Neighborhood news - Apr 2024

Southwest High School’s robotics team is headed to Houston, Texas, to compete in the FIRST Robotic World Championship April 18-20, 2024. FIRST Robotics Competition is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year’s game. With only weeks to work on it, Southwest’s team designed, prototyped, built and programmed their robot, then trained drivers and human players. Said Southwest Principal Ed Bennett, “We’re so proud of our robotics team for making it to the world championships, but we’re also proud of the STEM learning, the problem solving and teamwork that went into developing our robot.”

 

Whittier students campaigned for electric buses, writing letters to leadership explaining how clean buses are better for the environment. The Minneapolis School District showed off its electric school buses on April 9 and announced it is getting two more through a Clean School Bus Program grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Highland Electric Fleets. MPS Superintendent Dr. Lisa Sayles-Adams said, “We know electric school buses will save MPS money in operating costs and repairs, but more importantly, research shows clean buses have many benefits for students: Children who breathe lower diesel gas emissions are healthier, miss fewer days in school and tend to have better test scores. ... What makes these buses even better is the fact that MPS students wrote letters asking the district to buy them.”

 

Tending the Soil, a coalition of five local nonprofits and labor organizations, wants to create a job training center with administrative offices and a public gathering space within the the vacant YWCA building located on Hennepin Ave between Isles Bun & Coffee and Walker Library.

 

On Friday, March 22 at 1 p.m. a garbage truck hit a power pole which fell onto the 19 Bar at 19 W. 15th St. Hot wires caught the roof on fire. All employees and customers got out without injury. During the time it takes to rebuild the 19 the staff will be out of work. A fundraiser was put together by Bubba Thurn due to a call to action from the community as a means to support the employees financially while they are out of work.

 

Taste of Linden Hills, a fundraiser for LHiNC, is returning again on May 21, 2024. Tickets on sale until sold out. More at lindenhills.org.