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Friday, April 29, 2022
Volume 18 • Issue No. 17
York HS Team Going to Robotics World Championship
YHS VEX Robotics Team 5156D (left to right) Cam Dalton, Ben Bokskanski, and Hunter Pruett.
YORK York High School’s VEX Robotics Team 5156D is headed to the World VEX Robotics Championship. The team qualified after their performance at Maine’s State Championship in South Portland on March 5, where they took second place in skills and earned the Inspire Award from the judges. They are one of only seven teams from Maine and the sole one from York county to qualify. This team of high school seniors Cam Dalton, builder, Ben Bokskanski, driver, and
Hunter Pruett, programmer, is a seriously enthusiastic and dedicated team that has competed in all four of their high school years and now qualified for two world championships. They have been mentored by supportive coaches Linda Mackaman and Kristen Berube since their freshman year. They will travel to Dallas, TX, May 4-7 to compete against hundreds of teams from the US and other parts of the world. VEX Robotics is a robotics program for elementary through university students, and a subset of Innovation First International.
The VEX Robotics competitions and programs are managed by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (REC). In April 2018, VEX Robotics Competition was named the largest robotics competition in the world by Guinness World Records. The trio’s fellow York robotics team members are hosting a viewing party to cheer them on. Anyone can tune in to the competition on the website, roboticseducation.org. York High School is proud of this team’s drive and hard work and wish them the very best at Worlds.
Eliot Launches Community Solar Partnership ELIOT This Earth Month, the Town of Eliot is launching an initiative to improve community sustainability, help residents save on electric bills, and jumpstart the success of the town’s nonprofit Eliot Connects. The Town of Eliot announced recently that it is partnering with Ampion Renewable Energy, a Community Solar company, to enable residents and businesses to subscribe to clean energy from local solar projects. Every new, approved Eliot
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resident who subscribes to Community Solar through this initiative will get a $100 Visa gift card. Additionally, Ampion will donate $100 to Eliot Connects, an organization dedicated to bringing community members together and supporting the wellbeing of the Eliot community. “We’re excited to partner with Ampion to offer this opportunity to sign up for clean, renewable energy at no additional cost,” said Mike Sullivan, the Eliot Town Manager. “The Town of Eliot wholeheartedly supports
STATEWIDE The first week of May is Teacher Appreciation Week. Students, parents, and school districts around the country take the week to celebrate the achievements of teachers, especially on National Teacher Appreciation Day, which falls on May 3 this year. Teaching is a challenging, timeconsuming, and often underappreciated and underfunded profession that has a deep and powerful impact on our society. According to National Today, teaching is one of the oldest professions. The first known private teacher was Confucius in the fourth century B.C. The cultures of Ancient Greece placed great value on educating children, as did the Pilgrims in the 1600s. By the 19th century, politicians in the US
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this initiative and we strongly encourage you to sign up.” Maine’s Community Solar program enables residents and businesses to subscribe to clean energy without purchasing or installing solar panels. Through Community Solar, utility customers can subscribe to a share of clean energy generated from an off-site solar farm. That energy nearly or completely offsets the energy generation charges on their utility bills each month. In Maine, the subscriber is billed at a fixed 15% discount for their
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and Europe began to believe that education was needed for political order, leading to the widespread creation of various elementarythrough-college educational systems, both public and private. National Today goes on to write “Though the origins of Teacher Appreciation Week are somewhat murky, it’s clear that it was in 1944 that an Arkansas school
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teacher, Mattye White Woodridge, wrote to politicians and educational professionals about the demand for a day to appreciate teachers. However, it wasn’t for nearly a decade until the idea was introduced to Congress by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1953, she was successful in convincing lawmakers to adopt the day.” However, Congress only recognized it for that year. Later, the National Education Association (NEA), along with its Kansas and Indiana state affiliates, lobbied Congress to create a national day celebrating teachers. Congress declared March 7, 1980, as National Teacher Day; but, again, for that year only. The NEA and its affiliates continued to observe Teacher Day on the first Tuesday in March until 1985, when the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) established Teacher See TEACHERS page 6 . . .
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