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Chapter History
Familiarize yourself with the cultured history of the DHS Technology Student Association, featuring its subset programs and related activities.
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School Enrollment
2200 StudentsDHS is home to the largest student body in Colorado Springs, reflecting our unmatched diversity and sheer wealth of unique personalities.
Members
Though our total number of members varies on a year-to-year basis, our size has steadily been growing since the club's establishment.
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CTE Department Size
340 StudentsWe're always trying to promote engagement in technology areas. Our school has a staggering enrollment in CTE of 340, reflecting our commitment to technological excellence.
Fundraising
$2800We take pride in raising a large portion of TSA funds by way of fundraising. All profits earned circle back directly to students and the technology department as a whole.
Volunteer Hours
While it's hard to pinpoint an exact number of volunteer hours, TSA members are always searching for new ways to engage in community service activities.
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Yearly Growth
10%Ever since the start of TSA back in August of 2014, the size and scope of our chapter has expanded, as we now head into our first competition.
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Care & Share
Student leaders at Doherty High School regularly help out at local food banks.
PPLD
The Pikes Peak Library District, serving our local community, welcomes student volunteers to help with tutoring, book reviews, or other subjects.
DHS Tutoring
The Spartan Tutoring Center pays thanks to TSA & other volunteers, who help out struggling students..
DHS Cleanup
With such a large campus, waste is bound to accumulate in large numbers, and our clean up crew helps cut down on this.
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Student-Built Breadboards
For the 2017-18 school year, our TSA chapter decided to compliment our newly implemented comptuer science curriculum through experimentation with a set of breadboards.
Our starting aim was somewhat vague, as in we weren't exactly sure what we wanted to accomplishment. However, with a large portion of our TSA population composed of Physics students, we landed on the decision to program our breadboards to handle the stopping and starting of motors and other sensors on autonomous vehicles.
Of course, we needed to start with the basics- learning mundane tasks such as lighting up bulbs or turning on and off a motor. Though as we continued to experiment over the course of 4-5 weeks, our knowledge of these digital componets continued to sharpen, until at last we felt comfortable with delving into actually hooking up a car.
With some trial-and-error, alongside 2 weeks worth of build time, we put together a set of autonomous cars, which used line sensors to track when to stop, as well as a set of automated motors, signifiying to our cortex at what speed to drive.
The team-oriented and collaboration-friendly nature of this challenge contrasted with our previous focus on a tournament-style project. In general, our consensus on this change is welcoming; it was refreshing to work together as a team again. We're hoping to apply our knowledge of this field area in a more heavily computer-science-oriented project for next year.
Catapult Build Competition
Having finished off our drone-building project, the team then reserved some time to reflect upon the successes and failures of their past collaboration experience and made the decision to dedicate each passing year to a new theme of technology.
While we had delved deep into the field of digital electronics, a rising number of 'Principles of Engineering (POE)' students fueled the demand for a mechanical, tech creation.
With that in mind, a wooden catapult seemed the perfect fit for our team. As a means to get the process started, we spent a few days researching various designs, skimming over their strengths and drawbacks.
Armed with this preparation, we then sought out to construct models in CAD or through paper-sketching, before diving head-in to the hands-on construction. Using the plentiful resources of our technology labs, we blew through the build process within the span of roughly 2 weeks.
Whereas with the last project, we worked collaboratively on a drone, in this instance, we structured the event more as a competition, where each student (or group of students) would design independent of the others.
Under this framework, we held a tournament at lunch to celebrate the team's project, attracting students from all sorts of niches and inviting them to share lunch with us in the technology labs. Our final winners were Hailey ONeal, Ben Gokey, and Wiley Neumeyer, who proved their innovative spirit.
Collaborative Drone Build
As part of the 2014-15 school year, during which TSA was founded, club leaders arranged to build custom drones as a way to kick off the school's experimentation in areas of technology. Our aim was to teach club members that technology could extend beyond the classroom and engage with students on a new level.
Over the course of 4 weeks, spanning from the start to the end of January, we used the 'DJI F450 Flame Wheel ARF' as a base kit, piling on additional technologies as we went along. The project gained especial popularity amongst Digital Electronics students, who tied their knowledge of electronical composition into the build.
In the end, with a few weeks worth of work behind our backs, we waited for opportune weather to test out the drones, which are now resting, strung across our technology classrooms.
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