Dos Pueblos Robotics Team 1717 Ranked #1 in the World!

For the 2012 competition season, Team 1717's D'Penguineers and their Lindsay Rose-Bot:

• earned a cumulative offensive power ranking that placed them #1 in the world out of all competing robots.
• made it to the division semifinals in the World Championship.
• scored more points than any other robot in the World Championship.
• won the "Xerox Creativity Award" at the World Championship.
• won both the Los Angeles and Central Valley Regional Championships.

Video Highlights of the 2012 Competition Season!

Come Visit the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy!

Open Houses

• Saturday May 26 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Elings Center for Engineering Education
• Sunday May 27 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Elings Center for Engineering Education

The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy offers Open Houses on these Memorial Day weekend days to permit the public to see our facility and learn more about our program in an informal setting. Students and teachers will be present to answer questions and demonstrate our robots. These Open Houses will be held at the home for the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, the Elings Center for Engineering Education on the Dos Pueblos High School campus.

Please join us at one of these open houses and share our vision for transforming education! An RSVP is not necessary.

DPEA Computer Science Teacher Kevin McKee Wins Award

DPEA Computer Science teacher Kevin McKee has won a prestigious teaching award! The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has bestowed him with its Aspirations in Computing - Educator Award.

Mr. McKee is one of 33 high school teachers nationwide selected to receive the award, given to educators for their support and encouragement of young women's interest in computing and information technology. Several of Mr. McKee's female students have won NCWIT Aspirations awards over the years, including one national award winner and 3 regional award winners. Mr. McKee was chosen over 30 other Computer Science educators in the 8 county Central California Region.

Mr. McKee said: "I am grateful for and very humbled by this award. Coming into teaching from the business world, I am aware of the level of male dominance in the technology industry and am excited to do my small part to encourage young women to pursue tech careers. I am very proud of my female students; they are regularly among the top performers in my classes and frequently go on to major in technology related disciplines at the university level. They are truly the reason I received this award."

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation

The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation is a community-based charitable organization whose mission is to support the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy by providing financial resources, long-term planning, and sustainable systems and structures.

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy

The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy at Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA, was founded in 2002 by physics teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer.

The Academy:

• Is a highly-competitive school-within-a-school at Dos Pueblos High School.



• Has recently expanded to enroll 100 freshmen per year, from the entire Santa Barbara community, for an ultimate total of 400 students.
• Is a four-year integrated course of study in physics, computer science and engineering design.
• Culminates in robotics class in senior year, in which the students design and build a robot to compete on the national stage.
• Enrolls an approximately equal number of female students as male students.
• Is run as a small business by the senior students, who learn skills for their future success.
• Includes outreach and service-based learning to younger students, helping to boost their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

The combination of academics, project-based technical experience and teamwork gives students the competitive edge and true mastery of the skills necessary to enter the workforce and pursue post-secondary education.

The Elings Center for Engineering Education opened its doors to students in December of 2011.

Amir Abo-Shaeer, founder and Director of the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, received a 2010 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.