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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
CTC students prepare for bot battle
Seniors in the county’s precision machining program at the career tech center will compete again more than 40 other teams in a “bot” competition tomorrow.
“Bots” are mechanical warriors pitted against one another and popularized by the “Battle Bots” television show. The Springfield-Clark Career Tech Center’s machining program created their first ever “bot” for a competition last spring and will compete with that same machine tomorrow at the Dayton Tooling and Manufacturing Association’s Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Show,
At their first competition the team’s “bot” won three of four matches. As you can see from the picture above (courtesy of staff photographer Marshall Gorby) the team’s bot is pretty simple.
“As ugly as it is, that’s it,” instructor Mike Whitmer joked.
It works by wedging underneath it’s opponent so the other “bot” can’t move, the students who worked on the project said.
Look for more in tomorrow’s paper.
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North, Wittenberg, Urbana University: Haunted?
With Oct. 31 fast approaching, I went looking last night for haunted locales in Clark and Champaign County. In the tales I found, I wasn’t surprised to see that there were a few schools: North High School, Myers Hall at Wittenberg University and Brown Hall at Urbana University.
I don’t know why but it seems like schools always get the haunted reputation. The middle school I attended was purported by many an adolescent to be haunted by a former gym teacher.
And I am an Ohio University grad, which is well-known for its ghosts (and, yes, it’s Halloween party). An episode of Scariest Places on Earth was filmed at OU shortly before I attended and there was even a course called “Haunted Athens,” though I’m told the instructor heavily disputed many of the show’s claims. I lived on the reportedly haunted fourth floor of Wilson Hall (perhaps the most famous of OU’s several dorms reported to be haunted) my sophomore year and I have been to The Ridges, formerly the Athens Mental Health Hospital. I have no ghostly tales to tell from any of those experiences, however.
Though North High School is gone, it’s still haunted by the rumor that it was built on the site of a children’s graveyard. The story goes that the cemetery was moved when the school was built but a couple graves were “lost” and those children haunted the school’s auditorium.
The Rockway School on Route 40 is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a young boy who died in a fire there.
Wittenberg’s Myers Hall is supposed to be haunted by a horse who died in the building when it was a Civil War hospital.
And a female ghost with a flowery perfume is said to call Urbana’s Brown Hall home.
Any alumni have tales to share about these schools? What’s your favorite spooky Clark or Champaign county locale?
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Local program seeking scholarship donations
Springfield High School Scholarships Program is accepting contributions to fund scholarships for 2009 Springfield High School graduates. No donation is too small and all contributions are tax deductible, according to a press release from the program.
Send donations directly to: SHS Scholarships, c/o The Springfield Foundation, 4 W. Main St., Suite 825, Springfield, OH 45502.
For more information visit www.SHSscholarships.com or contact Jack Hutslar, SHS Class of 1957, at (800) 767-4916.http://springfieldnewssun.com/education
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