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Robotics Team Wins Regionals, Goes on to Nationals The Woodlawn High School Panthrobotics robotics team, with the help of two other teams on its competing alliance team, took over at the Bayou Regional FIRST Robotics Competition and won the competition held in Westwego, La, in March. The alliance team of Woodlawn High School, St. Patrick Catholic High School of Biloxi and Gulfport High School Technology Center worked together to win the overall Bayou Regional FIRST Robotics Award. The team also walked away Woodlawn High’s Robotics Team with the Judges Award. In April, the team moved on to the World Championship in St. Louis, where team members and the robot, Dunker, won four out of 10 national games and ranked 59th out of 88 teams in the division. They competed against a total of 350 teams nationally. Panthrobotics is one of 500 U.S. high-school teams J.C. Penney is sponsoring to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), an annual event for high school students to compete against each other and test their robotics skills. To prepare for competitions, the team was given a box of parts, an objective and six weeks to build the robot. BRMHS Continues Makeover, New Claiborne to Open! Renovations of Baton Rouge Magnet High School continue, and the makeover will retain all the nuances and charm of the older school while updating its interior look and technology and making expansions. The Government Street site, which was built in 1926, will re-open in August 2012 after a $45.9-million expansion and renovation. Until then, students will make use of the former Lee High School campus on Lee Drive. In addition, work on building the new Claiborne Elementary School is almost complete, and preparations are being made for a grand opening and celebration in August -- just in time for the 2011-2012 school year. An old mural found beneath the wall work in one section of BRMHS Magnet Schools: Tops in Nation Again! Magnet Schools of America (MSA) has once again singled out four East Baton Rouge schools for awards recognizing their curriculum as a standard of excellence for others in the nation. Baton Rouge Foreign Language Academic Immersion Magnet School, Sherwood Middle Magnet School and Westdale Heights Academic Magnet School each were selected for an MSA Magnet School of Excellence Award, MSA’s top Merit Award. In addition, Baton Rouge Center for Visual & Performing Arts (BRCVPA) received the coveted Magnet School of Distinction Award. 6
Moonbuggy Madness Ta’Mara Adams and Steven Bradford (pictured, left to right) pedaled their hearts out April 1 and 2 in Huntsville, Ala., and helped the A Team place 18th in the world at the high school level for Scotlandville Magnet High School at the international 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race. The event, held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, also featured the school’s B Team and its 29th-place vehicle. Scotlandville High’s teams were two of more than 80 from across the world and the only ones from the state of Louisiana to be in the race. Competitors arrived from as far away as Russia, India and Ethiopia. As in years past, students were required to design a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems similar to those faced by the original NASA Moonbuggy team. Each vehicle must be human powered and carry two students over half a mile of simulated lunar terrain. WHS Food Prep, Ag Science Classes Partner in Learning Chickens seem to be creating a unique partnership between two educational programs at Woodlawn High School. The school’s ProStart food prep classes are learning how to cook chickens and eggs. The meat comes from Wal- Mart, but the eggs come from the school’s hen house, which is managed by the school’s Agriculture Science classes and Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter members. Instructor and chef Steven Oubre (above with a student) has teamed up with Ag Science teacher Cade LeJeune in the newly revamped programs. Ag students (such as those pictured at left) learn how to raise and care for vegetables and chickens, and the Food Program utilizes the ingredients -- eggs for cakes and cookies and vegetables for stews and other treats. Students have made King Cakes and other goodies to sell to staff and students, and the Ag students have sold fresh eggs to the community, too. Funds are shared for programs, competitions and materials. Junior Achievement Hosts Financial Literacy Days More than 1,500 public school students participated in the Annual Financial Literacy Days at four schools May 3 and 4. The event was sponsored by The Society of Louisiana CPAs (LCPA) and Junior Achievement (JA) Greater Baton Rouge & Acadiana. East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden proclaimed May 4 LCPA-JA Financial Literacy Day and presented a proclamation at Riveroaks Elementary School. With the federal government struggling with its budget and hard economic times for families, this was an event where CPAs and concerned citizens joined forces to stimulate young minds about work readiness, entrepreneurship and money management. 7
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