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Game On for local FIRST Robotics Team

Saturday, January 12th, 2013, 11:00am

Members of the “Blue Devils” robotics team from Hopewell High School picked up robot components and learned their mission for the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition on Saturday, January 5. Gathering at the Virginia Commonwealth University Student Commons, teams from across Virginia heard they'll have just six weeks to design and build remote-controlled robots that can fling Frisbee-type discs through goals and climb 10-foot pyramids. Students in FIRST programs not only compete for bragging rights in the international contest; they also qualify for more than $16 million in college scholarships. Learn more at www.virginiafirst.org

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School of medicine heralds new building, curriculum

Submitted by NBC12 Web Producer on Monday, December 3rd, 12:49 pm

As VCU rapidly expands and updates its facilities across both campuses, MCV is updating their academic framework as well. The state-of-the-art renovation of the McGlothlin Medical Education Center will help facilitate the medical school’s new C-3 curriculum, according to Dr. Susan DiGiovanni, the assistant dean of medical education... Read More

Read the full story at The Commonwealth Times

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PHSAA accepting applications for kindergarten, 3rd and 5th grades

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer

Friday, August 19th, 2011, 2:30am

Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts, a Richmond Public School, will be reopening kindergarten, third and fifth grades for additional enrollment spots.

Interested families can visit the PHSSA website at www.patrickhenrycharter.org to download an application or can stop by the school at Woodland Heights Baptist Church – Education Center, 611 West 31st Street, Richmond, to pick up an application. Families will need to complete the application and mail it or drop it off at the school during the hours of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Meeting tonight on new middle school in Church Hill

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 11th, 10:41 am

You can find out the latest on Richmond's construction of a new middle school Thursday night.

The school system will host a community meeting to share the construction schedule for the new Martin Luther King middle school.

It's one of four new schools the city is building over the next several years.

Tonight's meeting is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the current Martin Luther King middle on 1000 Mosby Street in Church Hill.

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Vote VCU for "Best Upset" ESPY

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer

Friday, July 8th, 2011, 8:39am

Councilman Hilbert challenges all citizens, officials and companies in Richmond area to Vote Online Now for VCU to win ESPN “ESPY” Award.

Hilbert urges everyone to act fast because voting ends on July 9, 2011. The vote is for VCU to win the category of “Best Upset” for their 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament win over the University of Kansas (1st seed), on March 27, 2011 (score 71-61), which placed the 11th seed VCU Men’s Basketball Team in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four Tournament for the first time.

The Voting process includes the following:

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Richmond Public Schools Summer Feeding Sites

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, June 27th, 5:27 pm

The Richmond Public Schools is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the sites and times as follows:

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Everyone wins at the Annual Robotics Competition

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer

Thursday, April 14th, 2011, 10:27am

The Annual Robotics Competition wrapped up recently at the Stuart C. Siegel Center and although everybody didn't win, everybody really did win. Gene Cox shows you how.

The Siegel Center hummed with creative minds. Teenagers from 64 area schools brought their robots to show, and because they're robots there was a lot of fine tuning to be done to make things work. These gizmos don't look like the humanoid robots seen in the movies, but they perform on demand, doing exactly what their creators designed them to do.

These are all very bright students. They know how to imagine things and make them work. So, who won the competition? Well, they all did. That's the point.

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