Other mentors come from local community organizations and businesses and provide the team with machining resources and sponsorship. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located in Pasadena, California, has long been a source of mentors for the team.
The FIRST team is supported by mentors who guide the students in the creation of each year's robot. The team attends its own competitions and competes with other schools, similar to the FIRST team. The team, instead of using custom built and machined parts, uses VEX's prefabricated products and systems to create competition-ready, functional, and operational robots.
VEX Robotics A VEX Robotics team was established during the 2014–2015 school year. In the 2007 season, after taking finalist in the Los Angeles Regional and winning the San Diego Regional, the team attended the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time in the team's history. With the help of several mentors, the team of high school students has competed at FIRST Robotics regional competitions in Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. Each year since 2001, members have created functional robots in the six-week time period allotted. Robot created by students in 2003 for the FIRST Robotics CompetitionįIRST Robotics Competition Team 696 (The Circuit Breakers) is based at Clark.
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 1 (0.1%). Statistics for 2008-2009 school year Īs of 2006 about 60% of the students were ethnic Armenian. The school also hosts other informal athletic activities, such as a mountain biking club. Students form teams with other fellow students and compete for trophies and medals. These intramural sports allow students to participate in athletic activities such as basketball, flag football, softball, and volleyball. After an applicant has been chosen in the lottery, they have to accept or decline their seat at Clark Magnet High School.Ĭlark Magnet has intramural sports. Students who apply after the deadline are put on a waiting list. The eligible applications will then go through an electronic lottery. No more than 10 missed days of school the year before. No more than five unsatisfactory (U's) citizenship marks. Grade point average of at least a 2.0 (C's). These are the requirements for Clark Magnet High School as of 2019: In order to attend Clark Magnet High School, students must fill out an application. #29 Los Angeles, Metro Area High Schools. The school's rankings as of 2021 are as follows: Clark Magnet has an overall score of 96.54/100. 2021 rankings Ĭlark Magnet High School is ranked averagely high in many different categories. In 2015, it was ranked nationally as the 153rd best school in the country by Newsweek. In addition, five students of the school won the 2010-2011 Lexus Eco Challenge Grand Prize for their analysis of toxins present in lobsters. In 2006 it became a National Blue Ribbon School. In 2005, it had the top Academic Performance Index (API) ranking of any high school in the Glendale Unified School District. In 2005, it was designated as a California Distinguished School, an honor bestowed by the California Department of Education to the best schools in the public system, and received the California Exemplary Career Technical Education Program Award. The Class of 2013 accepted 325 students out of 607 applicants, or about 54%. Lena Kortoshian has been principal since 2016.Ībout 300 students are enrolled each year. He served the school until his retirement in 2016. Doug Dall was the inaugural principal for Clark Magnet. The school is bolstered by corporate sponsorships. It underwent a US$15,000,000 renovation and opened in September, 1998. 
The school uses the former campus of Anderson W. To alleviate overcrowding, Clark Magnet High School accepts students from the attendance of all three comprehensive high schools through a lottery system. The task force recommended a new magnet school be commissioned, to focus on advanced technologies and the physical and earth sciences. The school was conceived from the recommendations of the "Vision of the Future" Task Force, created by the Glendale Unified School District to investigate overcrowding at the school district's three comprehensive high schools, Glendale High School, Herbert Hoover and Crescenta Valley.
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