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By JULIE STIPE
The Robbinsville Sun
Members of the Rob-
binsville Board of Education
on May 29 appointed Matthew
OGrady to the board. OGrady
will replace board member
Richard Kaspar, who resigned
from the board in early May.
The board spent about an
hour interviewing four candi-
dates for the position before
nominating and appointing
OGrady, who was sworn into
office during the meeting,
though the appointment is not
effective until July 1.
OGrady will serve through
Dec. 31.
OGrady is already a veter-
an of the Robbinsville school
board, having served on it for
several years, from 2007-2011.
Members of the school
board praised the quality of
the candidates for the position,
asking them to remain in-
volved with the school district
in the future.
I dont think Ive seen such
a great slate of candidates in a
long time, said board member
Florence Gange.
Board president Michael
Reca urged the candidates to
please stay engaged with the
schools and district.
Superintendent Steve
Program offers technology lessons
By JULIE STIPE
The Robbinsville Sun
At the Robbinsville annual golf
classic on May 22, residents
swung, putted and drove their
way to a better education for Rob-
binsville kids.
The annual event included
lunch, 18 holes of golf, cocktails
and dinner at the Mercer Oaks
golf course on Village Road in
West Windsor, and the money
raised will go to the Robbinsville
Education Foundation.
Despite initially ominous
weather, event co-chairwoman
Jodi Stephens said golfers still
turned out with plenty of enthu-
siasm.
Its always a fun day,
Stephens said. The weather was
perfect.
Although the outing isnt ex-
actly a competition, Stephens
said, prizes are given out for
achievements such as the closest
ball to the pin or the longest drive.
Theres even a prize for the most
honest four, otherwise known as
the group with the highest score.
Theyre the ones who put the
right score down, Stephens
joked.
This is the ninth year for the
event, which Robbinsville Educa-
tion Foundation secretary Mary
Caffrey said began as an inde-
pendent event set up by parents
and educational leaders. Two
years ago, it was brought under
the umbrella of the education
foundation.
When the event was started,
Caffrey said, the money raised
about $76,000 went to help fund
the Project Lead the Way, a pro-
gram designed to bring more pre-
engineering and technology to
Robbinsville High School.
Project Lead the Way is an or-
ganization that has developed a
curriculum of hands-on courses
in engineering and biomedical
sciences for use in high schools
and middle schools. The program
attempts to engage kids in engi-
neering, technology and other
sciences and prepare them to be
leaders and innovators in these
fields.
The program has been very
successful at the high school
level, Caffrey said.
The program gives students ac-
cess to project-based classes on
basic engineering principles, as
well as more specific types of en-
gineering, such as biotechnical
and aerospace engineering.
As part of its commitment to
supporting STEM (science, tech-
nology, engineering and mathe-
matics) education, the foundation
has also helped support Rob-
binsvilles multiple award-win-
ning FIRST robotics team and its
Technology Student Association.
The foundations trustees work
closely with administration in
the school district to determine
what area to focus their attention.
We want to make sure were
complementing programs that al-
ready exist, said Robbinsville
Education Foundation Vice-Presi-
dent Debbie Baer.
The goal is to fund a project
that would otherwise not be possi-
ble through the districts budget,
which, like most school budgets
in the state, is tight. This year,
funds raised from the golf classic
are earmarked for a Project Lead
the Way program at the middle
school level.
The program, called Gateway
to Technology, will act as a feed-
er program for high school engi-
neering classes and as a way to
spark kids interest in engineer-
please see COUNSELOR, page 5 please see DISCOVERY, page 2
Special to The Sun
During a robotics discovery day at Robbinsville High School, kids work with members of the high schools
robotics team to build programmable robots using kits. The robotics team, along with engineering and ro-
botics classes, are part of Project Lead the Way, and are funded by the Robbinsville Education Founda-
tion, which hopes to bring a similar pre-engineering program to middle school students.
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ing and technology.
Robbinsvilles robotics team
has already been giving young
kids a taste of how much fun en-
gineering can be with its robot-
ics discovery day. At the event,
kids from second to fifth grade
create simple bristle bots or use
Lego Mindstorms kits to build
basic, programmable robots.
The experience provides kids
with a feel for what a middle
school Project Lead the Way class
might be like hands-on, creative,
guided instruction in designing,
building and programming ro-
bots.
The discovery day has been
enormously successful in getting
kids interested in engineering
and looking forward to taking ro-
botics and other hands-on tech-
nology courses, and those at the
education foundation see it as a
good indicator that a Project Lead
the Way program could be suc-
cessful at the middle school
level.
