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bookmark_borderRamp Riot at Wissahickon High School

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November 2, 2013
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wissahickon High School Gymnasium
Ambler, Pennsylvania 19002

High Schools’ Robots Battle it out in Arena-Style Competition

The 14th annual Ramp Riot will be hosted by Wissahickon Robotics Team 341. Competing high schools include:
11 MORT, Mt. Olive HS
103 Cybersonics Technology Team, Palisades HS
222 Tigertrons, Tunkhannock AHS
224 The Tribe, Piscataway HS
225 Tech Fire, York, PA
272 Cyber Crusaders, Lansdale Catholic HS
304 Robo Griffin, George Washington HS
306 Corry Robotics Team, Corry Area HS
316 LuNa Tecs, South Jersey Robotics
321 Central Robotics, Central HS
341 Miss Daisy, Wissahickon HS
365 Miracle Workerz/MOE Robotics
423 Simple Machines, Cheltenham & Springfield HS
433 Firebirds, Mount St. Joseph’s Academy
484 Robo-Force, Haverford HS
708 Hard-Wired Fusion, Hatboro-Horsham HS
834 Spartechs, Southern Lehigh HS
869 Power Cord, Middlesex HS
1168 Malvern Prep/Villa Maria Academy Robotics
1218 Vulcan Robotics, Chestnut Hill Academy
1391 Westtown Robotics, Westtown School
1403 Cougar Robotics, Montgomery HS
1626 Falcon Robotics, St. Joseph High School
1640 Sab-BOT-age, Downingtown HS
1676 Pascack Pioneers, Pascack Valley / Pascack Hills HS
1712 Dawgma, Lower Merion HS
1923 MidKnight Inventors, West Windsor-South Plansboro HS
2016 Mighty Monkey Wrenches, Ewing HS/ MKSD
2539 Krypton Cougars, Palmyra Area HS
2607 Fighting RoboVikings, Archbishop Wood HS
2729 Storm Robotics, Lenape & Cherokee HS
3151 Cyberstorm, GCIT
3167 Environmental Tectonics Crusaders, Father Judge HS
3314 Mustang Robotics, Clifton HS
3929 Atomic Dragons, J R Masterman HS
4575 The Tin Mints, GSEP Patrol #5426

bookmark_borderMontgomery County High School Art Exhibition and Competition

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Blue Bell, Pennsylvania — Montgomery County high school art students will present the best of their artwork at Montgomery County Community College’s 34th Annual Montgomery County High School Art Exhibition and Competition from Sunday, March 4, through Friday, March 23, at the Fine Arts Center Art Gallery at Central Campus, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell.

The artists’ reception will be held Sunday, March 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. with the awards presentation at 2 p.m.

Students from 32 public, parochial and private schools in Montgomery County were invited to participate in the exhibition. The artwork features a variety of subjects and styles in an array of media. College art faculty members will be judging the artwork.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Gallery Director Holly Cairns at 215-619-7349 or hcairns@mc3.edu.

You can help support the arts and art education programs at Montgomery County Community College by becoming a Friend of The Galleries. Donations are tax deductible. For more information, contact the College Foundation at 215-641-6535.

by Diane VanDyke

bookmark_borderMontgomery County Climate Leadership

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For the fifth consecutive year, Montgomery County Community College will participate in RecycleMania, an eight-week nationwide contest during which colleges and universities compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most campus waste. The 2012 RecycleMania tournament runs from Feb. 5 through April 6.

This year, for the first time, MCCC qualifies to compete in RecycleMania’s Competition Division based on the way its waste materials are collected and measured. Previously, MCCC participated in the contest’s Benchmark Division.

Each week the College’s facilities team will collect and weighs recyclable materials – including paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and plastics #1-7 – and will enter the totals into RecycleMania’s database.

In 2011, MCCC’s West and Central campuses ranked second and third in Pennsylvania for their cumulative recycling rates of 38.64 percent and 34.68 percent, respectively. When compared to Benchmark Division institutions nationally, the West Campus ranked 27th in the country and the Central Campus ranked 33rd.

Nationally, 630 colleges and universities from across the county recovered 91 million pounds of recyclable material in 2011. This prevented the release of more than 127,553 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E) into the atmosphere.

MCCC was among the first institutions to sign American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) in 2007. The College’s sustainability efforts are led by a team of faculty, students, administrators, support staff, alumni and community members that comprise the President’s Climate Commitment Advisory Council.

In recognition of its deep commitment to sustainability, MCCC was one of only five institutions in the country to earn a 2011 Award for Institutional Excellence in Climate Leadership from Second Nature.

To learn more about MCCC’s Sustainability Initiative, visit its “Think Green” blog at mc3green.wordpress.com.

RecycleMania, Inc. is governed by a steering committee made up of collegiate recycling managers from participating institutions. The competition is managed by Keep America Beautiful, with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WasteWise program and the College and University Recycling Coalition (CURC). Sponsors include The Coca-Cola Company, Waste Management, SCA Tissue, Alcoa, America Forest & Paper Association and HP.

For information on the national effort, visit www.recyclemaniacs.org.

by Alana J. Mauger