Andy Wahl introduced Kevin Schlegel and members of the Robotics team as an example of one of the Wonderful Things in School these days. We tend to hear only the bad news these days and the robotics Team represents one of the positives in education. This program engages the students so much it is hard to keep them out of the building! The students learn much more than making robots. They are responsible for fundraising and promoting the program. They learn how to speak to others over the phone and in public forums.
The program started in 2008 and is now one of 3,790 teams worldwide. There are 22 members and 14 mentors, some of whom are former team members as well as those from local businesses. All teams receive specifics of competitions on the same day and have 6 weeks to design, build and test their bots. Students need to be self-motivated and willing to try new things. Students put in hundreds of hours in the course of the program. What a great hands on program for our students to learn real world skills.
Zoe Bird, Zach Johnson, Mr. Kevin Schlegel and Alex Wadsworth
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Visiting students Olivia Cotterman, Jade Carroll ,Nacho and Joe Christman
Guests: Speakers Kevin Schlegel-teacher, Zoe Bird, Zach Johnson and Alex Wadsworth
Students Jade Carroll, Olivia Cotterman, Joe Christman and Nacho
Guests bob Daly and visiting Rotarian Meg Huff
Thoughts and Prayers none except hoping Tom Breen gets a supervisor job so he can return to Rotary full time
Birthdays: Dick Kirchhoff turned 94! Leslie had a birthday on March 24
Anniversaries: Marty celebrated the one year anniversary of son Luke’s heart transplant
Fines and Happy bucks:
Marty is happy to be leaving for Italy with the Select Choir, Luke’s good health, a great Murder Mystery and how Rotary brings people of different skills together like Autumn Sloan doing the illustrations for Jim Bush’s new book and Dianne doing the editing
Bob Sloan was happy for the Murder Mystery and the donation of $500 from the VFW Auxilliary to Camp ONSEYAWA. Bob also paid a fine for a new car
Dianne was happy no one was hurt in Bob’s accident, as well as for Autumn’s pat in Jim’s book and for the Murder Mystery
Leslie was happy for the Mystery and the Joint Rotary Lions meeting
Mark was happy for the impending birth of his new granddaughter
Brian was happy for the Mystery and a trip to Myrtle Beach where he got to fish with his father.
Maurina was sad that a tree fell on her cottage just before getting ready to sell it. She fined herself for missing the board meeting after asking for time to discuss a couple items there
Pat thought the joint Rotary Lions meeting was awesome and enjoyed seeing Rotarians from other clubs at the Murder Mystery
Announcements:
The club donated $250 to the Middle School Leadership team for the Pal-Mac Special Olympics
Joan announced a steak dinner at Historic Palmyra May 4
The Board is working on New Member expectations. Any suggestions are appreciated
The Camp ONSEYAWA golf tourney is June 8th
Vicky, Kim C and Leslie volunteered items for the auction
