Last year D-E’s varsity robotics squad, Critical Mass 0207, competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship. That level of success has inspired not only Critical Mass but also D-E’s other two other robotics teams, Absolute Zero and Quantum Smashers, to aim high for the 2017-18 school year. All are off to a great start…
Two teams from D-E traveled to NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) to compete at the 32nd Annual New Jersey Chemistry Olympics earlier this month. Science teacher and faculty co-advisor Dr. Marco Pagnotta explains, “This statewide competition, held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, brings together teams from high schools throughout the state to…
Last week, 8 members of Dwight-Englewood’s “varsity” Robotics Team, Team 207 Critical Mass, competed for the first time at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship at St. Louis Union Station. Despite it being the rookie year for most of our team members, our D-E team finished the week 7-2, and ranked 18th overall out of…
D-E’s Robotics Team, FTC Team 0207 Critical Mass, had many awards to report as its competitive season wrapped up. On February 11, Critical Mass traveled to Vermont for the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Vermont State Championship. At this competition, Critical Mass placed 4th out of 32 teams in the qualification matches, moving on to the…
Boo! On Sunday, October 30, the D-E Robotics’ Team Critical Mass hosted the Scary Sunday Robotics Meet in the Hajjar STEM Center. This was the first official First Tech Challenge meet of the 2016-’17 season and only the second time the Hajjar STEM Center has been host to the event. D-E community came and watched the…
D-E’s Hajjar STEM Center was announced as a winner of the 2016 American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Education Facility Design Award given by the Committee on Architecture of Education. As Architect Magazine explains, Hajjar STEM Center was recognized for architectural emphasis on “innovative building technologies and a fundamental connection to surrounding communities.” Read the Architect Magazine article here….
The Hajjar STEM Center was transformed into a buzzing center of culinary innovation and, later, an auction house during the Sip & Savor special fundraising event on March 5.
All D-E families, faculty/staff, alumni and friends are invited to enjoy an evening conversation on the principles of physics and the surprising, intriguing ways in which it influences our lives.
D-E’s Robotics team, Team 207/Critical Mass, will welcome 11 other New Jersey FIRST Tech Challenge (NJ FTC) Northeast Region teams for the “Northern Nightmare II” Friday Afternoon Meet on Oct. 30.
Dwight-Englewood School (D-E) celebrated the opening of the new 28,000 square-foot Hajjar STEM Center with a formal dedication on Tuesday evening, September 8, at which leadership donors were honored and recognized, including Dr. John Hajjar and his wife Sharon Hajjar and their family, for whom the Hajjar STEM Center is named. After brief welcome remarks…
While the Hajjar STEM Center was officially dedicated on Sept. 8, the students, staff and faculty of D-E didn’t get to see it until the next morning, right after the All-School Opening Assembly and BBQ.