About San Dieguito Academy

The school as friendly to robotics as milk is to bones

If you were to search for the perfect school to start a robotics club, you'd probably end up at the gates of the Zeus school of gifted learners. It admits only prodigies, but it accepts them of all shapes and sizes from all geographical regions of the globe (in perfect proportion). Its students all have superior understanding of calculus and physics, and any robots they would build would appear no less graceful than a Renaissance sculpture. Zeus's campus is equipped with only the finest and most advanced technology in its facilities. It's also situated atop an asteroid orbiting the moon.

If you were to search for a real, normal school to adequately host a FIRST chapter, you wouldn't go to San Dieguito Academy either. In the clause "real, normal school," only two of those words apply.

San Dieguito is somewhere between your typical American high school and your typical utopian space high school. A little background: In '96, when the school was 60 years old, we dissolved a lot of the regulations most other schools still live under, and became a liberal school of choice. It wasn’t until after we banished the football team, adopted a 4x4 schedule, and opened the campus to all students that we saw fit to call our school an Academy. As a school of choice, any student in the district ca attend, providing space is available. Usually more students apply space allows, so there's a lottery to determine who's in.

Only 1500 students call SDA their home at a time, making for a homier atmosphere less like a country than a community. We offer a huge array of electives, from guitarmaking to cartooning to MIDI. As a school that prides itself on acceptance and humanism, we host events such as Exhibition Day, which allows students to showcase any talent they might have anywhere on campus during school hours on one day. With such a fertile atmosphere for creativity, it's a wonder Team Paradox came into being so late in the game.

The SDA robotics team has attracted the expected talent – brainpower, namely – in addition to the regiments with business savvy on our marketing team, and the artistic comedians whose work can be found in the tab north-northwest of here.