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Students Compete With Robotics: Annual Shelter Drive Kicks Off
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By ALAN BAUER
Elauwit Media Pet Drive
Quartermaster
There are two moments
from all of the years that Ive
been doing Deck the Paws
and Help a Collie that stand
out in my mind.
The first one took place a
few years ago. I drove into an
animal shelter parking lot
with an SUV filled with pet
food, cat litter, cleaning sup-
plies and even a few bones,
toys and treats.
Volunteers appeared from
everywhere to help unload.
As we were about finished,
one of them pulled me aside
and told me, with tears in her
eyes, that they had very little
food left. They didnt know
what they were going to do.
Annual shelter
drive kicks off
please see RESPONSE, page 3
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Students compete with robotics
By SHANNON CAULFIELD
The Shamong Sun
The First Tech Challenge robot-
ics qualifiers on Saturday, Nov. 17,
united Lenape Regional High
School District schools to meet
and compete for a chance to ad-
vance to the state tournament.
Eighteen teams from New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and New York
gathered at Cherokee High
Schools gym to show off their ro-
botic creations and compete for
one of four open spots for states.
Of the LRHSD schools, Chero-
kee and Lenape combined to
make up the Storm Robotics team,
and Shawnee and Seneca teamed
up as the Platinum Devils.
None of the LRHSD teams ad-
vanced to the state tournament.
Storm Robotics placed 16th, and
the Platinum Devils placed 13th
out of 18 teams. Additionally,
Storm Robotics won the Motivate
Award and was a finalist for the
Connect Award.
Our upperclassmen team is
called the Iron Devils, and our
robots number is 6018. If you add
60 plus 18 you get 78, which is plat-
inums atomic number on the pe-
riodic table, said the Platinum
Devils team adviser Chuck Di-
Vincenzo. Science humor.
The teams meet two days a
week for four-to eight-hour ses-
sions at a time.
We didnt know we were doing
this until June, said DiVincenzo.
The game started in September
and we had to catch up. The kids
are working hard.
Seneca and Shawnee students
met at night to work on their
robot, according to DiVincenzo,
and with the close proximity of
the schools, it made it easier for a
cohesive team.
According to Nate Knauss, an
organizer of the competition, the
program has teamed up with the
New Jersey Institute of Technolo-
gy, located in Newark, and Lock-
heed Martin, which provided a
grant to the program.
Theyre going to volunteer
with us and help expose the kids
to engineering, said Knauss.
During their time in the pro-
gram, students learn about the
different variations of engineer-
ing. Its then applied to the cre-
SHANNON CAULFIELD/The Shamong Sun
The Storm Robotics teams machine acts as a platform for Moorestown Friends Schools team, the MFS
Foxes to place a ring on the tic-tac-toe-like structure at the First Tech Challenge robotics qualifiers on
Saturday, Nov. 17. Teams were paired at random for a two-minute challenge as part of the state qualifiers.
please see PROGRAM, page 9
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Response to annual
drive overwhelming
Then your donations showed up.
You saved the day.
The need is there. Its always
there. No doubt its there again
this year.
We started Elauwit Media, pub-
lisher of The Sun newspapers, in
2004. Every year, beginning that
year, weve held our annual holi-
day animal shelter/rescue group
supply drive.
We call it Deck the Paws and
Help a Collie because, well, it
needed a name, time was short, it
kind of rhymes with Deck the
Halls with Boughs of Holly and it
includes animal references. Not
saying it is the greatest slogan
ever, but it seems to work.
The response every year has
been overwhelming. Bad weath-
er? A tough economy? Whatever.
Failure is not an option. We fill
SUVs, vans and pickup trucks
with all kinds of supplies.
And were going to do it again
this year.
Elsewhere in this paper, youll
see a list of places that have gra-
ciously agreed to be
collection/drop-off points for us.
Most of these places have been a
part of this drive for years. We
thank them. The animals thank
them, or would thank them if
they could talk or send an email.
Now its up to you, our readers.
Youve always come through for
the animals. I know you will come
through again.
We ask you to find a drop spot
near you and then donate whatev-
er you can. Trust me, every can of
food matters. Every box of cat lit-
ter makes a difference.
So do toys and treats, which
bring me to my second memo-
rable moment.
I was making my second or
third drop at a shelter one year
when a volunteer said there was
something I needed to see. The
volunteer took me to the cage of a
pitbull who had been a guest for a
number of years, and probably
would be a guest for many more.
He had experienced a tough life,
and had the scars to prove it.
But there he was, rolling
around on the floor and playing
with a toy I had delivered the
week before. He was as happy as
he could be.
I consider myself lucky to wit-
ness firsthand the outcome of
your generosity.
Every year, you make a differ-
ence, a big difference, in the lives
of so many animals.
Im asking you to do it again
this year.
Questions? Comments? Want
to make a donation but need some
help? Want to collect items on
your own and then arrange a
pickup? Anything at all, just call
me at (856) 528-3035 or email me at
alan@elauwit.com.
Please include Animal Shel-
ter in the subject line so
that I dont think you are offering
me the financial opportunity
of a lifetime or a hair replace-
ment system and accidentally
delete it.
Thank you, in advance, for
your support.
RESPONSE
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