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2018-2026
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:2026-2027GETA Highlights
:2026-2027GETA Highlights
More To Be Announced...
2026 Regatta team won multiple awards including, sprint, endurance, leading by example, and getting 2nd place.
H2GP Girls Team World Championship Racers - August Kemtant Germany 2024
city summer of service intership
- Field Trips
Makers Faire - optional
- California Expo - seniors
- California Expo - seniors
- Aquatic Center - seniors
- Aquatic Center - seniors
- SAC state
- Consumes River College
- SASD sewer district - sophomores
- Regional sanitation tour - sophomores
Makers Faire
:2024-2025 GETA Highlights
:2024-2025 GETA Highlights
New generation in the GETA clubs...
Co-ed H2GP team made it through qualifiers!
2025 art, endurance, presentation and the Regatta Championship cup!
2025 H2GP Girls Team World Championship Racers - August Los Angeles 2024
2x Solar Regatta Championship Cup winners
SMUD and Lennar internships restarted after 2 years!
- Field Trips
- Consumes River College trades and engineering programs
- Sac State Solar race cars
- Regatta trip
California Trades Expo
Sac State Aquatic Center
📸 GALLERY
H2GP Grand Prix State Finals
SMUD Solar Car Race
SMUD Solar Regatta
:2023-2024 GETA Highlights
:2023-2024 GETA Highlights
Many new opportunities this year for GETA, Including:
- Our Project Based Curriculum has continued to improve.
- Our Project Based Curriculum has continued to improve.
- GETA Potluck and Senior KanJam events
- GETA Potluck and Senior KanJam events
- Mr. Johnson continues to be our reining KanJam Champ
- Mr. Johnson continues to be our reining KanJam Champ
- GETA Fundraisers & Foodfair
- GETA Fundraisers & Foodfair
- Leadership raised about $500 from their fundraisers to get academy shirts
- Leadership raised about $500 from their fundraisers to get academy shirts
- Student made fundraising products such as key-chains and commissions
- Student made fundraising products such as key-chains and commissions
- Freshmen won the Engineering Design at the SMUD Solar Car Race
- Freshmen won the Engineering Design at the SMUD Solar Car Race
- New boat built for the SMUD Solar Regatta, using new hydraulic steering system
- New boat built for the SMUD Solar Regatta, using new hydraulic steering system
- Regatta Boat team took home Endurance and Speed awards
- Regatta Boat team took home Endurance and Speed awards
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Grand Prix Car Club has started up again
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Grand Prix Car Club has started up again
- Grant earned from local radio club for Satellite Rocketry & Radio Club
- Grant earned from local radio club for Satellite Rocketry & Radio Club
- Sophomores start up new aquaponics project
- Sophomores start up new aquaponics project
- Junior ARCGIS Mapping project
- Junior ARCGIS Mapping project
- Senior GETA COMM and Landsail project
- Senior GETA COMM and Landsail project
- SMUD Landsail workshops
- SMUD Landsail workshops
- New FlashForge 3D printers & Plastic recycling system, these open many new opportunities for students and future projects
- 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
- Many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Mock Interviews, and Trades Training Workshops
Including: SMUD events/internship, Happy Valley Dairy Project, Villara, Lennar Junior Internships and Trades Training workshops.
Including: SMUD events/internship, Happy Valley Dairy Project, Villara, Lennar Junior Internships and Trades Training workshops.
📸 2023-2024 Gallery
📸 2023-2024 Gallery
Awards Night
Students enjoying games at Potluck
Assembling boat
SMUD Solar Regatta Team
GETA presents to 8th graders at LCHS info night
GETA presents to 8th graders at LCHS info night
Sophomore Aquaponics Setup
Satellite Radio club installing Antenna
-In collaboration with local radio club, Ham Shack and antenna installed in facility
-In collaboration with local radio club, Ham Shack and antenna installed in facility
-Successful Alumni Night, Potlucks, KanJam, and Awards Night events
-Successful Alumni Night, Potlucks, KanJam, and Awards Night events
Student made Regatta Highlight Video
2022-2023 SMUD Solar Regatta Race
2022-2023 SMUD Solar Regatta Race
- In the 10th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Speed and Endurance Event Awards.
- In the 10th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Speed and Endurance Event Awards.
- This year we brought Sophomores who are interested in the joining the team to the event in preparation for next year.
:2021-2022 GETA Highlights
:2021-2022 GETA Highlights
Our New GETA Facility has been completed
Our New GETA Facility has been completed
- Our Project Based Curriculum has continued to improve.
- Our Project Based Curriculum has continued to improve.
- We held another successful Senior KanJam event! Mr. Johnson is still the reigning champ, looking forward challenging GETA next year.
