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Students and coaches recognized for wrestling, invention convention and robotics accomplishments
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Summary
The board honored student achievements: RUHS boys wrestling CIF championship, invention convention finalists (including students who advanced to nationals), and award-winning robotics teams and students from Alta Vista.
The April 21 Redondo Beach Unified School District board meeting highlighted student achievements across athletics and STEM.
The board recognized the Redondo Union High School boys wrestling team for earning the district’s first CIF championship; a presenter asked the coach and athletes to come forward for certificates and a group photo. A coach and assistant coaches thanked parents, staff and students for their work through the season.
At the Invention Convention presentation, district staff described that this year 69 inventions across all elementary, middle and high schools were entered and participated in the Southern Region competition; the district previously sent 11 inventions from RBUSD to nationals in Dearborn, Michigan. A second-grade student, Andrey Chen, described his inventions from kindergarten through second grade, including a pen to assist handwriting and earlier projects that placed in state and national competitions.
The board also heard from robotics teams supported by the Redondo Beach Education Foundation. Coach Scott Knauss introduced Alta Vista’s Robocats and students described lessons in persistence, teamwork, coding and design; staff noted teams will advance to regional competitions, with one invited competition in Houston mentioned.
Board members praised the students, coaches and volunteers and thanked parents and community volunteers for supporting extracurricular programs.
