Edwards AFB News

  • DHS robotics teams seeking volunteers

    The Desert High School Robotics program held an open house to recruit new members and volunteers May 27 at the Center of Excellence. Both teams are seeking mentors to volunteer for the FIRST Robotics program in time for the 2015-2016 FIRST Tech Challenge season. The teams need mentors with a wide

  • DHS softball ends season in playoffs

    The Desert High School Scorpions softball team battled, but ultimately ended up one run short losing 11-10 in extra innings to Katella High School from Anaheim. The game was part of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 6 playoffs. The Scorpions finished 15-9 on the

  • DHS student awarded DAR bronze medal

    The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) has presented awards to ROTC members since 1967. Each year, the Antelope Valley chapter works with eight high schools in the area to present JROTC students with a Bronze Medal. The medals are awarded to cadets that have

  • DHS student selected for Air Force Academy

    Congressman Kevin McCarthy May 22 announced that seven of the students that he nominated from the 23rd Congressional District will attend one of the United States Service Academies in the fall. Of those seven, Tyler Myers of Desert High School has been selected to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy.

  • DHS varsity softball player signs with UC-Riverside

    A Desert High School senior took the next step of her life as she signed a national letter of intent May 30 to play softball for a Division I college. Voted by her peers as the most athletic female of the senior class, Dawn Brodersen received an athletic scholarship from the University of

  • DHS wins in county science fair, heads to state

    Sixteen students from Desert High School took the top spots when they participated in the Kern County Science Fair at the Rabobank Convention Center in Bakersfield, Calif., on March 21. The students received several awards including four first-place finishes, eight in second place and four in third

  • DHS wrestling team competes for another season thanks to volunteer coaches

    Working and living on a military base, the people that make up the Edwards populace are no strangers to the frequent moving that accompanies military life. The Desert High Scorpions varsity wrestling team found themselves in a pickle when their coaches received orders for a permanent change of