2024-2025 GETA Highlights:

More To Be Announced...

For more media from this year TBA.

2023-2024 GETA Highlights:

2024 Spring Season of Incredible GETA Team Success:

- Toyota Mirai-Hydrogen Grand Prix (H2GP) State Technical Presentation Winners

- SMUD Solar Race Car Stock Category and Sustainability Winners

- SMUD Solar Regatta Sprint, Endurance, Presentation, Leading by Example, Sustainability and Championship Cup Winners

...and the All-Girls H2GP RC Racing Team (Upper Left 1st photo) has been invited to compete in the Toyota Mirai-Hydrogen Grand Prix World Finals in September!!!

Internships

- Miles Deville with EGUSD Facilities & Planning Office - 1 of 5 selected

- Trevor Matsumoto with Lennar - 1 of 20 selected (2023)

- Bao Hung Vo with Lennar 1 of 20 selected (2024)

- Kai Grecia with SMUD 1 of 11 selected & Regional San Bufferlands 1 of 3 selected

- Madison Lopez with Regional San Bufferlands 1 of 3 selected

- Zachary Peiper with Regional San Bufferlands 1 of 3 selected

- Our Project Based Curriculum continues to improve

Field Trips

- UC Davis Engineering and Makerspace Tour 

- CIEF Trades Day @ Cal Expo

- World of STEAM @ Lincoln High School

- ARRL Loomis Train Depot HAMFEST

- Student workshops including: Telemetry, Silk Screening, GETACOMM, and HAMCRAM

- Students from our Satellite Radio, and Rocketry Team Launched two Pico Balloons into the upper atmosphere to collect weather, temperature, and GPS data!

- Many Collaborative events and competitions held with the Manufacturing Production Technology Academy (MPTA) Leadership team, including Harriet Eddy Middle School presentation, the first annual pinewood derby and Potlucks!

- Leadership Fundraising from Alumni Night silent auctions, Food-Fairs, and Handmade Product sales has allowed us to purchase and install a silk screening press to train students and provide a resource for students to represent our school and academy to the community and beyond

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2022-2023 GETA Highlights:

Many new opportunities this year for GETA, Including:

- Our Project Based Curriculum has continued to improve.

- GETA Potluck and Senior KanJam events

- Mr. Johnson & Mr. Collins continue to be our reining KanJam Champs

- GETA Fundraisers & Foodfair

- Leadership raised about $500 from their fundraisers to get academy shirts

- Student made fundraising products such as key-chains and commissions

- Freshmen won the Engineering Design at the SMUD Solar Car Race

- New boat built for the SMUD Solar Regatta, using new hydraulic steering system

- Boat team took home Endurance and Speed awards

- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Grand Prix Car Club has started up again

- Grant earned from local radio club for Satellite Rocketry & Radio Club

- Sophomores start up new aquaponics project

- Junior ARCGIS Mapping project

- Senior GETA COMM and Landsail project

- SMUD Landsail workshops

- New FlashForge 3D printers & Plastic recycling system, these open many new opportunities for students and future projects

- Many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Mock Interviews, and Trades Training Workshops

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Including: SMUD events/internship, Happy Valley Dairy Project, Villara, Lennar Junior Internships and Trades Training workshops.

-In collaboration with local radio club, Ham Shack and antenna installed in facility

-Successful Alumni Night, Potlucks, KanJam, and Awards Night events

BIG NEWS ITEMS for 2021-2022

1. We have partnered with a Wind Turbine Simulation Software company called Simis (Software- ASHES) and a High School in Sweden (Tecknikum) to bring wind turbine modeling, virtual testing, fabrication and real life testing to high schools throughout the world. More to come ...

2. We are working with the original designer of our 1st generation charge controller for our wind turbines. We have reconnected and are in the collaborative and prototyping phase for the next generation. This charge controller will include Augmented Reality (AR) to help students understand the workings of the controller. More to come...

