Fourteen teams from Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania met on Sunday, March 30 at Blue Mountain Academy (BMA) in Hamburg, Pa., for the regional Robotics Challenge. The Pennsylvania Conference-sponsored event drew participants from 11 Seventh-day Adventist schools and three community clubs.
Allegheny West Conference (AWC) teachers did more than mull over educational theory at their recent in-service session. As a matter of fact, for most of the day, teachers tinkered, measured, programmed, tested and received a crash course in robotics.
Twelve-year-old Ashley Fong was excited to receive a letter from the president of the United States. In the letter the president congratulated her and encouraged her to keep up her good grades.