Wissahickon High School’s Robot Advances
Philadelphia, PA — The FIRST Robotics Philly Regional is taking place at Temple University. Fifty-nine high schools from the East Coast are competing in the Lunacy game. NASA works together with the FIRST organization to design each year’s game rules. This year a special surface was designed for the floor and [...]
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PROWESS FOR BUILDING
TEENS FROM PHILADELPHIA AREA EXHIBIT PROWESS FOR BUILDING, DESIGN AND STRATEGY AT FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION
Students Learn Mechanics and Maturity, Design and Determination From Professional Mentors at Philadelphia FIRST Regional, March 20th and March 21st
PHILADELPHIA, PA– High school students from 8 states and 46 area schools have been tasked with the challenge and excitement of designing [...]
Ron Paul: Earmarks Don’t Add Up
Texas Straight Talk – March 16, 2009
A Weekly Column – Rep. Ron Paul (R) – TX 14
Earmarks seem to be the hot topic this week, and as a fiscal conservative I am dismayed so many people deliberately distort the earmarking process and grandstand to make political points. It is an easy thing to do with [...]
Wake Up World!
The World According to Monsanto – JUST SAY NO!
Imagine
Texas Straight Talk
A weekly column
Congressman Ron Paul (R) – TX 14
Published 03/09/2009 – 12:42 p.m. EST
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were [...]
Daisy Fever Spreading Like a Weed
San Diego, CA — In their first trip to the Western Regional FIRST competition, the robot from Ambler, PA is breaking ground. The Ambler / Wissahickon robot, Miss Daisy, proved to be force to reckon with.
In one of the most exciting sporting events these kids have ever seen, Miss Daisy bloomed advancing through [...]
What Would You Pay?
San Diego, CA — What would you pay for an experience like this? Kids from all over the place have landed at the San Diego Sports Arena to do battle with robots. The FIRST Organization offers students a unique opportunity. Plenty of parents would pay hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for [...]
Local employee of Henkels and McCoy receives international award
Henkels & McCoy, Inc., headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce the selection of William H. Boell as a 2009 inductee into The International Lineman’s Museum and Hall of Fame. Boell, of Maple Glen, joined Henkels & McCoy in 1958 as an apprentice lineman, rising through the ranks to his present position of [...]
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Robots Drop Their Bolts & Go Nuts
San Diego, CA — The first day of the FIRST Western Regional competition got under way this morning at the San Diego Sports Arena. But, it wasn’t without some tense moments late into last evening. The two teams traveling the furthest distance, the Brazilian team and the Wissahickon, PA team, had to overcome [...]
Robots Take Over the San Diego Sports Arena
San Diego, CA — Q: How can a bunch of kids take over the San Diego Sports Arena? A: With robots.
How can these kids gain the knowledge and money necessary to build robots… real robots? The FIRST Robotics foundation is the vision of world renowned inventor, Dean Kamen. Though Mr. Kamen [...]
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