- We held another successful Senior KanJam event! Mr. Johnson is still the reigning champ, looking forward challenging GETA next year.
-We also held multiple other events such as an awards night for our current students to earn awards for their hard work in GETA classes and an alumni night for alumni to meet up with friends and catch up with the academy.
-We also held multiple other events such as an awards night for our current students to earn awards for their hard work in GETA classes and an alumni night for alumni to meet up with friends and catch up with the academy.
- We started/revived a new club this year. In partnership with Robert Twiggs, our local amateur radio club, and many others we have started up our Satellite Rocketry & Radio Club which strives to teach students more about circuitry, radio, and satellites with the end goal of creating a Satellite and using our radio skills to communicate to it and others.
- We started/revived a new club this year. In partnership with Robert Twiggs, our local amateur radio club, and many others we have started up our Satellite Rocketry & Radio Club which strives to teach students more about circuitry, radio, and satellites with the end goal of creating a Satellite and using our radio skills to communicate to it and others.
- We also had many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Job Shadows Experiences, Mock Interviews, Trades Training Workshops, and Problem Case Based Learning Assignments.
- We also had many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Job Shadows Experiences, Mock Interviews, Trades Training Workshops, and Problem Case Based Learning Assignments.
Regatta team won endurance, speed, and slalom award and the regatta cup
Including: SASD, SMUD, Happy Valley Dairy Project, UC Davis Air Filtration Training, Villara, Lennar Junior Internships and Trades Training workshops.
Including: SASD, SMUD, Happy Valley Dairy Project, UC Davis Air Filtration Training, Villara, Lennar Junior Internships and Trades Training workshops.
📸 2021-2022 Gallery
📸 2021-2022 Gallery
HVDP Presentation
Satellite Team: assembling telescoping antenna
Alumni Night: Alums signing posters
Awards Night: Succulent Awards
Awards Night: student and parent seating
Students giving SASD presentation proposing solar canopy or alternative energy solutions
Alumni Night: Alums chatting
UC Davis Filtration Presentation and Demo
KanJam Tournament
Regatta team photo during drive practice
2021-2022 SMUD Solar Regatta Race
2021-2022 SMUD Solar Regatta Race
- In the 9th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Championship Cup in addition to taking the Slalom race, and Speed Event Awards.
- In the 9th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Championship Cup in addition to taking the Slalom race, and Speed Event Awards.
2021-2022 Smud Solar Car Race
2021-2022 Smud Solar Car Race
-This year GETA Freshmen and Sophomores created mini solar cars. They placed 2nd overall and won the Engineering Design and Sustainability awards.
Here is a student made video documenting the event.
:2019-2020 GETA Highlights
:2019-2020 GETA Highlights
BIG NEWS ITEMS for 2021-2022
BIG NEWS ITEMS for 2021-2022
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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. :C
This School Year we expanded on our success from last year while working through serious obstacles:
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 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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
:2018-2019 GETA Highlights
:2018-2019 GETA Highlights
This school year has been one of our most successful years to date:
This school year has been one of our most successful years to date:
- In the 2019 Annual SMUD Solar Race Car event held at Cosumnes River College, our Freshmen finished in 1st place as the Champions, 3rd, and took home top prizes in the Design Competition and Sustainability Competition
- In the 2019 Annual SMUD Solar Race Car event held at Cosumnes River College, our Freshmen finished in 1st place as the Champions, 3rd, and took home top prizes in the Design Competition and Sustainability Competition
- In the Toyota Sponsored, Horizon Grand Prix, Laguna Creek Host the NorCal Finals and our team finished 2nd overall, 2nd in Energy Efficiency and first in the Stock Class Design Competition.
- In the Toyota Sponsored, Horizon Grand Prix, Laguna Creek Host the NorCal Finals and our team finished 2nd overall, 2nd in Energy Efficiency and first in the Stock Class Design Competition.
- In the 8th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Championship Cup in addition to taking first in the Slalom race, and Second in the Sprint, Endurance and Presentation Events.
- In the 8th Annual SMUD Solar Regatta, we brought home the Championship Cup in addition to taking first in the Slalom race, and Second in the Sprint, Endurance and Presentation Events.
- Two of our Advocacy Classes Won the annual Christmas Door Decorating Contest.
- Two of our Advocacy Classes Won the annual Christmas Door Decorating Contest.
- Our Project Based Curriculum continues to improve every year.
- Our Project Based Curriculum continues to improve every year.
