Arlington Times, July 25, 2012

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NeoBots members mentor students BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

ARLINGTON — School was out for summer, but that didn’t stop students from teaching other students from July 18-20 in the computer-aided design and wood-shop building behind Arlington High School. Four students and 11 student mentors from the AHS NeoBots Team worked with 39 students from all the elementary and middle schools in the Arlington School District, plus one student from Marysville and another from SedroWoolley, to teach them the essentials of robotics, and to promote science, technology, engineering and math topics in the process. AHS Career and Technical Education Director Brett Sarver explained that an elementary school teacher whose son is on the NeoBots

Team suggested it as a means of getting other elementary and middle school students into STEM topics. During those three days, students such as lead instructor and AHS NeoBots Team President Dan Radion explained to the elementary and middle school students how to write programs for their robots, before the student mentors took those kids’ robots out for test drives on simple obstacle courses after they’d been programmed. “A robot is only as smart as the person who wrote its programs,” Radion said. “They can do a lot of really cool stuff, but they won’t know how to do it until you tell them.” Radion taught the elementary and middle school students the basic language SEE ROBOTICS, PAGE 2

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Arlington High School NeoBots Team student mentor Caroline Vogl, left, explains to SedroWoolley student Josiah Velogoes and Arlington student Junha Lee the mechanics of their robot on July 18.

Community gathers to remember Mumm BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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Twin Rivers Park served as the site for a candlelight vigil for former Arlington student Ryan Mumm, after his shooting on July 14.

ARLINGTON — Former Arlington student Ryan Mumm was memorialized by more than 200 of his friends, family members and other loved ones during an evening candlelight vigil at Twin Rivers Park on Tuesday, July 17, just three days after he was fatally shot in the head, at the age of 20, at Blue Stilly Park, just northeast of Island Crossing. Although Mumm had since moved to Stanwood, the 2010 graduate of Weston High School was still remembered fondly by his peers, who had been notified of the vigil through Facebook by Carlee Duncan, one of Mumm’s many friends to share stories and shed tears over their fallen friend

that night. “I’d love to hear your stories about Ryan,” said Gary Mumm, Ryan’s father. “They’re all I have left of him now. I want to hear Ryan Mumm what my son meant to all of you.” In spite of the somber occasion, the gathering broke out into laughter as several points, as those who had attended school alongside Ryan Mumm described him as a giving, happy-go-lucky, often mischievous character. Duncan herself credited Ryan with teaching her how to snowboard, while SEE MUMM, PAGE 2

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