Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Team Video
Underwater ROV Team Wins 1st Place
Rocketry Team Qualifies for TARC National
The Rocketry team qualified for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) national competition in Virginia. This is the world’s largest student rocketry competition, and the team hopes to improve on their top 40 finish (out of 1000 teams) from last year.
Video Game Programming at HP CodeWars 2017 in Roseville
The Video Game Programming Team had a great experience attending the HP CodeWars Competition in Roseville, CA, and the team of Ryan Bloodgood and Atlee Pollock (short one player) got an Honorable Mention by tying for 3rd Place win in the Novice Division.
PVIT and WISE make Rube Goldberg machine
PVIT and WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) made a Rube Goldberg machine on Friday at lunch. Everyone was late for class because we couldn’t stop until we got it working!!
First Robotics finishes build season
Congratulations to the First Robotics team who finished their build season by their deadline at 9pm on Tuesday night. The robot is literally bagged and ready for their two major competitions on March.
The Palos Verdes Institute of Technology (PVIT) is the award-winning engineering program of Palos Verdes High School.
It is composed of two parts: a program of academic study and Engineering Advanced Projects, a distinguished program of project-based activities. The PVIT academic program, based on the nationally recognized Project Lead the Way (PLTW) curriculum, is open to all students at PVHS, and Engineering Advanced Projects, the PVIT “club”, is open to any high school student in the Palos Verdes Unified School District.
A little background -- after PVHS reopened in 2001, PVIT became the only high school program in the United States to field a DARPA “Grand Challenge” autonomous vehicle. Competing with entries from top universities, such as Cal Tech, MIT, Virginia Tech, and the wining vehicle from Stanford, the PVIT vehicle advanced to the second round of competition. With this established record of success, the PVIT program evolved further to offer pre-college engineering courses while continuing opportunities for engineering competitions, internships, mentoring and research.
Currently, PVIT offers a four-year engineering curriculum starting with Introduction to Engineering and culminating with Engineering Design and Development, the PLTW capstone course. The Advanced Projects program has grown to over 170 students meeting every Sunday to learn and experience hands-on engineering. Students obtain invaluable skills and knowledge while solving real-world problems, often posed through engineering competitions, while being mentored by award-winning teachers and some of the top engineers in our community who have over 500 years of engineering experience combined. Where else can a high school student build an electric vehicle, fabricate an underwater robot for marine exploration, program an autonomous ground vehicle guided only by sensors and GPS, launch, track, and recover a high altitude balloon to 100,000 feet above the earth’s surface, optimize a solar-powered boat for racing, or design autonomous quadcopters for search and rescue missions?