Ange’s Thoughts
What a fantastic night we enjoyed last week with the RoboRebels telling us about competing in the recent World Robotics Championships in Houston, Texas. They attracted many interested guests as well as a good roll up of members. Narooma High’s team of five students – Kye Potter, Harmony Canon, Harrison McKee, Matthew Brooks and Linc McLeod-Scott took us on an amazing journey. They had won the FIRST Robotics South Pacific Regional Championships in Wollongong qualifying them for the World Championships.
These wonderful, inspiring students took the stage and ran the show to everyone’s delight. We enjoyed the clever, short film made about their unique US experience which also included dinner with the Australian Consul-General in Houston, visit to NASA and the Texas Medical Centre Innovation Accelerator. Each spoke enthusiastically about their experiences at Narooma High designing, building, programming and coding their competition robot. We were also treated to some other demo robots.
Congratulations RoboRebels. You have done Narooma proud under the dedicated and ongoing mentorship of teachers Gayle Allison and Christine Potts.
It was our pleasure to donate $500 towards their costs. We hope that their participation in this international event will encourage them all to dream big and seek opportunities to use their fantastic skills in the future. They are inspiring many other students.
NO MEETING THIS WEEK
The meeting originally scheduled for this Thursday has been moved to Thursday 22nd. This was due to a slight miscommunication between us and the Golf Club. Not having a meeting this week has been welcomed by many because it was otherwise going to be a really full on month.
The Week that Was
More on RoboRebels
The RoboRebels experience at the Robotics World Championships in Texas really was mind blowing. They were one of 600 teams competing in front of 30,000 people. It was huge! While everyone was competitive, the Narooma team was really touched about how so many other teams genuinely offered any assistance they needed.
Unfortunately we did not get to meet the competition Robot 5988 which was on its way home, but the team introduced us to their three different stages of robots from the small and basic through to larger more complex competition robots. This team have been into robotics since primary school, and have been mentoring others throughout their secondary years. Hats off to Narooma teachers Gayle Allison and Christine Potts; with four of the five team finishing school this year, Gayle and Christine had some initial fears about finding students for a whole new competition team. Those fears are now over; these students are inspiring others.
You have been officially invited
Changeover is our most prestigious event in the year. This week Secretary Gero has sent to all members an official invitation to Changeover. Please note Gero asks that you please let her know by Friday 23rd June if you are coming with the number of guests; please pay at the same time online into our Administration account (detail on invitation). It should be a great night.
Bay Rotarian will be District DG 2025-2026
Robert Shore from the Rotary Club of Batemans Bay has been selected as District Governor Nominee Designate. If his selection is not challenged, he will be DG in 2025-2026.Congratulations Robert from Narooma Rotarians!
NEXT THURSDAY
Guest speakers Moruya Rotarians Shirley Cornish and John Gillett will report on Moruya Rotary contingent at the recent RI Convention in Melbourne.
We will also have as our special guest our 2024 International Exchange Student Lachie Penglase.