April 21, 2004

UCSD’s Preuss School Robotics Team Wins
Award At National Robotics Contest In Atlanta, Ga.

By Pat JaCoby

The robotics team from the Preuss School at the University of California, San Diego topped 300 other teams to win the national Engineering Inspiration Award at the Robotics National Championship in Atlanta, Ga.

The award is the second highest that a team can win at the national level. It celebrates the team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school as well as the community.

Criteria for the award include: the extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering, the extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts, and the measurable success of those efforts.

The team previously won the Engineering Inspiration Award at regional competition in Los Angeles.

The Preuss School at UCSD is a public charter school which serves low income, first generation, college bound students.

Media Contacts: Rob Mainieri, (858) 658-7249 or Pat JaCoby, (858) 534-7404