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N/Warren Town and County News
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Norwalk Robotics Team Finds Great Success
Information and photos Nicci
The Norwalk Robe Warriors Gold (#14568) and Purple
(#12783) teams competed in the Clark League of First
Tech Challenge (I‘VI‘C) competition. Overall team Purple
placed first, while Gold placed third in their division.
The First Tech Challenge is a worldwide program for
promoting STEM experiences for youth, ages 7th to 12th
grade, but it is more than just robots. Norwalk’s robotics
team has been tackling tasks from designing,
engineering, and programming their robots, but they
have also been working on items like budgeting and
allocating resources for use throughout the year,
marketing, outreach, and communication skills. First
Tech Challenge is proven to encourage students to purse
education and careers in STEM-related fields, all while
enhancing their workolife skills. This is the second year
for Norwalk’s robotics program, and it has expanded into
a second team, which essentially doubled the number of
members able to participate. In their rookie year, the
team placed 23rd out of 1425 teams in the Northern
Region and want to use this experience to help them
reach the World Competition, which is held in Detroit in
April.
On January 19th, both Norwalk teams competed in
the League Championship in Nevada, Iowa. Both teams
finished the competition strong with Norwalk Gold
finishing in second place and Norwalk Purple finishing
in third. Unfortunately, only one team advanced to the
next round of tournaments. On February 2nd, N orwalk
RoboWarriors Gold competed at John Deere Financial
in Johnston in the FTC Super Qualifier. Norwalk had
another successful tournament finishing in second place
overall and in the process scored the fourth highest score
in the state this season. With their second-place finish
Norwalk RoboWarriors Gold is now qualified for the FTC
Iowa Championships on Feb. 22nd and Feb. 23 in
Coralville. Currently both Norwalk teams are ranked in
the top 10 of the State with Gold in 3rd and Purple in
6th. Norwalk RoboWarriors Gold is also ranked 92nd
out of 7400 teams nationwide.
Members of the Norwalk Robo Warriors team include:
Caleb Belden, Nick Bergan, Jamison Bice, Will Clarke,
Brett Dawson, Dakota Elings, Sydney Fisher, Trevor
Fisher, Trent Frederick, Hannah Groos, Olivia Lamb,
'Iyler Lamb, Maddy Lepley, Lex Marshall, Chloe Martin,
Derek Means, Eli Newland, Eva Newland, Tyler
Rewerts, Noah Schumacher, Adam Serck, Nick Serck,
Jaden Smith, Johnathan Tague Spencer Taylor, and
Tyler Wicker. The RoboWarrior mascots are Miranda
Lamb, Tyler Marshall, and AJ Clarke. Coaches include
Jeff Bergan, Jodie Irlmeier, and Tom Lamb.
For more information, you can email us at
robowarriors@norwalk.k12.ia.us, follow us on Facebook
at Robo__Warriors, or contact Jodie Irlmeier.
Iowa Public Television Premieres
Tradition and Valor: The Story Continues...
Iowa Public Television is releasing an updated
version of its popular 1994 documentary that explores
the impact of African-Americans in Iowa history.
Tradition and Valor: The Story Continues... presents
the original documentary’ 3 key events along with new
materials, including an extended interview with
Elaine Estes, the first African-American director of
the Des Moines Public Library. It will premiere on
Tuesday, February 18th at 8 p.m. on statewide IPTV.
IPTV’s 1994 documentary Tradition and Valor
chronicled the military service and civil rights
achievements of one prominent African-American
family from Iowa. Over five decades, members of the
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that shaped our state and nation. IPTV now
supplements the original documentary with a new
segment, Tradition and Valor: The Story Continues...,
in which the late Robert Morris, the program’s
producer, examines more about African-Americans
who made a difference in Iowa’s history.
“When Robert first approached IPTV, we knew this
story had to be told,” said Dave Miller, executive '
producer at IPTV. “The new interview sheds more
light on the often overlooked contributions of African-
American Iowans on state, national and global
history.”
Robert Morris passed away in February 2017 while
building on his original work alongside IPTV
producers. Tradition and Valor: The. Story
Continues... features an extended interview with
Elaine Estes conductedby Morris, as well as a new
introduction to the program with his daughter,
Jessica Morris.
“Iowa lost a valuable voice with the passing of
Robert Morris,” said Chuck Czech, IPTV manager of
local programming. “He was extremely
knowledgeable and passionate, and he focused his
energies in sharing stories that really mattered.”
Learn more at Iptv.org.
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