Innovation Center – Page 3 – St. Vrain Valley Schools

Students race in AI competition

On Saturday, students from Longmont High School, or LHS, participated in St. Vrain Valley School District’s first DeepRacer Invitational, an Amazon Web Service Hackathon. At the event, 16 students worked in teams of two to embed Artificial Intelligence, or AI, and reinforcement learning technologies into 1/18th scale race cars, also called DeepRacer.
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St. Vrain students learn how a team brought a dragon to life

St. Vrain students got to see that dragons can be real with a wish and a push for innovation. Belle Cress, a 15-year-old from Colorado Springs, stroked her purple-scaled pet dragon as others admired the robotic creature responding to her touch on Wednesday at the Innovation Center. The size of a small dog, the pet
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St. Vrain’s Innovation Center shows no signs of slowing down

The St. Vrain Valley School District board climbed aboard the Mobile Innovation Lab for their workshop Wednesday before seeing some of the impressive work going on at the Innovation Center. “We go above and beyond at the Innovation Center, so we want you all to actually have the participation experience,” explained Patty Quinones, assistant superintendent
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St. Vrain to send two dozen robotics teams to international competition

Not one, not two, but 24 robotics teams are representing the St. Vrain Valley School District next month at the VEX Worlds Championship. Taking place in Dallas this year, student-led teams from the elementary to university level compete at this global event showcasing game strategy, design and teamwork skills in robotics. St. Vrain’s 24 teams
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Silver Creek student teaches game design class

Silver Creek High School senior Joe Looney is teaching a six-week game design course as part of his Leadership Academy capstone. He taught a class on Friday to 13 students at the Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools. Looney was a student of Tom Darcy, the director of advanced technologies and innovation at the
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Students use novel science in effort to reintroduce endangered fish

Taryn McDermid did not think at 15 she would be working to save an endangered fish species, but on Thursday she stood in front of a room of wildland biologists explaining her work doing exactly that. The Niwot High School sophomore and the other four members of the northern redbelly dace data science project team
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Local robotics team beats world record

Robotics competitions in the St. Vrain Valley School district have consumed the attention of many young minds. Of the two local competition styles, one has broken a world record while they both rank in the world. Working with SVVSD, Up-A-Creek Robotics is a high school team that competes in the FRC, or FIRST Robotics Competition,
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Celebrate local conservation at the northern redbelly dace fish release event

Saturday, August 28, from 10 a.m. to noon will be a celebration of over two years of conservation efforts by multiple organizations with the release of the Colorado native, endangered northern redbelly dace, into Webster Pond at Pella Crossing. The event will include St. Vrain Valley Schools Future-Ready Innovation Lab and hands-on activity stations for
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UCHealth Today: Students from Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools take on ‘Hospital Room of the Future’ challenge

In a similar fashion to the TV reality show, Shark Tank, young entrepreneurs from the St. Vrain Valley School District faced off as they pitched their brightest ideas about health care of the future. They didn’t present to Mark Cuban and his TV team but rather a sophisticated group of top brass from UCHealth, including a physician in
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Robots help special education and English learners with speech and social skills

The department of special education at St. Vrain Valley School District worked throughout the school year with the Innovation Center’s robotics program to help special needs students with social skills by using robots, according to a press release from SVVSD. A project team of high school students developed Socially Assistive Robotics applications at the Innovation Center. In
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