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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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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 robot competitions with other schools. New events this year are "Moon Maze Bomb Run" and "Air Slalom Drone Races." Sheriff Howie will again serve as lead judge to keep events in order. The Wahkiakum County Amateur Radio Club is providing technical judges. 4-H is again providing medals and other sup...
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 Larry) Within 10 minutes we had five more stations on our county emergency simplex frequency of 145.55 mHz (K7SH Steve, KB7AJY Jean, KI7YMM Peter, AE6DI Mark, AE7RD Dave). We quickly determined that Cathlamet, Elochoman Valley and Puget Island were out. So, within 10 minutes we had a total of 10...
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 amateur radio operators all over the country take their radios and antennas out of their houses and into a field for 24 hours to test emergency preparedness. Our county's radio club, N7WAH, with the help of Wahkiakum PUD, Wahkiakum 4-H, Wahkiakum School District and Smokey Waters set up at a baseball...
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 Racers unlimited (Lydia Blalock), Second Place in Line Racers unlimited (Audrey Morton), and Second Place in Line Racers restricted (Montana Stephens). As you can tell from the results our students focused this winter on preparing their Line Racers. We had one more entrant in Line Racers for a full...
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 County PUD and the Wahkiakum Amateur Radio Club to get us one step closer to being able to deal effectively with "the big one." Today's step was to hang pulleys and ropes at the baseball field so that emergency antennas can very quickly be hoisted and used to facilitate communications from our...
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 thoughts on the day and what we learned: Ben McLain: "It was fascinating to see all of the different teams competing. They all had really intuitive ideas and it was nice to see how it all came together. It was a really friendly environment." Erik Kolditz: "It was really fun to compete against all...
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 eight slots to advance to the State tournament in February. Teams from around southwest Washington were there: Olympia School District was the most represented with eight teams, followed by Tacoma with five teams and North Thurston with four and Enumclaw with three, plus Camas and Evergreen each sent...
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. There is a second League tournament on December 2 in Camas then we go to our regional championships on December 16 in Tacoma. This will determine the top eight teams (out of 38 in our region) who advance to the state championships on February 4 in Kent. Afterwards, we all felt as Chuck Barton, our...
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 compete with other teams for their best of three runs of their robot through a series of challenges. All four of our team members were new to FLL this year and did remarkably well considering the veteran competition, mostly from Vancouver and Camas schools. When all of the dust settled we placed sixth...
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 matches and our robot ran in both autonomous and teleop (driver-controlled) modes in every one of our matches - one of only three teams present to do so. There were many equipment failures and DNS's, but not us! Mules don't ever stop kicking. This is a three-tournament series to determine the southwest...
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 in all grades, the recycling education program returns to school this week, and we need your help to get it right. The Wahkiakum 4H Robotics club volunteers, The Healthy Living Cooperative volunteers and Wahkiakum County teamed up to complete the bin painting, and adding new signage to each site....
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 the Wahkiakum 4-H Robotics Club and The Healthy Living Collaborative are teaming up with Wahkiakum County to repaint our county recycling bins at three locations. The repainting of the first pair was completed last week at the Puget Island Fire Hall. Thank you Fire District #1 for providing space to...
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 Renton. While we did not qualify to advance to the State tournament (only 7 of the 30 teams advanced), we ended our last match with a celebratory group hug. We had fun and learned a lot about robotics, "coopertition," "gracious professionalism," living the 4H pledge, and each other. Students...
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 Tournament on January 23 in Olympia. Twelve team members represented Wahkiakum and 4H. Each team competes in four events at the tournament: Core Values (given a problem – how well does the team work together to solve the problem), Design (how well do the team members understand their robot and p...
