Awards & Honors
Why should you choose the Science and Engineering Magnet for your high school career?
The School of Science and Engineering has acquired many awards and honors over the years.
The following is a short list for your consideration of our success:
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SEM named US News Gold Medal School (December 4, 2008). Ranked #18 out of 21,000 public high schools across the nation, and #1 in Texas.
- Siemens Award for Advanced Placement (2008 Award Recipient)
- Number 1 school in USA for the overall number of African American and Hispanic Students passing the AP Calculus Exams
- Ranked #4 by Newsweek magazine as one of the best public high schools in the USA May 2008.
- 2005 No Child Left Behind National Blue Ribbon Award winner
- Robotics Voice Recognition Science Fair Project placed fourth in World.
- With only 400 students in the entire school, we are in the top 10 Texas High Schools for passing numbers on the AP Calculus Exam for all schools of ANY size.
- We have one of only five working electron microscopes in high schools throughout the USA.
- Fast-Track in math, science, English and computer science
- We have been adopted by the University of Texas at Dallas Engineering Department and adopted and sponsored by Texas Instruments.
- Many of the teaching staff of SEM have had “real world” jobs in research and engineering that give us the ability to answer the questions of where scientific principles are used.
- We have one PhD and the majority of faculty membershave Master’s degrees. Several of our teachers have taught at the college or university level.
- We have major industrial adopters that offer college internships for engineering majors, including Texas Instruments.
- In 2008, our graduating seniors were offered a total of over $8 million dollars in scholarships.