3. We are working with Twiggs Space Lab as the BETA program for a line of STEM products that takes students from simple circuitry, all the way to a small satellite. More to come...

4. The SMUD Solar Regatta is back and we will be working to get our boat and team ready for the May 2022 competition in Ranch Seco, CA.

5. Hopefully, we will be travelling to Brazil in June of 2022 to teach students in Sao Paulo, Brazil how to build Solar Suitcases. This trip in 2020 was cancelled at the very last minute due to COVID. 

• UPDATE (3/21/2022): All travel, as per our Brazilian counterparts, has been postponed until at least August 2022. More to come...

2019-2020 GeTA HighLights:

This School Year we expanded on our success from last year while working through serious obstacles:

-This year has definitely brought its ups and downs with the biggest obstacle of the second semester being the COVID-19 pandemic. This unfortunate turn of events led to a drastic change in the learning environment. The GETA academy took this obstacle head on and continued the curriculum. 

-This year a team of GETA students ranging from sophomores to seniors planned a prepared from a technical/cultural exchange with Brazil. To provide for the poorer communities in Sao Paulo these students prepared several solar suitcases, learned parts of the Portuguese language, and communicated with students in Brazil. Unfortunately because of the COVID-19 pandemic the trip itself got cancelled, but the learning that took place as a result of their preparation reflects the academy in a positive manner.

-Our solar regatta team strived to surpass the success from last year. In attempt to improve the boat as a whole, the students planned to integrate a new hydraulic steering mechanism, and then remodel the boats solar panel supports and angling system. 

-The learning curriculum has continued to grow and develop.  

-Once again, we had many successful field trips and career opportunities with our partner facilities. This includes; SASD, Lennar, SMUD, CRC, Sac State, UC Davis, EGUSD, Horizon Educational, and Villara. 

GETA Accomplishments:

• All-Girls H2GP (Hydrogen Grand Prix) World Finals Competitors - September 2024

• $25,000 Grant from ARRL (Amateur Radio Relay League) to create our own Hamshack and Launch Pico-Balloons into LEO

• Articulation Agreement with Cosumnes River College for its ADT 310, 3-unit, CAD class (Capstone Course)

• Internships with Lennar Homes, Regional San, Sacramento County Waste Management and Recycling, SMUD

• PBCL's (Problem-Based Case Learning): Solar PV System Installation with Regional San; Hydro-Electric Power Plant Installation for The Happy Valley Dairy with SMUD; 

• Six Time Northern California Solar Regatta Champions

• Selected to Toyota's 2017-2018 Hydrogen Horizon Hydrogen Fuel Cell RC 4-hour Endurance Race

• Solar1 World Championship Racers in Monte Carlo, Monaco - July 2014

• As of 12/2017, 127 Solar Suitcases sent to 25 Different Developing and/or Third World Nations

• Bicycle RV's Designed and Fabricated for the Homeless of Sacramento

• With MPTA (another great academy on our campus) we've built two Tiny Home's for homeless Veterans. 

• GETA Freshmen competing is SMUD's 2018 Solar Racer competition

• All Seniors leave with OSHA 10 Certification

• All Seniors will have conducted MOCK Interviews with one of our partners before they graduate.

• Hosted Media Event for the role out of SB x11 with Tom Torlakson, Darryl Steinberg and Robert Weisenmiller

• 11/29/2017 - Submitted a Prop 51 Grant Proposal for a New Facility (Please Come Back in June 2018 to see if we are awarded these funds)

• Update on the  Prop 51 Grant: The scores are in and we received a 131.5/141 = 93.3%. The money has been approved and The Architects have been very busy putting our thoughts on paper. According to the timeline set this summer, we should be walking into the building August 2020.

• GETA will be hosting The 2019 H2AC Northern California Regional Championships-March 9, 2019 (A 3 hour endurance RC race where the RC cars run on hydrogen and battery power.) 

Some of the fun we have: