Pedaling, pulling her way to international title
January 15, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press
There’s a national champion living in the Osakis community. Averie Mounsdon, 9, is the top puller in the National Pedal Pull competition.
In September, the Osakis third grader pulled 190 pounds of weight 29-feet, 9-inches to earn the national championship. Continue Reading
WHS senior scores at FCCLA national competition
At the International Aerial Robotics Competition held at UND Thursday, the University of Michigan aircraft flew into the four-room bunker undetected and found a small flash drive it was programmed to retrieve. Then the retrieval magnet got caught on a chair.
Nearly 100 university students in 15 teams from around the world will be competing next week at UND to see who has the best spy drone. The challenge: design an unmanned aircraft that can fly undetected into a simulated enemy compound, and find and retrieve a small flash drive within five minutes.
An estimated 200 pilots will take a shot at winning $10,000 today as they compete to land on, or close to, a white line drawn on the runway at Grand Forks International Airport.
All Minnesota high school students were given the opportunity to study the Brain Facts (a primer on the brain and nervous system) and answer 90 multiple choice items in 60 minutes.
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