Monday, March 31, 2014

WAIS included in Niche's Top 38 Schools

Houston is home to two of the largest school districts in the state and dozens of top-notch schools - it's one of the factors bringing families to the area.
Education website Niche.com awards grades to K-12 schools and colleges across the nation, and we took a look at which Houston-area public high schools are the best of the best.

WAIS is the 27th school shown in the listing; on slide 28 (the first slide is generalized and does not include a school).

Monday, March 24, 2014

WAIS takes 2nd in Texas Region for Botball Robotics Competition


Westchester Academy for International Studies (WAIS) earns Texas Regional First Place Seeding, Third Place in Autonomous Robotics Competition, and Second Place Overall which includes competition, presentation, and documentation accumulative scores at Botball Texas Regional Tournament on March 22. 

Team captions are Preston Godinich and Kaivon Dixon. Members are Malcolm Eastman, Adam Fazal, Jonatan Rodriguez, Diego Velazquez, Ozzie Prior and Christwide Oscar. Faculty coaches are Cheryl Wegscheid and Shaun Wegscheid. Since Botball robots are always autonomous the team developed strategies using artificial intelligence with embedded systems. Teams learn to program their robots in using C and C++.


FYI- We lost to teams that had several years’ experience with Botball, as well as having much larger teams if 15 -20 students. Not bad for our first adventure into purely autonomous robots with real coding required!



Link to Botball's 2014 Texas Regional Tournament Results

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Annual Blood Drive

Westchester's Med Club works with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center to organize and host a blood drive each year. This year's blood drive was postponed from its original dates in January due to school cancelations. Through the Med Club's students and sponsor Dr. Laura Sigworth, the WAIS Blood Drive was rescheduled and successfully hosted on March 10th.

This year's blood drive collected 83 units from 55 eligible donors.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Teacher of the Year: Kristin Thompson

Excerpt:  
“My teaching philosophy is simple, yet passionate. I run an organized classroom, based on how the students wish to learn and inquire. Students of mine understand their importance to me and...

See the full article on SBISD's Celebrating Excellence in Education

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