Its obvious there is an inter-
est at the lower level, said Baer.
The foundation has not calcu-
lated how much money was
raised at the golf classic, but it
will likely take much more than
what the event brought in to get a
middle school Project Lead the
Way off the ground. Baer stressed
that the foundation accepts and
appreciates direct donations, and
as a non-profit, any donations are
tax deductible.
Baer said she and other mem-
bers of the foundation are excited
about the program and the oppor-
tunities it could bring to kids.
It really is an elite type of pro-
gram, Baer said. Hopefully peo-
ple will want to support it.
To donate to the foundation or
for more information, visit
www.refkids.org.
DISCOVER
Continued from page 1
Discovery day
nurtures interest
in engineering
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Memorial 5K Race and 1-Mile fun
walk will be held June 9 at 9 a.m.
Check in is at 7:30 a.m. There is
an entry fee of $20 ($18 for USATF
members). Interested partici-
pants can register online at
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Checks can be mailed to
Samantha Rua, 155 Robbinsville
Edinburg Road, Robbinsville.
Computerized results will recog-
nize the top male, female and
overall winners and there will
be awards for the top three run-
ners in each age group.
There will be T-shirts for all
pre-registered entries. T-shirts
will be given to same-day entrants
while supplies last.
Refreshments will be served be-
fore and after the event on the of-
ficially sanctioned course that
will be monitored and protected
by the Robbinsville Police Depart-
ment.
If you or your business would
like to become a sponsor of the
race, please contact Rua at
rua@robbinsville.k12.nj.us.
On Saturday, June 9, the Amer-
ican Red Cross will hold a blood
drive for the Robbinsville com-
munity from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
Pond Road Middle School, 150
Pond Road, Robbinsville. Ap-
pointments are preferred.
For an appointment or infor-
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point in their life.
The need is constant, but only 2
percent of eligible donors donate
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Your time and your blood dona-
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It saves up to three lives and
can bring back happiness to fami-
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Local Girl Scouts will be con-
ducting registration for the 2012-
13 school year beginning June 7
from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at
Pinky Toes Party Palace, located
at 2350 Route 33 (B-109) and
next to Maggie Moo's in Rob-
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The Robbinsville Township
Municipal Alliance against al-
coholism and drug abuse pres-
ents a Fathers Day Fishing
Derby on Sunday, June 17,
from 8 a.m. to noon at the Gaze-
bo.
The lake at Town Center will
be stocked with fish and we will
be promoting catch and release.
Prizes for the biggest fish and
most fish caught will be award-
ed. Food and drinks will be pro-
vided throughout the day at
nominal costs.
For more information, con-
tact the Robbinsville Township
Recreation Division by phone
at (609) 918-0002, ext. 120, or on
the web at www.robbinsville-
twp.org and jbarker@Rob-
binsville-Twp.org.
Scouts from Pack No. 79, under
the project direction of Ahmed
Bahgat, constructed a walking
trail and bridge behind the ware-
house complex as part of their
Eagle Scout projects. The Scouts
Bahgat, Nick Sprang, Rob
Sprang, Nick Niezgoda and Troop
leader Mike Normandin cleared
the land of brush and other de-
bris behind the McMaster-Carr
warehouse and put down a six-
foot-wide trail of mulch that in-
cluded informational signs.
Niezgoda did the same for a dif-
ferent portion of the eco-friendly
trail. Sprang had the responsibili-
ty of constructing a footbridge
over a small stream behind the
Mercedes-Benz warehouse. Origi-
nally designed as a 40-foot, cedar
wood-framed span with the help
of architect George Fett, the need
to build handicapped accessible
ramps more than doubled the size
of the project. Because of this,
Sprang constructed ramps as his
project.
The bridge was financed by
The Friends and Historical Socie-
ty of Robbinsville' through a
grant by the New Jersey Depart-
ment of Environmental Protec-
tion.
The main span of the bridge
was built from February through
May 2011, while the ramps were
constructed from August to Octo-
ber and required close to 1,400
man hours to complete.
Special to The Sun
Mayor Dave Fried, left, and the township are grateful to Eagle Scouts Ahmed Bahgat, Nick Sprang, Rob
Sprang and Nick Niezgoda (not pictured), along with Troop leader Mike Normandin, for all their efforts in
constructing the walking trail and bridge behind the warehouse complex.
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