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economist suntribune education saturday may 4 2002 2fr unionvifle high students test their robot against the best by jessica rowlands special with three canadian champi onships under their belts the members of unionville high schools robotics team decided it was time to test their mettle against the best in the us the 33 students placed their faith in a remotecontrol robot designed and constructed earlier this year however due to mechanical problems the team lost in the quarter finals we basically won every award at canada first for inspiration and recognition of science and technology and wanted to try something new so we set our sights on florida where the us finals are held said jerry berridge a uhs com munication technology teacher the team plans to compete again next year over a six- week period nine girls and 24 boys grades 9 to oac spent about 35 hours per week creating the robot under the guidance of mr berridge and electronics teacher tom hopkins like all the robots entered in the first competi tion its designed to play zone zeal a twominute game with balls and nets i learned time management skills because we had a lot of work to do in a short time said grade 12 student tom fairley 17 more than 23000 was spent on production not including the 8000 entrance fee said mr berridge funding was raised it was function first form second for the robot designed by 33 students at unionville high school through local sponsors uhs viceprincipal reid wilshire helped by obtaining a loan from the school this project is definitely lead ing me into the technology field said 19yearold oac student amit arora it has showed me how to apply what ive learned in school to reallife situations part of the first team creat ed a website video 3d anima tion and documentation to pro mote first and the team the oac students taught me web design techniques said grade 9 student ruby ho 14 i learned how to communicate better and develop team work ing skills after brainstorming the team decided to construct a robot that moved the zone zeal nets in order to accumulate more points explained mr berridge we had the right design idea all along he said as the robots in the finals used this strategy four robots start on at each corner of a rectangular field the object is to obtain the most points by placing balls in the net dragging the net to the scoring zone and returning the robot to the starting point teams with the most points advance the competition was held at mississaugas hershey centre april 5 to 6 has teams from 650 canadian american and brazilian schools winning the competition is not necessarily the prize said mr berridge the prize is unit ing these schools to overcome an obstacle when help was needed most yo u cle i i vere d a hen tragedy struck the united states on september 1 1 f m states on september 11 you jm w delivered more than 16 million meals to emergency workers a place to stay to thousands forced from their homes financial help to families left suffering and 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because i know that if you are reading this you may be feeling just as miser able and desperate as i was only a year ago by stacey harrington- so whens your baby due my hus bands uncle asked staring at my bulging stom ach im not expecting i said my cheeks burning with shame when i got home i stared at my reflection in the mirror tears streamed down my cheeks it was true i was that fat i couldnt stop eating down like n yoyo stacey htirrhijtmi before hypnosis i had become overweight dur ing my first year of college i gained the freshman 15 my weight kept adding on from there in desperation i started dieting my weight went up and down like a yoyo i was desperate yet i couldnt stop eating i craved and binged every day id hide a sleeve of chips in my desk drawer i hid it for two reasons first i was already so overweight i didnt want people to sec me scarfing down pota to chips secondly i didnt want to share them i wanted them all to myself one day i saw a story in the newspaper about a 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