2223 UHS
Welcome to the 2223 teams Web Page. We are the robotics team of the University High School of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Every year VEX Robotics introduces a new challenge, this year (2019-2020), the challenge is "Tower Takeover". See the following video: VEX Tower Takeover -2019-2020 VEX Robotics Competition Game
There are FOUR 2223 UHS Robotics Teams
News
Computer Club
Visit us at the Club Fair on Friday September 6 in the school lobby
Meetings will be Mondays at 12:00 in the School Computer center
Bake Sale on November 14!!!
Pretzels ~ Quesadillas ~ Brownies
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Qualified to Latinamerican competition
We congrat our three robotics teams for qualifying to the Latinamerican competition in Manatí, Puerto Rico. We also congrat the team 2223R for winning the Judges Award in the High School Advance category and the team 2223T for winning the Judges Award in the Middle School Advance category.
Our School
University High School-UHS
Escuela Secundaria de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
The High School of the University of Puerto Rico, known as UHS, is located on Gándara Avenue # 7, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is a department attached to the Faculty of Education. It was founded in 1913 to offer clinical experiences and supervised practice for postulant teachers, teaching staff support and other professionals in what was formerly known as the Normal Insular School. As a general education center at the secondary level (seventh to twelfth grade), the UHS is affiliated with the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS).
As a laboratory school, its teachers and staff are committed to research, professional development, curricular development, teacher training and educational experimentation. Therefore, it has a service mission; be a center of practice, laboratory, model of innovative educational techniques, a center for research and dissemination of new educational models and the scientific and social theories that will be implemented in our society.
Among the services offered to our students are the following: Counseling Program, School Library, Multitutorial Room and the Educational Technology Center
For more information visit: uhs.upr.edu
Our Robotics MENTOR:
Jeannette Milland Vigio
Professor Jeannette Milland has been working with the VEX Robotics Teams for eleven years now. In 2008 she was awarded the VEX Robotics Mentor of the Year. What started as a volunteer job due to her son's involvement in the school's robotics team as an 8th grader developed into a passionate way of life around robots. Now her son is a junior majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and a captain of one of their robotics team while Professor Milland teaches Robotics and Technology at the University of Puerto Rico's High School (UHS), one of Puerto Rico's cutting edge laboratory school. This year she is mentoring four UHS teams competing at the VEX Challenge and one team in the VEX U (college level) robotics competitions.
She has a MBA in Technology Management from Phoenix University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Puerto Rico. She will become a certified Web Developer in March 2017 and recently started her PhD in Educational Technology at the University of Puerto Rico.