The founding board members established the Daisy Education Corporation because of a shared belief that excelling in math and science would prepare America's youth to achieve success in college, the workplace, and the 21st century.
The founding members recognized that students in the United States were lagging behind their peers from other countries and that schools offering a rigorous, skill-level curriculum that focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) would provide the foundations to graduate independent thinkers who are capable of innovation and prepared to take leadership roles.
In 2012 Stan Palasek became the first Arizona student since 2007 to be awarded First Place at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his work in molecular evolution.
View and Nicholas were the first Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson students to achieve these national honors while attending the school.
[7] In 2016 and 2017, Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller today gave special recognition to the members of Sonoran Science Academy's FIRST Robotics team, CRUSH 1011, for winning the 2016 Colorado FIRST Robotics Team Award in Denver, Colorado and as 2017 FRC Houston World Champion.
After two tough matches, CRUSH and our alliance of 973, Greybots, 2928, Viking Robotics, and 5499, The Bay Orangutans, were crowned the Houston World Champions (first team from Arizona to do so).