Inside Dallas ISD

Dallas ISD students helped set a Guinness World Record title for the largest Artificial Intelligence programming lesson hosted by Capital One. The high school students enrolled in Dallas ISD NAF Academies joined students from other school districts and volunteers from Capital One and Major League Hacking on April 17 to learn the fundamentals of Python coding language. The group then set the world record during Capital One Basic TrAIning: Bot Camp. “Capital One created the Basic TrAIning curriculum in partnership with Major League Hacking to give students cutting edge resources in AI, software development and problem solving, and to introduce…

A group of Sunset High School students have been invited to Washington D.C. next month to showcase an app they created to members of congress and the tech community. In 2018, more than 220 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives held a Congressional App Challenge. The Congressional App Challenge aims to engage students in computer science and spans 47 states and territories. Over four months, more than 5,000 students coded original apps as part of the district-wide competitions hosted by their members of congress. The office of Representative Marc A. Veasey was happy to announce Texas’ 33rd Congressional District…

While on a field trip visiting an engineering company, H. Grady Spruce Early College High School junior Reagan Busby noticed a serious lack of diversity among the staff. “In the entire staff that appeared, there was also only one African-American female,” Busby said. “I realized at that moment that there is an actual dilemma in the engineering world.” Busby learned more about the gender gap within the engineering workforce from Misti Munson, a senior construction leader from the Target Corporation. The Crowther Group, a Dallas ISD P-TECH industry partner, arranged for about 60 students enrolled in a Dallas ISD P-TECH…

Some of the top Dallas ISD robotics teams got a special surprise while visiting the Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center in Fort Worth: a $10,000 check to the Dallas ISD STEM Department to support district robotics teams. https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2019/04/08/dallas-isd-robotics-teams-earn-top-awards-at-national-competition/ In addition to receiving the $10,000 check, robotics teams from Robert T. Hill Middle School, Casa View Elementary, Alex Sanger Preparatory, Winnetka Elementary and Dallas Environmental Science Academy got an up-close look at the Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center on April 12. The teams recently earned top awards at the U.S. Open National VEX Robotics Championship held in Iowa.