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Robotics team on its way to world championship
5K run/walk to honor Shoreview avid runner BY NOELLE OLSON SHOREVIEW PRESS EDITOR
Longtime Shoreview resident Rene McCoy lost her battle with pancreatic cancer on Dec. 1, 2020, but her legacy lives on with the first Monarch Fund 5K run/ walk on Sunday, April 23, at Snail Lake Regional Park. “My wife Rene was an active runner, and ran every day,” said Brian McCoy, Rene’s husband of 39 years. “She loved running at Snail Lake Park. Sometimes she would run in the morning and then she’d walk with somebody in the afternoon or bike ride with somebody in the evening. It was a social connection for her.” Craig McCoy, Brian’s brother, is managing the event. “Participants for the kids’ run will get a T-shirt, and they will need to sign up on the website,” Craig said. “For people who don’t want to do the full 5K, which is 3.1 miles, we have another event called a bench walk. It only goes about a mile and ends up where there’s a memorial bench for Rene in the park.” Brian and Rene’s next door neighbor, Mary Marvin, came up with the idea of a bench at Snail Lake Park in honor of Rene. “Mary and Rene were best friends, and Mary wasn’t a runner, she was a walker,” Brian said.
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FIRST Tech Challenge state champions Spontaneous Construction. Members of the youth robotics team are (top row from left) Derek Wu, Emily Springer, Leigha Wood and Ian Buerge. (bottom row from left) Henry Kempenich, Brian Yang, Zion Gibson, Jackie Lee and Aaron Lam. The team is heading to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship later this month.
The youth robotics team Spontaneous Construction is heading to the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship from April 19-22, in Houston, Texas. FIRST stands for — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. The nine-member team is composed of juniors and seniors from Mounds View and Southwest high schools. Team members built a robot to grab cones and stack them on different poles, and took first place at the Minnesota FIRST Tech Challenge state tournament. “This is our fifth year as a team, and we’ve always strived
for the goal of winning state and making our way to the world championship,” team member Jackie Lee said. “After seeing all five years of our hard work accumulate to this one moment, it felt very unrealistic at first, but then it’s finally happening. We saw this coming because we know we’ve worked so hard to get to this spot.” Team member Aaron Lam said being state champions is gratifying because the team worked hard on its robot. “It’s a collective community where we’re our own teams building our own robots but a lot of the time we’re also meeting with other teams and working with them,” Lam said. “Over time, we slowly grew into this one team that everybody in
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