Different methodologies are yielding different results on competing lists of the nation's top public high schools.

Four schools in the Triangle made the top 100 of Newsweek magazine’s “America’s Best High Schools 2012” list that was released this week. A total of 11 Triangle schools made the top 1,000 school list.

In contrast, only three schools in the entire state were in the top 1,000 in the U.S. News & World Report list released this month. Broughton High School in Raleigh was the only Triangle school in the top 1,000 on that list at 966.

A News 14 Carolina film crew followed two teams of North Carolina high school students earlier this year, as they built robots for the NC FIRST Robotics competition.

The resulting documentary, which took four months to film, will air Saturday on the local cable news channel.

The N.C. School of Science and Mathematics is inviting the public to its “Election Colloquia,” which opens Tuesday with Duke University political scientist Kerry L. Haynie speaking on “The role of minorities in the election process.”

Other programs are:

* Sept. 30, Michael Munger (left), Libertarian Party candidate for governor and Duke political scientist, “The role of third parties in elections”;

* Oct. 14, Christopher Ellis, N.C. State University political scientist, “The status of major parties in the election.”

All programs are in the NCSSM auditorium, off Maryland Avenue near Club Boulevard, at 7 p.m.