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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016
College robotics team heads to NASA
MORE INFORMATION:
Only team in
the state to
advance in
competition
To donate to the robotics team, send a check to Clatsop Community
College, 1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria, OR 97103, with “ROV team”
in the memo line. The team is also on Facebook.
tor Dennis Degner introduced
him to the program and men-
tored the team the fi rst year.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Second Home
After beating out the likes
of Linn-Benton Community
College and Oregon State
University in Newport, Clat-
sop Community College is
the only collegiate team in
the state heading to NASA’s
Neutral Buoyancy Labora-
tory in Houston for Marine
Advanced Technology Edu-
cation’s underwater robotics
competition.
The college’s team, nick-
named SQUAD (Specialized
TasQ-force for Underwater
Advanced Development), will
go up against 31 other mostly
research universities from 12
states and 10 countries to see
who has the best submersible
robot.
Leading the group is
CEO and mathematics major
Georges Oates Larse n, who
has put in more than 1,500
hours designing Magnifi cus
“Maggie” Praesegmen (Latin
for Magnifi cent Scrap), the
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College’s underwater robotics team is headed by physics instructor
Pat Keefe, left. From left to right are team members Georges Oates Larsen, Sam Diare,
Darby Cullen and L Goyena.
college’s most advanced robot
ever. The robot will have to
complete an underwater obsta-
cle course transitioning an oil
rig into an artifi cial reef.
Team project
Helping Larsen are stu-
dents Darby Cullen, the vice
president of research and
design; Sam Diare, the vice
president of manufacturing;
and L Goyena, the vice presi-
dent of publicity.
The team has spent $1,300
building Maggie, while Cullen
said some of their competition
can spend $20,000 or more on
their robots. The team has sub-
sisted largely on donations,
scavenged parts from previous
robots and the personal credit
card of p hysics instructor Pat
Keefe, who oversees what
he said is the most advanced
robotics team the college has
ever fi elded.
“They’re totally self-mo-
tivated,” he said. “I try to
squelch them, because I can
see my credit card maxing
out.”
Keefe buys a lot of the
parts, and said he charged
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
FRIDAY
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the airfare for the group to
his credit card. He said the
team needs about $1,000 in
donations to recoup what he
spent on airfare, and could
spend up to $500 more on
materials for Maggie, which
still needs pressure sensors
and an operable claw for the
competition.
Keefe was around in 2006,
the fi rst year the college qual-
ifi ed for internationals, also
in Houston, and placed fourth
for their class and in the top 10
over the next four years. He
said former maritime instruc-
County supports property tax
break to benefi t Goodding’s family
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PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash.
— With the start of the Pacifi c
Northwest’s normally bone-
dry summer still two weeks
away, a sharp drop in precipi-
tation this spring has reversed
local water supplies built up
during a notably wet winter.
Pacifi c County is experi-
encing its lowest stream fl ows
on record in the Willapa and
Naselle Rivers, the Pacifi c
County Emergency Manage-
ment Agency said Tuesday.
The Naselle River, which
fl ows into Willapa Bay in
south-central Pacifi c County,
is currently at 40 cubic feet per
second, the lowest for the date
in 86 years of record keeping.
It was 60 cfs at this time last
year. The long-term average
stream fl ow for June 7 is 156
cfs.
The Willapa River, which
enters the bay from the coun-
ty’s northeastern and eastern
hills, currently has stream fl ow
of 52 cfs, lowest on record for
this date in 61 years of record
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keeping. It was 64 cfs at this
time last year. The long-term
average for the date is 207 cfs.
“The National Weather Ser-
vice indicates that while we are
looking at much cooler tem-
peratures over the next week,
with a little precipitation, it
will not result in any major
changes to stream fl ow,” emer-
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These dry conditions
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of wildfires in the coun-
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forestland.
June 8, 2016
WUCHERPFENNIG, Steven Lee, 67, of Seaside, died in
Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary Crematory in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements. Visit www.hughes-ransom.com to
share memories and sign the guest book.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Seaside Convention Center
Commission, 5 p.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Gearhart Planning Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 698
Pacifi c Way.
Wickiup Water District Board,
6:30 p.m., 92648 Svensen Mar-
ket Road, Svensen.
Friday
Sunset Empire Transportation
District Budget Committee, 9
a.m., presentation of 2016-2017
budget, