STEM Competitions
2023-2024 State Championship
Two of of our STEM teams made it to the 2024 VEX IQ STEM State Championship held in Chatsworth. One of the teams placed top 23 and the other top 30. Congratulations to Arjuna Burgos; Zebastian Gonzalez; Jiali Huang; Yuanhao Li; Peseth Py; Cadence To; Valerie Valencia; Zion Verceles; Brian Yu; Louie Zeno.
1st Place Champions: LAUSD East VEX IQ STEM Competition
Nightingale's two VEX IQ robotics teams shined in their league championship event, finishing 1st and 2nd in the two major competitions and sweeping all of the major awards. Team "Nightingales" won 2nd place in the skills challenge and 1st in the teamwork challenge. They also earned the Design Award, given to the team with the most effective and efficient robot design process. Congrats to Arjuna Burgos, Zebastian Gonzalez, Jiali Huang, Yuanhao Li, Alejandro McDonald Goldberg, Emily Zeng, and Bertram Zhou.
Team "Nighthawks" won 1st place in the skills challenge and 2nd in the teamwork challenge. They also earned the Excellence Award, given to the top all-around team based on judging and performance. Congrats to Chuanhuan Guan, Ahrieon Melendez, Cadence To, Rei Tranby, Valerie Valencia, Layla Velasquez, Zion Verceles, Brian Yu, and Louie Zeno. Both teams now advance to a state championship event, which will be held in early March.
2022-2023 State Championship
Gifted STEM Magnet takes 3 teams and 2 of them both win second place for different categories at the Boyle Heights STEM Competition. All 3 teams qualified to go to the STEM state championship. Congratulations to Alejandro McDonald Goldberg; Arjuna Burgos; Emily Ocampo; Jiali Huang; Armando Saldana Jr.; Emily Zeng; Bertram Zhou; Zebastian Gonzalez.
2021-2022 LAUSD East VEX IQ League MeetThree Gifted STEM Magnet teams excelled at the LAUSD East Vex IQ league meet. Not only did two of our teams participate in matches where the two highest scores were produced, but they ended the event ranked #3, #5, and #6 out of 36 teams. The idea of the game is to knock down as many orange disks as possible from the dispensers and then to shoot them onto the other side of the field. Two of our three teams have shooter mechanisms; they are the only teams in the LAUSD East league to have them.
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2020-2021 1st Place USC go ITGifted STEM Magnet won first place in the USC/goIT competition. STEM students, Jonathan Martinez, Jonathan Nguyen, and Mark Luong presented, “The Clean Stream,” to a panel of experts. The Clean Stream is a low-cost water-purifying system operated by a microprocessor called Microbit. The students successfully defined a problem and demonstrated the utilization of their prototype to win the event.
The mission of the USC/goIT program is to engaged students in solving problems through technology and creativity. The event was held in conjunction with National CS Week and as part of Nightingale’s partnership with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Computer Science. The event was live streamed through USC’s MESA (Math Engineering Science Achievement) YouTube Channel. This is Gifted STEM Magnet’s first public and major STEM competition.
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