this is accurate 
- No STEM elective classes - does AP stats count? I think so. 
- No computer science or coding classes - accurate. 
- No robotics team- not accurate. It exists just not very good. 
- No STEM clubs- they have science Olympiad
- No STEM internship opportunities- accurate. [/quote]

What exactly does the robotics club do?  I don’t get it.

Do they have a robotics lab and builds and codes robots from scratch to then compete with the other schools in the DMV in tournaments?  If so what tournaments?

Above was asked and no answer.  Just silence.[/quote]

I don’t know about their robotics club but DCI’s does, supposedly- I think that’s a function of parents and sponsors who more or less “do that” for a living. Friends of friends. [/quote]

I don’t understand what you are trying to say PP.  What do you mean?[/quote]

She’s just being racist.  Their mentality is that kids who live outside ward 3 can’t be excellent. Disgusting. [/quote]

Well then I would argue, Walls is not excellent in STEM if they can’t even field a robotics team to compete which lots of schools do in the DMV.

I know some of these kids on the DCI robotics team and they are amazing, good, and kind kids.  DCI actually has 3 teams and all the teams are very diverse with kids who are white, black, asian, hispanics and that’s a great thing to represent a school.

Also FYI, the middle school and high school teams last year and this year advanced the most in the DMV to regionals and district even against the privates like SiDwell or the schools in the burbs like those in Bethesda and McLean.

The program is based at DCI as a club after school and the teacher who runs it is amazing.  He started the club, got the school and outside companies as sponsors to fund building the lab and all the equipment and has done so much to advance the program. [/quote]

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