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PALOS VERDES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY


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 * Competition Teams & Projects
   * Battlebots
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   * First Robotics
   * Electric Vehicle
   * Rocketry
   * Space Programs
   * TSA
   * Underwater ROV (Remotely-Operated Vehicle)
   * UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
   * VEX Robotics
   * Video Game Design
 * Calendar
 * Program Schedule
 * Facilities
 * Our Sponsors
 * Contact Us

 * Home
 * Competition Teams & Projects
   * Battlebots
   * Cyberpatriot
   * First Robotics
   * Electric Vehicle
   * Rocketry
   * Space Programs
   * TSA
   * Underwater ROV (Remotely-Operated Vehicle)
   * UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
   * VEX Robotics
   * Video Game Design
 * Calendar
 * Program Schedule
 * Facilities
 * Our Sponsors
 * Contact Us

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The Palos Verdes Institute of Technology (PVIT) is featured as one of the first
high school robotics programs in the nation, competing as the only high school
against top universities in the 2005 DARPA “Grand Challenge”. Following this
success, the PVHS PVIT program has continually grown to offer engineering
coursework, competitions, internships, mentoring, and research. PVIT utilizes
the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) curriculum which offers a flexible sequence of
courses that builds student’s engineering and technology skills. In addition,
through PVIT’s Engineering Advanced Project class, engineering teams building
underwater robots, rockets, high altitude balloons, autonomous robots, an
electric car and more, have competed and placed regionally, nationally, and
internationally in high-end engineering competitions, involving designing and
building very technical, custom hardware. The sheer nature of PVIT exposes
students to real engineering problems that empowers them to learn real
engineering skills. PVHS has linked math/science classes with PLTW courses which
are recognized by UC and CSU and meet the “g” subject requirement.

PVIT stands out among other high school engineering programs in that we are very
student-centered. We have many teams to meet the interests of our students, and
smaller teams so everyone gets the valuable hands-on experience. The vast
majority of high school robotics programs focus on one or two of the biggest
robotics competitions, which we have at PVIT, but we also offer a variety of
other engineering teams and technologies. To maximize our students’ experiences,
we have many smaller teams so everyone has a chance to experience real
engineering – we don’t have to crowd 50-80 students around one robot because of
our smaller teams. We allow our students to make their own decisions, whether it
leads to success or failure, because it is through these failures that our
students learn the most engineering and problem-solving. Our dozens of
professional engineering mentors, representing hundreds of years of engineering
experience spanning mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and software engineering,
meet with students every week to mentor them on professional engineering
practices.

PVIT WEEKLY MEETINGS

When: Every Sunday 2:00-4:00pm
What: Join a team and do fun hands-on engineering projects!

CONTACT US

Teachers: Jim Warren and Lorraine Loh-Norris (program co-directors)
Julie Maemoto, Jennifer Cho, Michael Swatek, Young Min Kwak, Donna Wanner
Rooms: 603, 512, 513
Phone: 310-378-8471 X43289
norrisl@pvpusd.net
warrenj@pvpusd.net

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