Palos Verdes Institute of Technology
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Teacher: Graham Robertson
Room: K Bldg 501
Phone: 289
robertsong@pvpusd.k12.ca.us
Kick-Off and Open House Presentation (PDF)
www.pvit.org |
| Robotics Program |
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Solar Canoe 2013
PVHS Solar Cup Team did a great job this year!Check out the Metropolitan Water District page.
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 October 2012 - PVIT class with the space shuttle Challenger. |
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April 24, 2012 - Last weekend, PVIT went to the Robogames in San Mateo, the worlds largest robot competition.
https://robogames.net/index.php
Our team worked really hard all year to build a great robot named "Monty". Candace Johnson was ill and could not come - 4 girls on the team of 13. Parents Pete Marshall and John Alvarez put in many hours helping the students.
We competed in the very challenging Robomagellan category, where the robot must use GPS, ultrasound obstacle detection, and video to navigate a rough course, and find and touch orange traffic cones. We were the only high school in the event. UCLA won last year, and our goal was BEAT UCLA!
We placed second, behind a commercial robotics company that automates farm equipment and runs computer programs at MIT, our time for the course was 1 minute 42 seconds. The third place team took 14 minutes, and the other colleges were not even close. UCLA did not start.
Watch our robot in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMgjqLYT74E&feature=youtu.be |
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May 2011 - Our current ROV team won first at the regional competition, and is going to the International Finals at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston June 16 to 18th. Their ROV is completely designed by the students, applying knowledge from PVIT classes, to handle 4 complex tasks simulating the repair of a deep ocean well blowout.
The photo below shows the winning team, Team Red,
with mentor parent Liz Bacalja on the left. The photo above shows Team Black which finished third despite a major equipment failure on the last run. |
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The Palos Verdes Institute of Technology (PVIT) opened at PVHS in 1987 and featured one of the first high school robotics programs in the nation. When the school was reopened in 2001, PVHS students continued the PVIT tradition by becoming the only high school to field a DARPA “Grand Challenge” autonomous vehicle . The PVHS team competed with entries from Cal Tech, MIT, Virginia Tech and the winning vehicle from Stanford. With this established record of success, there was interest in developing a PVIT program that would offer preCollege engineering/technology courses while continuing opportunities for competitions, internships, mentoring and research.
Project Lead the Way (PTLW) offers this type of program through a flexible sequence of courses which builds students engineering/technology skills and knowledge. PVHS has linked math/science classes with PLTW courses which are recognized by UC and CSU and meet the “g” admission requirement. PLTW program comes from the UC faculty who have reported that they are impressed with PLTW and believe that these courses offer a great opportunity for students. |
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The United States is facing a critical shortage in the number of engineering students graduating from our universities. In 2002, there were about 78,000 aerospace engineers and 7,600 biomedical and biotechnical engineers working in the U.S. according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Yet the demand for engineers in the fields of design and manufacturing is continually growing and thousands of jobs are going unfilled.
Corporations here in our South Bay, including Aerospace, Boeing Corporation, Northrop Grumman, and Honda have enthusiastically advised our school to join with Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization, to help our students gain the knowledge they need to prepare for College and to excel in engineering and other high-tech fields.
In addition to these corporations, the University of California (UC) and other major universities have recognized PLTW, and many including Duke University and Purdue University offer credit or advanced placement for the PLTW coursework to students when they enroll. Rochester Institute of Technology also makes transferable College credit available to PVHS PLTW students. |
This (PLTW) is exactly the type of initiative
that we hope participants will write about
in the UC personal statement when we
ask applicants about opportunities they
have taken advantage of to prepare
for study at the University.
Susan Wilbur, Office of the President
University of California |
PVIT Club Weekly Meetings |
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 When: Every Sunday (1-4pm)
Where: Room 501 at PVHS
Who: Everyone is welcome!
What: You can join a team and do fun hands-on engineering projects |
News & Photos
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December 2011 - PVIT students in the Civil Engineering and Architecture class building a shed to hold a submarine.
May 2011 - Our current ROV team won first at the regional competition, and is going to the International Finals at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston June 16 to 18th. Their ROV is completely designed by the students, applying knowledge from PVIT classes, to handle 4 complex tasks simulating the repair of a deep ocean well blowout.
PVIT ROV Team Red Tide came in 2nd Place at the Long Beach City College Competition with Poseidon, their ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle!
 Miles Kashyap 9th grade
Keith Kreiner 9th grade
JJ Kuwata 9th grade
Conner Kashyap 9th grade
Joseph Bae 9th grade
Peter Klarwein 9th grade
Kevin Ly 9th grade
Anthony Bacalja 9th grade
Erik Jensen 9th grade
Nathan Moore 11th grade |
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