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2024-2025 Nationally Recognized PLTW Distinguished Engineering High School for 7 Consecutive Years

Poway High School Engineering Academy announces that it has been recognized as a 2024-25 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished High School. It is one of just 661 high schools across the U.S. to receive this honor for providing broad access to transformative learning experiences for students through PLTW [Computer Science, and Engineering]. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of PreK-12 students and teachers in over 12,200 schools across the U.S.

In 2015, the inaugural year of the Engineering Academy & Pathway, we received the honor of being a PLTW Certified Engineering Program, one of 13 in the state of California.

At Universidad de las Américas - Park (UDLA) we ran a FIRST Tech Challenge Scrimmage using the offical FIRST scoring software with STEAMUP Ecuador , World Skills Ecuador, and the Unidad de Innovación Tecnológica (UDLA) .udla . It was amazing to see all the students and schools excited and loving Robotics! A huge success! A huge shout out to Spyder that ran the workshop and the scrimmage.

Team Spyder, PHS SWENext and PHS Women in STEM has partnered with STEAMUP Ecuador , World Skills Ecuador, and the Unidad de Innovación Tecnológica (UDLA) .udla to educate school students in STEM in Ecuador. We used FIRST Tech Challenge robots (REV) for training. We have supported schools since 2022 year by donating 100 mBot robots for their success in STEM.

Our goal is to grow FTC teams in Paraguay and get more girls interested in STEM worldwide.


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Today we ran a FIRST Tech Challenge Build Workshop for schools and clubs at the Universidad de las Américas - Park (UDLA). This is the first of it's kind in Quito, Ecuador as the following years we used mBots, and for this year making that transition to FTC using REV Robotics platform.

Team Spyder, PHS SWENext and PHS Women in STEM has partnered with STEAMUP Ecuador , World Skills Ecuador, and the Unidad de Innovación Tecnológica (UDLA) .udla to educate school students in STEM in Ecuador. We used FIRST Tech Challenge robots (REV) for training. We have supported schools since 2022 year by donating 100 mBot robots for their success in STEM.

Our goal is to grow FTC teams in Paraguay and get more girls interested in STEM worldwide.


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Thank you REV for choosing us to be part of

We are exited to be sponsored by our friends at REV robotics, so we would like to give out a war
m Thank You to REV for coming in and sponsoring our team.

Thank you Bobby Graves, Project Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for sharing your knowledge with us and your experiences, on December 3rd, 2025 via zoom!

The Poway High School Women in STEM chapter, SWENext and FIRST Robotics Competition Team (FRC) Team Spyder 1622 invite you to the seventh annual, virtual and free, annual STEM career series webinar. This webinar is our eighth and final speaker which has had numerous STEM professionals speaking on "Exploring Career Choices" to aid youth in their career exploration within STEM fields.

FLASH BACK: On 9/27/25, Team Spyder presented the Green Machine T-shirt canon in the Miramar Airshow, which was held at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, San Diego. Our booth was provided by Incose, who invited us to host our T-shirt Cannon for the event attendees.

We were glad to reach hundreds of youth at this event, as we are able to spread STEM and the Word of FIRST.

A warm thank you to Incose for inviting us to advertise robotics and for providing us with a booth.

The Poway High School Women in STEM chapter, SWENext and FIRST Robotics Competition Team (FRC) Team Spyder 1622 invite you to the seventh annual, virtual and free, annual STEM career series webinar. This webinar is our eighth and final speaker which has had numerous STEM professionals speaking on "Exploring Career Choices" to aid youth in their career exploration within STEM fields.

Scan QR Code to register for this free event or visit: https://forms.gle/euta4KQR9EmWugbq7

Our either speaker this year, Bobby Graves, a Project Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, will begin sharing his experiences at 5 pm PST, on December 3rd, 2025 on zoom. Zoom meeting details will be emailed to those that sign up on the google form. We will feature a new speaker every other week throughout the fall.






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Day 2 (NOV 22) we began Qualification Matches for our Paraguay FTC Qualifier teams at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) using the official FIRST control system for scoring and managing awards linked to FIRST. Finals were amazing as we had the best of the best go head-to-head against each other!

A huge congratulations to all our awards winners:

Inspire Award
28478 Tecno Tesla

Winning Alliance - Captain
28478 Tecno Tesla
Winning Alliance - 1st Team Selected      28469 CEI Robotics

Finalist Alliance - Captain
33688 NCR
Finalist Alliance - 1st Team Selected
22787 Robo Gators

Sustain Award
22787 Robo Gators

Reach Award
28478 Tecno Tesla

Think Award
28469 CEI Robotics

Connect Award
33812 C.E.R.E.S. ROBOTICS

Innovate Award sponsored by RTX 
33685 PPBTECH

Design Award
33688 NCR

Plus,

Recognition Award for growing FTC Paraguay 
Mr. Rodger Dohm

Shout out to Spyder 1622 and PHS SWENext for running the FTC Regional Qualifier with Mr. Dohm, Jason Herron from the American School of Asuncion, and Carlos Riquelme from Centro de Capacitación Nikola Tesla.

Our goal as impactful collaborators is to grow FTC teams in Paraguay and get more girls interested in STEM worldwide.

 
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On Day 1 (NOV 21) we helped run a robotics FTC training at the American School of Asuncion with FTC ASA RoboGators 22787 and Tecno Tesla 28478 building and programming robots, to get teams ready for the competition the next day.  The 7 participating FTC teams are:

22787 Robo Gators
28469 CEI Robotics
28478 Tecno Tesla
33685 PPBTECH
33688 NRC
33812 C.E.R.E.S. ROBOTICS
33893 BotSquad

Great day of building!

Shout out to Spyder 1622 and PHS SWENext for running the event with Mr. Dohm, Jason Herron from the American School of Asuncion, and Carlos Riquelme from Centro de Capacitación Nikola Tesla.

Our goal as impactful collaborators is to grow FTC teams in Paraguay and get more girls interested in STEM worldwide.

 
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