Monday, October 10, 2016
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Howe Robotics team to enter area contest Robotics is a popular extracurricular activity at Howe High School, as this year there are 16 members. The team is very excited that robotics is recognized as a UIL competition in 2016 and that means they can obtain the same recognition as any other UIL sport or academic competition. The Howe Robotics team, under the direction of Betsy Friedman, have entered the CoCo Best area contest which will be held at Prosper High School on Saturday, October 22. More than 50 other teams will compete with Howe for the chance to move onto the regional competition and then on to the state UIL competition. This year’s theme is “Bet the Farm”. The robot must be able to harvest corn, tomatoes, and lettuce as well as open a water valve. The Howe Top row to bottom and left to right: Trevor Rhoades, Tyler Pickett, Ryan Olszewski, Evan Rogers, Robotics slogan is “Lettuce Harvest Kurt Friedman, Jorge Maldonado, Aubrey Friedman, Rebecca Rhew, Taylor Scribner, Sheila Finney, Your Crops” and they plan to Bryant Slawson, Serina Riley, Betsy Friedman (Sponsor), Kylie Krauss, and Taylee Moss. (Not harvest a win. pictured Hannah Brown and Grace Jones) community involvement and the electricity that comes with that Sherman Denison Battle of the continued from page 2 Axe is so impressive and Howe and Van Houston and Texas Central railway brought to Alstyne had the same rivalry, but on a smaller both towns in the early years of their existence. scale. We were able to work with those in Van Not soon after the towns were formed, they Alstyne back in 2001 to share cost of the trophy started playing football against each other. But and make this something special. However, it those early years prior to 1920 formation of the won't be truly special until it comes to Howe's UIL do not formally count and Howe didn't trophy case." said Walker. 10/24/1941 Howe 7 at Van Alstyne 31 even field a UIL sanctioned team until 1935.
Spike
Howe first played Van Alstyne on October 24, 1941 which the Panthers won, 31-7. The Spike was created before the 2001 season and that was the year Van Alstyne started the current 9game winning streak over Howe. It also happened to be the same time that Van Alstyne outgrew Howe in enrollment numbers due to the Georgetown edition in their community. Before the current winning streak, Van Alstyne led the series, 25-17-2 but now have double the amount of Howe's wins thanks to the recent stretch. Howe's longest winning streak versus the Panthers was four games from 1977-1980. When the trophy was originated in 2001, then Van Alstyne Head Coach Randy Matthews told the Van Alstyne Leader, "Because of the closeness of the two towns and what this rivalry means to so many people, I hope everybody will be up for this game and prepared to play. When you have a game like this with so much emotion, there's always big plays involved." The Spike was is akin to Sherman and Denison's Battle of the Axe which Walker was a radio broadcaster for those games from 19942003 and television broadcaster in 2008. "The
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Monte Walker presents the Spike to Van Alstyne's John Paul Jay in 2013.
