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2007 » Issue 37, Published on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 » Schools

Robotics competitors seek new team members

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The seventh annual Los Altos Robotics FIRST LEGO League program is looking for new team members.

The league introduces students in grades 4 to age 14 to engineering, science, math and technology concepts in a hands-on way. The league pairs an academic challenge with a sportslike playing field in which participants create autonomous robots. Each fall, teams of four to six players have eight weeks to design, construct, program and test their robots. They compete in tournaments, running robots in time trials and demonstrating technological creativity.

Los Altos Robotics is a community organization that hosts the Los Altos competition, helps with team formation and provides a training session for coaches. Last year, 27 Los Altos area teams with more than 140 local students participated.

For more information, visit www.LosAltosRobotics.org.

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For the first time in five years, a public elementary school, Gardner Bullis, opened its doors last week in Los Altos Hills. For some, it was, metaphorically speaking, the last stitch removed from the old wound following the closure of the original Bullis-Purissima School in 2003.

For others, including the diehards who formed the successful Bullis Charter School, the sting of the Bullis closure lingers. But our sense is that for most Hills residents not part of the Loyola School coverage area, the opening of Gardner Bullis means the resurrection of a long-sought-after neighborhood school and the community benefits that come with it.

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