An Andover school is one step closer to having an extra classroom added on the school site. Harrow Way School, located on the eponymous road, has had no objection to plans to install a single modular classroom by Test Valley Borough Council (TVBC). The school currently has 955 pupils, and is set to increase by a further 30 by 2021/2022, with the classroom to be on site for a period of seven years to meet this increase in pupil numbers The hope is that the classroom will be a stopgap while plans to expand the school permanently are explored. The new building will measure around 107 square metres, and will be delivered in units built in a factory. These will then be craned into position before being bolted together to form a single building.
Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo)
When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.”
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Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to understand, and it’s easy to fit on shelves. Retailers like it. The platform owners like it. This is the way it’s been for decades simple, predictable, and safe.
For the Helping Hands Outreach Ministry at New Covenant United Methodist Church, COVID-19 meant helping hands became idle.
âCOVID-19 really put a damper in our ministry last year,â said Thom Hays, director of communications for Helping Hands. âWe did some repair work on a few of the homes we previously built over the summer, but it wasnât much.â
Before COVID-19 shut down area houses of worship last spring, Helping Hands put the finishing touches on the 30th home it built for an area family. It took until the late summer for the ministry to begin work on its 31st home.