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<\/a>Members of the Coronado Middle School and Village Elementary FIRST Lego League robotics teams at the Spring Showdown competition. Coronado Unified robotics teams have been awarded multiple grants from the Department of War STEM FIRST Robotics Grant Program for the upcoming 2026\u20132027 season. Courtesy photo<\/p>\nThe grant will directly support CUSD robotics teams spanning all three levels of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program, helping ensure students have access to hands-on, high-level engineering and technology education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are incredibly excited to announce that CUSD Robotics has been selected to receive funding through the DoW STEM FIRST Robotics Grant Program for the upcoming season,\u201d said Roberta Lenert, CUSD\u2019s Director of Robotics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an incredible milestone for our program as it marks not only our first DoW STEM FIRST Robotics grant, but also the first time our Village Elementary team, Engineering Explorers, has received sponsorship,\u201d Lenert said.<\/p>\n
The grant will provide vital resources for the following teams:<\/p>\n
CHS FRC: LegionCHS & CMS FTC: Sentinel and CocoNuts & BoltsCMS & Village Elementary FLL: HackHERs, Tridentbots, and Engineering Explorers<\/p>\n
\u201cThis funding award underscores CUSD\u2019s continued commitment to fostering innovation, teamwork, and technical excellence among our students as the robotics program continues its impressive growth,\u201d said CUSD Superintendent Karl Mueller. \u201cOur robotics program would not be possible without the continued and significant support of our director, amazing coaches, and the Coronado Schools Foundation. CSF has been unwavering in its commitment to our STEM programs, and specifically to our young roboticists.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be eligible for DoW STEM funding, teams must have active and ongoing support from both a DoW-affiliated coordinator and mentor. This requirement provides a means for the DoW workforce \u2014 educators, scientists, and engineers \u2014 to achieve sustained engagement with students, parents, teachers, and the broader community in STEM initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) announced a major boost to its rapidly expanding STEM initiatives after being selected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5584,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-396924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-robotics","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}