An Evening with
Mother Goose
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The
Kosik: A strong
belief in the hu-
man connection—
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Robbins sets
shutout mark for
TU softball—
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SEGway News
Volume 1, Number 28
Serving South East Grant County
April 13, 2017
A Good News Ventures publication
PhyXTGears earns a spot at World Championships
Muncie Delaware Ro-
botics, known as the
PhyXTGears team 1720, is
one of only 14 teams from
Indiana to earn a spot at
the FIRST World Cham-
pionship Competition in
St. Louis, Missouri. They
earned their spot as the
top-ranked team in Indiana
after finishing as a finalist
in the Indiana State Cham-
pionship Competition this
past weekend and winning
the Innovation in Control
Award for the program-
ming on their robot.
The students are excited
to be going to the compe-
tition, which takes place
April 26-29, and are busy
in the shop preparing for
the big event. John Pug-
sley, the robot's driver,
said, “It is really exciting
to be able to go and com-
pete with other teams in
the world and see how they
solved the same problems
we did.”
This is Pugsley's second
time going to the World
Championship with the
team. “It was something we
weren't expecting in 2015
but this year we think we
have a shot at being pretty
competitive,” he said.
The team is proud to
be an educational asset to
the community, especially
since the local school dis-
tricts are unable to host
an organization such as
PhyXTGears. It teaches
students valuable work and
life skills such as engineer-
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ming, business, public re-
lations, computer animated
design, animation and
woodworking in a hands-
on, collaborative environ-
ment. Their success shows
the potential of our local
students when given the
opportunity to learn.
PhyXTGears welcomes
students from all schools
within a six-county radius
of Delaware County, in-
cluding three homeschool
students and two mentors
from Upland, including the
team's lead mentor, Mike
Koch.
Students enjoy working
together on this collabora-
tive environment, learning
things they can't learn in
a classroom. Pugsley said,
“The skills I've learned is
not just technical skills, but
I've also learned soft skills
such as teamwork, public
speaking, and learning to
share ideas with others.”
The team is keeping
costs at a minimum so stu-
dents can afford to attend.
The group will sleep on
the floor in a church, bring
sack lunches and carpool.
Because event registration
and related fees are high,
even with these cost-cut-
ting measures, they are in
need of financial help in
order to meet all the costs.
The team has a GoFundMe
page at https://www.go-
fundme.com/muncie-in-ro-
botics-victory-tour to help
raise funds.
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Good Friday service set
Every year for the past
15 years the churches in
Upland have joined to-
gether for a joint Good Fri-
day service. This revives a
practice that was common
back in the ’50s and ’60s
and maybe even later than
that. Pastors from all of
the area churches are in-
vited to speak and the lo-
cation moves around from
year to year among the
participating churches.
This year the communi-
ty is invited to join us for
worship at Upland Friends
Church, 1111 S Main St,
Upland, for a community
Good Friday Service on
Good Friday, April 14, at
12:00 noon. The service is
expected to last one hour,
and those who are on their
lunch break and need to
leave early are encouraged
to simply attend as much
of the service as they can.
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