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  • 4-H food drive to benefit St. Vincent de Paul food bank

    Jessica Vik, 4-H program coordinator|Jul 17, 2024

    The Robo Rascals 4-H Club will be putting on a food drive to benefit St. Vincent de Paul’s Food Bank in Cathlamet. The drive will run from July 22 through Aug. 2. This group of students ranges in age from five to 14, and meet twice a month after school to learn about robotics, electrical, engineering and design for 3D printing. Each year they do a community service project and this year the students wanted to help the food bank. Drop boxes will be available at the following locations: WSU Wahkiakum County Extension 4-H Office, Puget Island F...

  • Puget Island fire hall gets a fresh look

    Jessica Vik|Sep 14, 2023

    Last Friday morning a group of volunteers from the Puget Island Fire Department (PIFD) and Auxiliary showed up to help Jeremy Hilton, owner of Hilton Painting, give the firehouse a face lift. Before the hardworking crew showed up, the hall sported a light gray exterior with darker gray trim. As the volunteers waited, ahead of Jeremy masking, they heard the approval of car horns as community members drove by. Sam Longtain's lift was a valuable piece of equipment during the job. The hall is now...

  • Summer robotics at the library

    Jessica Vik|Jul 13, 2023

    Robo Rascals 4-H Club will host Summer Robotics at the Cathlamet Public Library. They want to offer a chance for kids not in their club to learn and play with robots. The month of July, they will meet on Fridays at the library with the first two sessions geared towards grades K-3 and the last two sessions meant for 4th and 5th graders. Each age bracket uses a different kit according to their age level. Last Friday the kids built a wheeled robot that pulled a skid. Then they ran several tests by...

  • Biology teams up with Robotics

    Jessica Vik|Jun 15, 2023

    A few students from the Wahkiakum High School Robotics team took their winning robot from the SeaPerch competition to the Elochoman River to see how well it would work in field studies. The goal was to find out if the SeaPerch robot would be a helpful tool in combination with live student snorkel divers for collecting Biological data in the Elochoman River. Their teacher said, "The answer was a resounding yes!" This is spawning grounds for the pikeminnow and they hoped to catch a glimpse of...

  • 4-H kids watch robots milk cows

    Jessica Vik|Nov 17, 2022

    The Robo Rascals (an after school 4-H robotics club, grades K-8) took a field trip to see the robots that milk cows at the Burkhalter family farm-Grays River Holsteins. This trip was actually scheduled for the week prior but due to a robot not working correctly, it was pushed off a week. Instead, a tech came out that day to the farm and got them up and running again. This is a reality with technology. It works great when it works but sometimes, companies have to call for help. Arriving at...

  • Robotics club demonstrates robots to seniors

    Jessica Vik|Feb 15, 2018

    The advancement of technology has changed a lot in the last 50 years. The Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club brought their robots to the Senior lunch in Cathlamet on Thursday, February 8 to talk about what they are using to learn programming. On display was small Wedo robots that the younger kids work with, an underwater robot, a drone with a camera, and an EV3 robot. A short demonstration of the EV3 was given. The audience was amazed at the "high tech toys," as one senior called them. The seniors...

  • Robotics club tours water plant

    Jessica Vik|Oct 19, 2017

    Recently the Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club went on a field trip to the Cathlamet Sewer and Water Plant. Their mission on this field trip was to learn one way humans and the water cycle are connected. Some of the members in this club are preparing for the FIRST Lego League competition in December whose theme is "Hydro Dynamics." Part of the competition is playing robot games but there is also an educational side of it. The team presents before the judges a solution to a project they have...

  • Robotics Club on recycling education mission

    Jessica Vik|Oct 5, 2017

    Story and photos by Jessica Vik Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club went into the schools last week educating the kids on recycling. An assembly was held in the middle school for grades 6-8 with a skit on what and how to recycle and then they demonstrated some robots. In the elementary school they went into each classroom, 2-5 grades. The Robotics Club encourages the community to recycle using the color-coded bins at the Puget Island Fire Hall, Skamokawa Fire Hall, and Wahkiakum High School. The safety...

  • Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club competes at state competition

    Jessica Vik|May 18, 2017
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    On Saturday, May 13, Wahkiakum's own 4-H Robotics Club sent it's M.A.T.E. (Marine Advanced Technology Education) team to the Aquatic Center in Federal Way, for the M.A.T.E. State Competition. Captain Chuckie Barton Jr, age 17, lead his team members -Sam Bouts, Micah and Isaiah Johnson, and Peter and Annelise Vik (being the youngest at seven years old) through four underwater tasks simulating commerce, entertainment, construction and health. This team designed and built their R.O.V. (remote...

  • Robotic Club gets a look into the business world

    Jessica Vik|Feb 2, 2017

    The Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club had a neat opportunity to visit Nichols Brother's Boat Builders on January 20. Our county commissioner, Mike Backman, set up the tour. Each of the kids were welcomed into the office of Matt Nichols (the executive vice president) with a hand shake and introduction. Matt is a 3rd generation boat builder. His grandfather started the business at this same location in Freeland, WA on Whidbey Island. When they bought the property it was an old run down saw mill and the...