Wisdom and whimsy in moderate doses
This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL. In 2001, Susie Mathieu agreed to help her brother with a weekend project. Saturday night, Mathieu was honored with the FIRST Champion Volunteer of the Year award for her work toward that “weekend” project. Thirteen years ago, venture capitalist and St. Louis native John Doerr called his sister and… Continue reading STL’s Mathieu surprised with FIRST volunteer award
This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL. A lot goes into building a robot. A lot more goes in to building an elite robotics team. Just ask Cafe Bot, the FIRST Tech Challenge team from Webster Groves. The 3-year-old three-man team received third place in the FIRST Championship Inspire award Saturday afternoon at FIRST world championship… Continue reading Webster Groves team wins prestigious FIRST honor
This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL. Hundreds of runners participated in Saturday’s Color Run, a 5K “paint race” that raise money for the St. Louis chapter of Autism Speaks. Known as the Happy Race, runners are showered with colored powder at stations along the route of the untimed race. Color run! pic.twitter.com/ElvVlvBrGe — Kathy Heffern… Continue reading Color Run paints St. Louis ‘happy’
Sometimes I write things for RealTime/STL. Here’s what I wrote this week. Blues inspire Easter eggs Ferguson resolution will support city-county merger study The robots (and lots of young scientists) are coming #OMGSTL: St. Louisans share #GlobalSelfies Makeup and robots: It all comes together at FIRST John Burroughs robotics team returns to world competition Color… Continue reading My stories: Week ending April 26
This story originally appeared on RealTime/STL. You know what they say: There are no second chances. But for the John Burroughs School robotics team, on Thursday there was: Technical difficulty with another team’s robot meant they had a second chance in the FIRST Robotics Competition qualification match at the Edward Jones Dome. This is the… Continue reading John Burroughs robotics team returns to world competition