You’ve seen him hop on boxes, run across a field and execute backflips with the precision of a professional gymnast. Perhaps it seems only natural that Atlas — the humanoid robot and YouTube sensation created and periodically updated on video by tech company Boston Dynamics — has begun mastering another sophisticated form of human movement: […]
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Perloff Family Fund offers grants to Maine public schools
ELLSWORTH — The Perloff Family Fund of the Maine Community Foundation will accept applications for four grant programs that benefit public schools in Maine. One-year Fast Track Grants of up to $3,000 are available for all areas of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Applications for the 2018-2019 school year are available and close June 30. STEM4ME […]
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Oxford Hills robotics team invited to California for second consecutive year
PARIS — Pipe Patrol, the Oxford Hills Homeschool Robotics team, has been invited to represent Maine at the FIRST Lego League California International Open in Carlsbad California. The competition among teams from across the country is set for May 18 to 20. It’s the second consecutive year the team has been invited to the competition. […]
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Area robotics teams racing into space this weekend
LEWISTON — Forty teams of high school students from New England, including those from Jay, Farmington, Gray-New Gloucester and Auburn, entered their first day of robotics competitions at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Friday morning. The Pine Tree Regional FIRST Robotics Competition has teams forming alliances to compete in a long-distance airship race. Students must […]
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RSU 9 budget frozen for third year
FARMINGTON — For the third year in a row, the Regional School Unit 9 budget has been frozen because of unbudgeted expenses connected to students moving into the district who require special services. Superintendent Tom Ward said Tuesday that he froze the budget in early December 2016. The unbudgeted expense is $300,000. It is the […]
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RSU 9 forms FIRST competitive robot team
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a robotics club at the Mt. Blue Campus, Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday. Mitchell Guillaume, a senior at Mt. Blue High School, approached Richard Wilde, a computer technology teacher at Foster Career and Technical Education Center, about being a mentor for a FIRST […]
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Black named SMHS assistant principal
LIVERMORE FALLS — James Black of Wilton was hired as Spruce Mountain High School assistant principal/athletic director by the Regional School Unit 73 board Thursday evening. Black has served in a similar position at Mt. Abram High School in Salem Township. He has also taught social studies and served on the RSU 9 board, based […]
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Spruce Mountain freshman’s robot arm the toast of Colisee robotics competition
LEWISTON — The Colisee was brimming with finely engineered robots Friday morning, but Spruce Mountain High School freshman Bryan Riley’s was the coolest. Riley was on hand to help cheer on his team — Spruce Mountain Area Robotics — at the third annual Pine Tree Regionals. The contest pits high school engineers and their robots […]
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Robots rumble in New England competition in Lewiston
LEWISTON — With the Colisee ice swapped out for robot-friendly floors, the city welcomed nearly 1,000 students, their families and supporters to a weekend of technological competition. The FIRST Robotics Maine Pine Tree District returned to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Friday, the second time the Twin Cities has hosted the event, which combines high-tech […]
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Robotics team gets donation and pays it forward
JAY — Encouraging high school students to turn their interest in science into careers is one of the goals of the Maine Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE). And many of the students on the Spruce Mountain Area Robotics Team (SMART) are well on their way toward doing that. The team received a $1,000 donation from […]