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  • Robotics program moving ahead

    Mackenzie Ellis and Lexie Whitaker, Student Correspondents|Updated Jan 26, 2012

    The Lind robotics team had a week off due to snow days and is back in action this week. The media side received our PLATT electrical grant that we applied for. This will give us $500 to use toward our build project. To show our thanks the business side has been writing thank you letters to the people and companies that have given us money or assistance. We have also been in charge of putting together the basketball hoop that the robot will use to practice. The engineering side has been working on the electrical aspects and...

  • Students prepare for exciting new experience

    Mackenzie Ellis, Student correspondent|Updated Dec 15, 2011

    This year the math reasoning class and the AG 3/4 classes at Lind High School have combined together to participate in the First Robotics Competition. The FRC is a contest where we are given six weeks to design, build, test, and fix a robot to do a set task. We will not know the task until Jan. 7 which is our kick off in Cheney. Until this date we have split our class into a marketing team and an engineering team. The marketing team is in charge of the media and public relations, spirit, a historian and fundraising. The...