Robotics team has a winner
The Examiner
Members of First Robotics Independence, which is the robotics team of the Independence School District, recently presented and demonstrated their robot Rogue Wire to the Independence branch of the American Association of University Women.
The team is composed of students from all three Independence School District high schools. They designed and built their robot to compete in the 2020 robotics competition season. Funding for the team came from the ISD Foundation along with grants.
In the course of creating, building and competing with the robot, the students gained practical skills such as machining, CAD and computer programming. They also improved other skills such as critical thinking, leadership and teamwork.
Santa Ynez Valley Youth in Service honoree Olivia Berman is full of gratitude: for her community, for her 4-H club, for her family and her school.
âMy community has made me who I am for sure. All my 4-H leaders have been volunteers who have dedicated so many hours of their lives to make sure weâre prepared for what life has in store for us. The people in my community are beyond amazing, and they have made me an image of what they are,â Berman said.
A graduate of Dunn School in Los Olivos, Berman has been a core member of Lucky Clover 4-H Club for nearly a decade.
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The Coastal Georgetown branch of the American Association of University Women (CGAAUW), in pre-COVID times, met monthly at a luncheon meeting. When the branchâs luncheons switched to Zoom meetings, the membership established an initiative of Hungry KidsâHungry Minds, partnering with the Community Resource Center in Rehoboth Beach (CRC). CGAAUW members are donating their âlunch moneyâ formerly spent at monthly meetings to the CRC to purchase grocery gift cards.
The branchâs website has a âDonateâ button for their members to give to this cause. According to Glenda Risch, Policy Committee chair, âThe Hungry KidsâHungry Minds initiative recognizes the need of many families with school children who are food insecure. Research has shown hungry children have more difficulty learning.â
Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America
December 14, 2020
In 1993, the New York City Fire Department issued a curious order, namely that no pictures could be taken of Brenda Berkman, a 15-year veteran of the force, on or off duty, inside or outside a firehouse. This proved to be one last gasp in the protest against women in what had been an all-male preserve for the department’s 117-year history.
The fight had started much earlier. In 1971, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson issued an order calling on all federal contractors to take affirmative action to eliminate sex discrimination. That order had little effect, and in 1977 the Office of Federal Contract Compliance announced that it planned “to get tough” with building and construction contractors who failed to seek out and train women for work on everything from steel girders to bricklaying. According to Weldon Rougeau, the head of the office, parents should start talking to their daughte