The League Attends Navy Gold Coast Event at San Diego Convention Center
Lead Teacher Keith Groves along with students Yashwin Madakamutil, Alec [...]
E3 High Students – 2016-2017 Inaugural Graduating Class
This year we embarked upon a unique partnership with E3 [...]
League Student Deyvid Diego: Casa de Amistad students receive college scholarships
Del Mar Times, June 2016 Solana Beach’s Casa de Amistad has long helped local students succeed in school. In an effort to continue to support graduating seniors as they start college, the organization recently launched a scholarship fund. “We have a really generous anonymous donor making it possible to support higher education,”
Rancho Santa Fe School robotics team earns awards at iARoC competition, including a first place win
Rancho Santa Fe Review, July 2015 The Rancho Santa Fe Eagles-Intergalactic Dragons robotics team took home awards at the recent iARoC competition. The rookie team from R. Roger Rowe Middle School, composed of DJ Nelson, Justin Yu, James Busby, Lucas Luwa and Daniel Scuba, placed first in the Mars Navigation Challenge and third place overall out of 18 teams.
Local school teams taking part in 8th annual robot competition at Balboa Park
Del Mar Times Newspaper, June 2015 "More than 75 students from across California will participate in the eighth annual Autonomous Robotics Competition (iAROC) at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. Student-programmed, Roomba-style robots will compete in races, challenges, and mazes on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28. Anyone with a Fleet ticket can watch this two-day competition from inside the museum.
Self-driving robot competition at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
La Jolla Patch, 2015
"Watch student-designed autonomous robots go through their paces with no human intervention.
The 8th annual International Autonomous Robot Competition (iARoC) is a friendly competition that will be held at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center on June 27th & 28th 10am-4pm.
Carmel Valley club members win awards for programming at CodeDay
Del Mar Times, March 2015 "Twenty-two teams of eager young programmers (more than 120 kids) gathered recently at CyberHive San Diego, a shared workspace incubator that delivers business and technical support to early-stage cybersecurity and high-tech companies. They gathered for CodeDay, a nonstop 24-hour sleepless sprint to produce the best computer program as determined by a team of local, professional judges.
The League: giving kids the power to code June Clarke heads an after-school program that teaches programming
The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 2015
"The League of Amazing Programmers is a nonprofit after school program that teaches kids the skill of computer programming. Students from grades 5 to 12 go to the Carmel Valley-based campus and work with professional programmers on everything from creating games to making mobile phone apps. June Clarke, 36, is the lead teacher at The League. The former software engineer left her private consulting company to take on the role of an educator.Why Join the League of Amazing Programmers, as told by Stephen Cerruti, Senior Software Developer at Asset Science
Assets Science, November 2014 I’m passionate about software engineering and I’m passionate about education so I jumped at the chance to become a volunteer teacher at The League of Amazing Programmers. The League’s mission is to give kids the advantage they need to prepare for science and technology careers of the 21st century. They accomplish this using in person Java programming classes focused on the development of games, social and mobile applications and automated robots.
