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International remote robotics tournament to begin Monday
Special to the Herald-Banner
May 14, 2021
Based in Greenville Texas, the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit and VEX Robotics-centered organization, is back to showcase the incredible talent and skill of a range of student competitors by hosting the first-ever Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship, which will begin Monday and continue until Friday, May 29.
Leveraging the REC Foundation s Live Remote Tournament interface, teams from around the world will be able to compete in real-time tournaments or live skills matches to be crowned champions.
Greenvilleâs teams will physically be competing at REC s Central Command at Innovation First, at 1519 I-30, and the event will begin streaming live at 12:30 p.m. Monday, on RECâs YouTube channel (just search on YouTube for RECFoundation).
Northeast Texas Trail, Facebook
Hank Pickering of Wolfe City, a supporter of the Northeast Texas Trail, says the NETT had a record number of users in 2020, at least in nearby Lamar County, possibly because people were looking for places to get outside during the coronavirus pandemic. Trail usage with electronic counters in Lamar county for 2020 came to 163,555. 2019 was 130,324. Hank says the NETT is still in the process of seeking status as a state park.
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Pud Kearns with Housewarmers of Greenville comments on Saturday s quarterly citywide cleanup project in Greenville. Greenville citizens may bring many large items to the Fletcher Warren Civic Center to be disposed of, not including air conditioners and refrigerators, batteries and chemicals. Pud also says the Audie Murphy-American Cotton Museum has a new exhibit, The African-American Experience in Hunt County, which includes video interviews and artifacts. The exhibit is open through April 24. At least some of the videos are available on YouTube.
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NASA Orion Spacecraft, CC-BY-NC 2.0, Creative Commons
Dr. Kent Montgomery, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M-Commerce, considers the major space projects planned for 2021. One is the DART project, in which NASA and the Japanese space agency are sending a spacecraft to collide with an asteroid, as a way of developing a method of protecting Earth against a disastrous collision. Also, NASA will attempt to land an Orion space capsule on the moon, with plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024.