Before heading to St. Louis, MO to compete in the FIRST Robotics League World Championship tournament this week, the Iron Eagles Robotics team speaks to KEYE TV. View the video here: http://weareaustin.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=140126
The competition begins this week, April 27-30, 2011. Good luck Iron Eagles!
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(Waco Texas Christian @ St. Dominic Savio, 4/27, 4:00 pm)
(AUSTIN) – The Iron Eagles robotics team from St. Dominic Savio Catholic High School in northwest Austin will compete at this year’s FIRST World Championship in St. Louis on April 27-30. The Iron Eagles won the Southwest FIRST Tech Challenge Championship hosted by the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington on March 5th. After scoring zero points in the first match at the regional competition, the team fixed a small programming glitch and stormed through the rest of the day, dominating their remaining 8 matches to win the championship. In addition, the team won two team awards (the PTC Design award and the “Think” award) and were finalists for two other awards, including the prestigious “Inspire” award. Descriptions of the awards can be found here.
St. Dominic Savio is a small, private high school in its second year of operation with 182 students in freshman, sophomore and junior classes. School Parent Michael Butler, an R&D – Mechanical Engineer at National Instruments, serves as head coach and started the team at St. Dominic Savio last school year with two other local engineers. The fledgling school finished in the top six in the 2010 Southwest FTC Championship before falling in the semifinals. So, the small team is very excited to have won one of two regional championships in Texas and is busy raising money to attend the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis April 27-30.
About the FIRST Tech Challenge
The FIRST Tech Challenge is the newest game in the FIRST family, placed between the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Each year FTC releases a new challenge and playing field for competing teams. Each team after analyzing the challenge, designs and programs their own robot to compete against other robots in a set playing field with limited intervals. Like FRC, the FTC is aimed at high school students, but its lower cost, longer season, and smaller, pre-defined set of components make it the perfect program for fledgling teams to get started in the FIRST program. As a result, it is also the fastest-growing FIRST program in the nation.
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On Friday, April 8, 2011, the St. Dominic Savio vocal music program competed in the TAPPS VOCAL 3A STATE Meet at the First Baptist Church in Belton, Texas. Twenty-two private schools from all over Texas competed in the 3A category. We are proud to announce that out of the 22 schools, St. Dominic Savio ranks 6th in the state.
The Mixed Choir, Faith Choir, SSA Madrigal, and SATB Madrigal received overall Division I ratings on their selections. Division I is a rating of superior, which is the highest division a group can receive.
Micaela Allen , David Bologna, Angela Kent, and Jacob Liles received Division I ratings for their solos.
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, the St. Dominic Savio instrumental music program competed in the TAPPS INSTRUMENTAL 3A STATE Meet at University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas. Twenty private schools from all over Texas competed in the 3A category. We are proud to announce that out of the 20 schools, St. Dominic Savio ranks 1st in the State. St. Dominic Savio is the OVERALL STATE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 3A CHAMPIONS for 2011.
The Clarinet Trio, Symphony, Strings, String Quartet, String Trio, Wind Ensemble, and Woodwind Trio received overall Division I ratings on their selections. Division I is a rating of superior, which is the highest division a group can receive.
Micaela Allen, Gabi Camacho, Christina Fair, Chris Gray, Juan-Jose Guevara-Hernandez, Adrian Higgason, Jakob Hurlimann, Matthew Leary, and Chelsi Wade received Division I ratings for their solos.
The entire school will attend the Chrism Mass, held at St. William Catholic Church, on April 19th.
Congratulations to the Savio Track Team on a successful meet this past Saturday, April 9th. They boys finished second out of 16 teams and the girls finished fifth out of 14 teams.
The baseball team continues to improve on last year’s season. In its inaugural varsity season, the team is 13-9. The boys play Round Rock Christian at Savio today, 4pm.
The softball team, in its first varsity season, is 5-4-1. The girls play home today versus St. Andrew’s, 4pm.
The Savio softball team improved its record to 6-4-1 yesterday afternoon by defeating St. Andrews, 1-0. Kat Rivera pitched a no-hitter and had 15 strike-outs, and Liz Sanchez went three for four and had the only RBI for the game.
The Savio baseball team improved its record to 14-9 yesterday afternoon by defeating RRC, 4-3.
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, the St. Dominic Savio instrumental music program competed in the TAPPS INSTRUMENTAL 3A STATE Meet at University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas. Twenty private schools from all over Texas competed in the 3A category. We are proud to announce that out of the 20 schools, St. Dominic Savio ranks 1st in the State. St. Dominic Savio is the OVERALL STATE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 3A CHAMPIONS for 2011.
The Clarinet Trio, Symphony, Strings, String Quartet, String Trio, Wind Ensemble, and Woodwind Trio received overall Division I ratings on their selections. Division I is a rating of superior, which is the highest division a group can receive.
Micaela Allen, Gabi Camacho, Christina Fair, Chris Gray, Juan-Jose Guevara-Hernandez, Adrian Higgason, Jakob Hurlimann, Matthew Leary, and Chelsi Wade received Division I ratings for their solos.
St. Dominic Savio did well at the Spanish Poetry Declamation contest at the University of Texas on Saturday, April 9th. There were more than 400 students participating this year. Freshman Jessica Phillips won second place for Spanish I, and Macarena Cruz won first place overall for Spanish III Native Speaker! This is the second time in as many years that Savio has won in that category (Pamela Izaguirre won last year). Also, congratulations to Brittney Bowman, Alejandro Gutierrez, Cole Korte, and Maura Weis for earning honorable mentions. They all did really well.
