Specialty Program Overview

Irons Engineering

Irons Engineering offers college-prep curriculum specifically for students in grades 6 – 8. Each program reinforces math and science through hands-on engineering design projects. Students explore engineering through a variety of modern technologies as they innovate, create, design, experiment, and learn all along the way. Students can choose to continue on their Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) path at Coronado High School taking the engineering courses that are offered there. 

Engineering 1 Units Taught

  • Intro to Engineering

  • Machines

  • Lego Robotics 1

  • Aerospace

  • Watt's Up

  • Catapult Competition

  • Egg Drop Competition

*Offered to 6th, 7th, & 8th Graders

Engineering 2 Units Taught

  • Review Intro to Engineering

  • Environmental Engineering

  • Human Machines

  • Rocketry 2

  • Lego Robotics 2

  • Catapult Competition

  • Egg Drop Competition

*Offered to 7th & 8th Graders

Engineering 3 Units Taught

  • Review Intro to Engineering

  • Structures

  • Drones EDU

  • First Robotics

  • Imaging the Human Body

  • Catapult Competition

  • Egg Drop Competition

*Offered to 8th Graders

6th graders pose with their catapult
6th graders testing their catapults
6th graders testing their catapults
8th graders poses with their FTC robot
8th graders pose with their marshmallow tower
7th grader working on her marshmallow tower
students winding up their mousetrap car
7th graders pose with their EV3 Lego robot for Sumobot project
6th graders working on their tetrahedron kite
students pose with their completed tetrahedron kite
students pose with their completed tetrahedron kite
students pose with their completed tetrahedron kite
6th grade students pose with their trophies for egg drop competition
students showing off their unbroken egg after testing their egg drop design
students showing off their unbroken egg after testing their egg drop design
students showing off their unbroken egg after testing their egg drop design

What Comes Next

Coronado High School T-STEM Academy Partner College Programs

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