- Our Brand New GETA Facility is Scheduled to break ground in early October
- Our Brand New GETA Facility is Scheduled to break ground in early October
- We had many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Job Shadows Experiences, Mock Interviews, Trades Training Workshops, and Problem Case Based Learning Assignments. Some of these include: Folsom Power House, UC Davis PE & HV Research Center, All Power Labs in Berkeley, SunPower in Richmond, Sacramento Regional Builders Exchange (SRBX) Trades Expo,
- We had many successful field trips to partner facilities, guest speakers, Job Shadows Experiences, Mock Interviews, Trades Training Workshops, and Problem Case Based Learning Assignments. Some of these include: Folsom Power House, UC Davis PE & HV Research Center, All Power Labs in Berkeley, SunPower in Richmond, Sacramento Regional Builders Exchange (SRBX) Trades Expo,
Go Kart Sprint Champions
Go Kart Sprint Champions
📸 2018-2019 Gallery
📸 2018-2019 Gallery
The breadth of our studies grows every year: Solar Charging Station, EV Charging Port and Electric Go Kart
The breadth of our studies grows every year: Solar Charging Station, EV Charging Port and Electric Go Kart
Being Recognized for Excellence in Sportsmanship at the College Level Regatta Competition
Being Recognized for Excellence in Sportsmanship at the College Level Regatta Competition
Our GETA Seniors at our Academy Awards Night
Our GETA Seniors at our Academy Awards Night
Wind turbines hoisted at our LCHS Quad Wind Farm
Wind turbines hoisted at our LCHS Quad Wind Farm
The Endurance Race at the Annual SMUD Solar Regatta - This photo is actually taken on Saturday after the Friday High School Competition as we competed against the College teams and tied for first in the Endurance Race with 18 total laps in 25 minutes.
Receiving Championship Honors at the SMUD Solar Regatta
Receiving Championship Honors at the SMUD Solar Regatta
The amazing GETA Regatta Presentation that earned us the Championship Cup
The amazing GETA Regatta Presentation that earned us the Championship Cup
Our Solar Race Car Winners
Our Solar Race Car Winners
Daniel from SMUD preparing our freshmen for the LCHS In-House Solar Race Car Regional Qualifying Event
Daniel from SMUD preparing our freshmen for the LCHS In-House Solar Race Car Regional Qualifying Event
All of our Solar Race Car Competitors
All of our Solar Race Car Competitors
Sac State and CRC College Tour
Sac State and CRC College Tour
Last minute repairs at our hotel at the state HGP Finals
Last minute repairs at our hotel at the state HGP Finals
Our HGP Stock Car Category State Winners
Our HGP Stock Car Category State Winners
The NorCal Horizon Grand Prix Teams at LCHS
The NorCal Horizon Grand Prix Teams at LCHS
A steaming cup of "StarBirds" Coffee and one of this year's winners for the Christmas Door Decorating Contest
A steaming cup of "StarBirds" Coffee and one of this year's winners for the Christmas Door Decorating Contest
Austin of All Power Labs gave us a great overview of our need to be energy aware
Austin of All Power Labs gave us a great overview of our need to be energy aware
All Power Labs Biofuel tour in Berkeley
PBCL Presentation to our partners at SASD (Sacramento Area Sewer District)
PBCL Presentation to our partners at SASD (Sacramento Area Sewer District)
A group photo at the Folsom Power House
A group photo at the Folsom Power House
UC Davis PE & HV Tour
UC Davis PE & HV Tour
Our Students Really Enjoyed The Folsom Power House
Our Students Really Enjoyed The Folsom Power House
A panoramic view of our sophomore wind farm
A panoramic view of our sophomore wind farm
The Actual Folsom Power House
The Actual Folsom Power House
Folsom Power House Trip to also learn about the Native Americans who once lived in this area.
Folsom Power House Trip to also learn about the Native Americans who once lived in this area.
Folsom Power House Group Picture
Folsom Power House Group Picture
Our GETA freshmen working with solar lighting and learning to solder
Our GETA freshmen working with solar lighting and learning to solder
Trades Training Workshop: Drywall
Trades Training Workshop: Drywall
SunPower Solar Presentation
SunPower Solar Presentation
One of our students as Rosie the Riveter
One of our students as Rosie the Riveter
Rosie The Riveter Docent explaining what to expect in the Museum
Rosie The Riveter Docent explaining what to expect in the Museum
SunPower Activity- Tracing the Energy of the Sun to its use in the home.
SunPower Activity- Tracing the Energy of the Sun to its use in the home.
SunPower Table Discussions with SunPower Experts
SunPower Table Discussions with SunPower Experts
SunPower- A stop along the tour
SunPower- A stop along the tour
The Power House had some really large, on-site created, tools
The Power House had some really large, on-site created, tools
Daniel of SMUD explaining the tips and tricks to a successful solar race car
Daniel of SMUD explaining the tips and tricks to a successful solar race car
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