Posted on: Thursday, April 7, 2005
EDUCATION BRIEFS
Robotics meet set for April 16
Advertiser Staff
The Botball Educational Robotics Program will have its regional tournament April 16 at the Hawai'i Convention Center.
This year's challenge is to program robots to earn points by putting a BeanieBot toy and an orange poof ball into a "yard," rubbish into a trash bin and recyclables into a recycling container. The robots will compete against one other on a playing field the size of a pingpong table.
The robots operate only by computer programming designed by the students; no remote controls are used.
More than 300 students from 25 schools and youth organizations across Hawai'i and one from Japan will compete from 8 a.m.
Awards will be presented at 5:30 p.m.
For more information about the program, visit www.botball.org.
Wilson Elementary School pupils, led by fourth-graders Maile Greenhill and June Kim, have collected and donated $3,765 to help victims of December's tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
The children donated $1,850 to the East-West Center's tsunami fund and $1,915 to the American Red Cross tsunami relief fund.
Sacred Hearts Academy will hold the "Best of Hawai'i" Superfair tomorrow and Saturday.
The annual fund-raiser features Extreme Fun rides, skill games, an old-fashioned country store, issuing of Keiki IDs, a white elephant sale, a silent auction and food booths.
The fair will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. both days.
Maryknoll High School's fine arts students will perform "Godspell" tomorrow and Saturday in Rogers Hall on campus.
The performance is open to the public, with tickets available at the door. Prices are $5 for adults and $3 for students.
Seating starts at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 7 p.m.
More than 300 children will participate in the Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival at McKinley High School on Saturday.
The festival, a partnership between Chevron Texaco and the Honolulu District, encourages pupils in Grades 3-6 to develop verbal communication skills and techniques, express themselves through effective and creative speech, show creativity and gain self-confidence through oral communication. The event is not competitive, but the children will be given feedback for self-improvement from a panel of volunteer judges.
Presentations by pupils begin at 8:30 a.m. The awards ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. in the McKinley gymnasium.
Wilson pupils donate $3,765
Fund-raiser fair at Sacred Hearts
Maryknoll cast to do 'Godspell'
Speech festival this weekend
