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Mecha-Mules lead Shockley Robotics League
Last Saturday 13 teams from SW Washington gathered at Lower Columbia College for the first robotics tournament of this season. Each team plays six matches, each with an Alliance Partner, competing...
Emergency Comms Test Shows Strong Results
Last weekend we completed another test of our county's ability to communicate during severe emergency conditions. This nation-wide activity is called Winter Field Day: Amateur radio stations from all...
Wahkiakum Mecha-Mules earn award at regional tournament
This unusual season of the First Tech Challenge robotics competition has ended after five months of practice, building, coding, more practice, presentations, 18 competition matches and then a final pr...
N7WAH members are ready for the big one
Last June over 10,000 amateur radio operators from across the country participated in Field Day 2020. The objective was to see how many other stations you can contact in 24 hours. Because of covid...
Local radio club passes Emcomm test
Submitted by Ron Wright How well could we talk to each other during an emergency if all of the cell phone towers were down, land-lines were broken, no internet, and no power? That was the question...
Robotics team wins trophy
The high school robotics team and a support group of middle school future robotics team members played for 15 hours traveling to Olympia and doing robotics with 35 other teams coming from Seattle to...
Wahkiakum SAR members celebrated
Wahkiakum County Search and Rescue completed 2019 with a holiday celebration at the County Courthouse last Wednesday evening. The evening began with dinner provided by the Team Board of Directors and...
Field day connects amateur radio operators
In the biggest "virtual get-together" of their year thousands of amateur radio clubs from across the country communicated last weekend via radio during a simulated major disaster. Our local club,...
Robotics next week in Wahkiakum School District
Thursday March 14 from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m., Wahkiakum high School will host the second annual Wahkiakum Wohbot Wohundup, aka “WWW.” The community is invited. We will show off robot and programming projects from students K-12. There will also be rob...
Wahkiakum ARC emergency commission activated
Monday night two minutes after the power outage started the Wahkiakum County Amateur Radio Club emergency communications network was activated using the Incident Command System protocol (W7ERY Ron, WA6TTR Gordon, KG7WSQ Jim, KC7IVJ Dale and KE7IHH...
N7WAH Amateur Radio Field Day was great success
Photos by Jean Kelsey Last weekend was busy in Wahkiakum County. Along with the Kite Festival and the Puget Island Garage Sale there was the national Amateur Radio Field Day wherein roughly 40,000...
4-H Robotics club at Camas SWIRL Tourney
Last Thursday your Wahkiakum 4H Robotics Club competed at the Hayez Dayez Camas invitational with 12 other teams from seven other schools. We came away with three of the 12 medals: First Place in Line...
EmComm Antenna supports mounted at Wahkiakum HS
EmComm Antenna supports mounted at Wahkiakum HS Story and photo by Ron Wright Monday afternoon the County Sheriff's Department of Emergency Services teamed up with the Wahkiakum School District,...
Wahkiakum 4H Robotics competes at state
This past weekend Wahkiakum 4H Robotics went to the Showare Center in Kent for the FIRST Tech Challenge State Championships. While our team and robot performed better than it ever has, we finished as one of the "also-rans." Team members shared their...
Robotics club earns award at tournament
Last Saturday your Wahkiakum 4H Robotics Club sent its FIRST Tech Challenge team, the Wahkiakum Mecha-Mules, to Tacoma for the Watt Interleague tournament to compete with 36 other schools for the...
4-H Robotics Club competed in Vancouver
The Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics club FIRST Technical Challenge robotics team competed this past week end in Vancouver against Clark County teams. After the parts finished whirring we stand in third place in our League, only two points behind the leader....
Local team competes in FIRST Lego League
One happy team after our competition this past Saturday in Camas WA. The FIRST Lego League competition requires students to present to three panels of judges in three areas of expertise, then to...
Robotics team competes in FTC event
The First Tech Challenge (FTC) competition is for high school teams. We competed last Saturday against teams from the Vancouver area and Southwest Washington. Our rookie team did well. We had six...
Recycling is a Happening in Wahkiakum County
Our county recycling bins have been repainted, our recycling website is operational, we have several businesses recycling items that cannot go into our county bins, the school district is recycling...
Clean recycling campaign kicks-off
Did you see the new colors for the county's recycling bins? Brown for cardboard; red for tin and aluminum cans; forest green for #1 and #2 plastics; and safety green for mixed paper. Volunteers from t...
Wahkiakum 4H Robotics completes FIRST season in FLL
We had 14 students representing Wahkiakum, and over 20 adults all in Olympia last Saturday for the FIRST Lego League Robotics Semi-Final tournament featuring teams from Vancouver, Olympia, Tacoma and...
Wahkiakum 4H Robotics team advances to regionals
The Wahkiakum 4H Robotics team competed at the Southwest Washington FIRST Lego League Qualifying on December 5 in Camas and qualified to advance to the South Washington FIRST Lego League Regional...
