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First Robotics Regional

Girard High School, along with Warren and Champion High Schools will compete in the Pittsburgh FIRST Robotics Regional on March 14-25 at the University of Pittsburgh and on March 20-21 at Cleveland State University. Chaney will also compete in Cleveland.
Each team will compete in 6-10 preliminary matches on Friday and Saturday morning, with the top eight teams selecting alliance partners to compete with in finals beginning on Saturday at 1 p.m.
The event provides plenty of excitement and cheering as 50 teams from ___ states compete in a game called " " during which robots circle the field (called a track) to score points and/or remove a ball from an overpass and hurdle the ball over the overpass to earn additional points. Points are also awarded each time a robot crosses the "finish" line on the track, but additional points are also scored for each ball the team pushes across the finish line.
Reporters can also walk through the pits where each of the over 50 teams has a pit where they work on their robots between rounds and discuss strategies with alliance partners for future matches.
There are now 5 robotics team in our area and Girard, Warren, Chaney and Champion are all founding members of the Northeast Ohio FIRST Robotics Alliance (NEOFRA), a coalition aimed at sharing resources and best practices, conducting joint training for team members, and promoting and growing FIRST in other schools throughout Northeast Ohio. Additionally Tim Ryan has appropriated $186,000 to enable other areas schools to start teams.
Girard and Warren captured the 2007 Buckeye Regional and all 3 teams won several other awards last season.
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) challenges teams and their mentors to design, build and program a robot in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. FIRST rewards students for excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and maturity, entrepreneurship, and the ability to overcome obstacles. More information about FIRST can be found at www.usfirst.org.
Teams compete against over 2000 teams worldwide from the US, Canada, Brazil and South Africa at over 30 regionals with local teams competing against 50-80 other teams in regional at locations such at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Virgina, and Michigan.
The World Championships, which all four local teams have attended in past years, are currently being held in Atlanta, GA and all teams have also competed at World Championships in Orlando and Houston.
The Pittsburgh event is at the Peterson Event Center and the Buckeye Event is at the Wolstein Center.
For additional information, contact Judy Barber, Girard Advisor, at 330-720-6123.

Currie's Proud Board for February

Kindergarten-Stephen Boyle, Nyah Chalker, Vincent Chieffo, Ethan Hall, Demetrios Kakiou, Isabella Kakiou, James Koehler, Emily Ladich, Braelynn Lewis, Sarah McChesney, Seth McMillion, T.J. Moskal, Alex O'Brien, Huntar Schoenfeld, Dana Spagnoletta, Hanna Tillery, Olivia Vaupel.
First Grade-Sadie Bertok, Leah Bockelman, Chassidy Cummings, Joshua Farr, Conner Ferry, Michael Fordeley, Ryan Gates, Madison Hayes, Elaina Jamison, Samantha Jones, Jake Kirby, Makayla Maldonado, Miranda Marinkovich, Zen Mazey, Katelyn McCarthy, Jacob Miller, George Poyssick, Carlie Pratt, kobe Sabulsky, Alyssa Scarnecchia, Gabby Shimko, Emily Sneizik, Nick Spano, Butchie Strama, Hunter Thomas, Makayla VanDyke, Megan Wajda.
Second Grade-Bobbi Bernhard, Dillon Canter, Rebecca Gallatin, Megan haynie, Alyssa Henderson, Jessica Irwin, Jamie Jackson, Tyler Koeppen, Hanna Medved, Thomas Sampson, Kystal Shepherd, Emily Strama, Alexis Wolfe.

Hubbard High School Lady Eagles fastpitch clinic

A fastpitch clinic will be given by the HLE Softball Team and Coaches. The clinic is for ages 8 and older. The clinic will focus on Defensive and Offensive fundamentals, drills and techniques. It will be held Saturday, March 22 and 29 from 9 a.m.-noon, registration will be from 8:30-9 a.m. at the Hubbard High School Gymnasium. The cost is $10 per player and covers both weekends and a T-Shirt Family cost is $25 with three or more players. Contact Coach McKee at 330-402-4716 or 330-534-7016 or Coach Miller at 330-534-0249.

Brunstetter graduates from Wright State University

On Saturday Nov. 17 Jessica Brunstetter graduated from Wright State with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She along with 1,373 other class mates conferred there degrees at WSU's Nutter Center.

Trumbull Chapter Parents of Murdered Children meeting

The Trumbull County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children meets every third Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the American Red Cross Building on Mahoning Ave. in Warren. For more information call 330-870-0142 or
1-724-342-9778.