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Roses popular, easy to grow in Oklahoma
Roses are one of the most popular plants in Oklahoma gardens, and many are relatively easy to grow, especially the newer varieties like the Knock Out® rose. Roses offer color and fragrance in the garden, and many make wonderful cut flowers. If you have a garden, you should try your hand at growing roses!.
03/22/2012 | Comments 0From ‘Long Black Limousine’ to Elvis
That would change years later. For the next seven years, band members came and went. Finally, Black put together a group of musicians that have been with him for more than 20 years. They include guitarist Graham Pugh, bass player Rick Alongi, drummer Bob Gorley and keyboard player Phil Sapper, formerly of Harvey and the Wallbangers.
03/01/2012 | Comments 0Young artist generates new ideas for veterans memorial expansion
“This will not be done with any public money,” said Howe, an Air Force pilot who flew B-52s during the Vietnam war. “Each statue will cost $40,000, but this type of art puts us in a different realm. It will take us into the world of art, which opens new avenues for giving.
02/23/2012 | Comments 0Fleck and Flecktones to perform April 10 at Rose State
The extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo are touring to support their latest recording, “Rocket Science.
02/17/2012 | Comments 0Real Life
In my presentation, I told the club members about the importance of supporting their local newspaper. After all, we received numerous compliments about our publication and its new appearance, content and local ownership. In this business, compliments can be few and far between, so we enjoyed all of the positive remarks.
02/17/2012 | Comments 0‘General’-ly speaking
In fact, every night when he goes home, the general’s hat comes off – if only temporarily – and suddenly the commander of one of the most critical U.S. Air Force bases turns into father, husband, scuba diver and avid fan of New England sports teams..
02/10/2012 | Comments 0Longtime MWC fire department spokesman Jerry Lojka retires
Lojka spent 29 years at the Midwest City Fire Department and served in several roles, including firefighter, inspector, investigator, public education officer, public information officer and fire marshal.
His favorite job was that of department spokesman as he answered questions from the press, and conveyed important fire prevention tips to the public.
Real Life: Lojka will be missed at fire department
This week’s retirement of Midwest City Fire Marshal Jerry Lojka reminded
me how an effective and well-intentioned PIO does his job. During the
past 14 months I’ve discovered that he knows his job and he understands
the role reporters play in the world of news and information.
02/03/2012 | Comments 0MWC grad, Hudson to receive national awards
Midwest City School graduate Lester Claravall will receive the prestigious Lewis Hines Award for Service to Children and Youth during a ceremony in New York City on Monday.
The award will be presented by the National Child Labor Committee, which serves as the sponsor for the Lewis Hines awards...
Images of 2012 MLK Prayer Breakfast
Several hundred people attended Midwest City’s 15th annual Martin
Luther King, Jr., Prayer Breakfast Monday at the Sheraton Hotel’s Reed
Conference Center. Featured speakers were former state legislator Angela
Monson, Oklahoma City police officer Paco Balderamma and Midwest City
graduate and current University of Oklahoma student Rodney Farrow.
01/19/2012 | Comments 0
July 16th, 2010
Rose State program connects kids with science, engineering
Austin Long, 14, of McLoud, Okla., leans over his miniature robot, holding a flashlight next to the robot's photo-receptor start button. He's facing off against several other kids' robots. All of them are built from the same stock, but each is wildly different from the others.
The youths are all part of Rose State's Kids College summer program, held each summer at the college. Classes in the program range from animation to soccer, crime scene investigation to rocketry, cartooning to cheerleading. The robotics class, taught by teacher Donna Haworth of Moore Public Schools, is a very popular sequence.
Some of the robots have ramps. Others have claws. All are designed by their teams to compete for one thing: grabbing the green puffball before the other robots, thereby winning the game.
Four robots are squared off at the edge of the robot arena, a four-foot by four-foot board with concentric squares painted on it.
WHO'S ZOOMING WHO?
Like a bunch of motorized cars, the robots zoom into the arena all at once, aimed in one way or another at the green puffball, balanced on the end of a tube. They arrive almost all at the same time, some knocking one another over in the effort to capture the puffball.
However, Austin and Cameron Killion's robot has a not-so-secret weapon. In their haste for the prize, the other kids' robots all bang into one another, knocking the puffball this way and that " right into the rubber band net that the two designed for their robot. However strongly the other robots fight, their efforts only reward Austin and Cameron with yet another victory. The puffball lands, and sticks, in their robot's waiting mechanical arms.
"Most of the other robots have claws," Austin said. "Ours has a net, so it's got more area that can catch the ball. Claws don't have as much area. When it falls, we catch it."
While it sounds simple, the answer displays an understanding of the spatial dynamics involved in the game, Haworth said. More area for the catch equals better odds. The brainstorming, creation, design and even software writing are paying off for Austin and Cameron.
"They get to use the scientific method and the engineering process, and they don't even have to know it," Haworth said.
Does all this make Austin want to become an engineer?
"Yes," he answers firmly. "It's what I'm good at."
photo Austin Long, 14 (left), and Cameron Killion, 11, prepare a robot for competition during Kids College at Rose State College. The annual summer program is hosted by the college through late July. Photo/Kelley Chambers
The youths are all part of Rose State's Kids College summer program, held each summer at the college. Classes in the program range from animation to soccer, crime scene investigation to rocketry, cartooning to cheerleading. The robotics class, taught by teacher Donna Haworth of Moore Public Schools, is a very popular sequence.
Some of the robots have ramps. Others have claws. All are designed by their teams to compete for one thing: grabbing the green puffball before the other robots, thereby winning the game.
Four robots are squared off at the edge of the robot arena, a four-foot by four-foot board with concentric squares painted on it.
WHO'S ZOOMING WHO?
Like a bunch of motorized cars, the robots zoom into the arena all at once, aimed in one way or another at the green puffball, balanced on the end of a tube. They arrive almost all at the same time, some knocking one another over in the effort to capture the puffball.
However, Austin and Cameron Killion's robot has a not-so-secret weapon. In their haste for the prize, the other kids' robots all bang into one another, knocking the puffball this way and that " right into the rubber band net that the two designed for their robot. However strongly the other robots fight, their efforts only reward Austin and Cameron with yet another victory. The puffball lands, and sticks, in their robot's waiting mechanical arms.
"Most of the other robots have claws," Austin said. "Ours has a net, so it's got more area that can catch the ball. Claws don't have as much area. When it falls, we catch it."
While it sounds simple, the answer displays an understanding of the spatial dynamics involved in the game, Haworth said. More area for the catch equals better odds. The brainstorming, creation, design and even software writing are paying off for Austin and Cameron.
"They get to use the scientific method and the engineering process, and they don't even have to know it," Haworth said.
Does all this make Austin want to become an engineer?
"Yes," he answers firmly. "It's what I'm good at."
photo Austin Long, 14 (left), and Cameron Killion, 11, prepare a robot for competition during Kids College at Rose State College. The annual summer program is hosted by the college through late July. Photo/Kelley Chambers
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