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RESIDENT SAVED BY CAT
ROBOTICS GETS ROLLING
Photo courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Fire Department
Firefighters found a home on Miller Road fully engulfed in flames when they arrived at the scene Wednesday morning.
Early morning blaze destroys north end home Seraine Page | Bainbridge Island Review
Morgan Soltes, 9, works on a robot during a program at Captain Charles Wilkes Elementary earlier this week. Soltes brainstormed alongside other third graders on how to best build simple robots that move.
Students explore being engineers for the day BY SERAINE PAGE
Bainbridge Island Review
When Morgan Soltes grows up, she wants to be an entomologist. But on Tuesday, she had the chance to be an engineer along with the rest of her third-grade class. With the help of an educator from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, some Captain Charles Wilkes Elementary School students created robots to explore science and technology in a new way during a “Robot Garage” program.
“It’s very interesting. I just like robotics. It’s my favorite thing,” said 9-yearold Morgan. “I think it’s important [to learn robotics] so we get transportation, robot friends and ways to store knowledge.” In groups, students built small robots made to store and move tiny objects with the assistance of the Museum of Flight educator Tedrick Mealy, who held three sessions throughout the day to train students on building and using robots. Mealy taught a small history lesson on robots and then gave the students
goals to accomplish by the end of their robotics building, including moving forward, left, right. The final robots had to store items along with picking up small objects. “It’s mainly experimental and tinkering,” he said of the sessions. “It’s definitely nice to get hands on with this stuff.” After getting their robotics kits — including wheels, a control system and other pieces — students took to their hands and knees on the ground to TURN TO ROBOTICS | A22
BY BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review
An elderly man escaped a devastating house fire on Bainbridge Island Wednesday morning after the man’s cat woke him up before flames fully engulfed his home on Miller Road. The residence, a double-wide manufactured home, was destroyed in the blaze, said Assistant Chief Luke Carpenter of the Bainbridge Island Fire Department. Carpenter said the man was the only person home at the time, and he suffered from smoke inhalation but was otherwise OK. The fire was originally reported by just after 4 a.m.
March 11 by a neighbor as a possible brush fire, but firefighters discovered a structure fire when they arrived at the home in the 12300 block of Miller Road. The assistant fire chief said the resident was able to escape the smokefilled home before the fire destroyed the house, and he was already outside when the fire department got to the scene. Carpenter said the resident told firefighters “the cat was making a ruckus,” and he woke up to find smoke in the house. “Apparently he was awakened by the cat,” he said. TURN TO BLAZE | A14
Boys & Girls Club prepping for move to new location BY SERAINE PAGE
Bainbridge Island Review
Photo courtesy of the Boys & Girls Club of Bainbridge Island
Kids at the Boys & Girls Club show their Seahawks spirit outside the club’s existing facility. Club officials announced the organization will move to the Coppertop Park.
The Boys & Girls Club of Bainbridge Island is moving on to bigger and better things. As in, more than 4,000 square feet of better things. After serving more than 3,000 Island kids during the last 15 years, the Boys &
Girls Club of Bainbridge Island will be moving into a larger space in May. The move, officials said, will allow the nonprofit to serve more than double the number of kids it is able to serve now in a modern and kid-friendly facility. The new facility is centrally located in the Coppertop Park, across the street
from both Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School and Woodward Middle School, making it highly accessible to the families the club serves. It will open to the community Monday, May 4. The new facility encompasses 7,900 square feet, and it will allow for the separation of the club’s elementary aged-students (kindergarten
through fourth grade) and the tween program. “I’m just excited about the quality of our programs going up,” said Brooke Beals, the Bainbridge club’s executive director. “It’s been in the works a long time. These kids on the island are great; they deserve TURN TO CLUB | A14