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Easing access to women’s health care Center honors Margaret Carpenter have to travel to multiple locations for vital health services. The Rockaways, hospital What’s being called the first officials said, are “geographicomprehensive women’s health cally isolated,” part of a “transcenter on the Rockaway Penin- portation desert.” Traveling to sula has opened to other parts of the much fanfare. city for women’s Episcopal Health health services can Services — which take more than an operates St. John’s hour using public Episcopal Hospital transportation. in Far Rockaway — The Rockaways welcomed some 100 see a higher rate of people to its new pre gnant women Margaret O. Carwho seek late or no p e n t e r Wo m e n ’s prenatal care when Health Center at compared to New 1 0 5 - 3 8 Ro ck aw ay York City overall, B e a c h B l vd . , i n according to health Ro c k aw ay P a rk . o f f i c i a l s. B re a s t Named for a longcancer is a leading time hospital supcause of premature porter, the health DoNoVAN death in the Rockacenter’s goals are to RICHARDS JR. ways, and the death improve access to Queens borough rate for cancer is women’s health serhigher than the vices — which offi- president overall rate in New cials said are York City. severely lacking in the Far Carpenter has volunteered Rockaway and Rockaway com- at the hospital since the 1970s, munities — while offering mul- according to St. John’s Episcotiple medical specialties and pal Hospital chief executive new equipment. Gerald Walsh, later joining its With multiple specialties board of trustees. Carpenter under one roof, patients won’t Continued on page 12
By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
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BRIAN CHEN AND Ethan Abelev, both juniors, worked on their team’s robot.
Hewlett High robotics team aims to be world champion
RoboBoogie prepares to compete in Houston By STEVEN KEEHNER nassauedior@liherald.com
On Fridays, when the last bell sounds at 2:56 p.m., most Hewlett High School students celebrate the end of the school week. Members of the school’s Robotics Club, however, know that their day is far from over. Club members first make space in a science classroom, and then they unload their equipment. By 3:15, Room 234 has been transformed
into a robotics laboratory. For the next six hours, roughly 60 students will be busy here, and in the adjacent hallway. “These kids basically do an 11th class, but they do it all on Friday night,” said Janine Torresson, the Robotics Club coach. “They put in more hours than if they took an engineering class, and they do it on their own time.” Torresson, the Discovery program teacher at Hewlett Elementary School, oversees three Continued on page 14
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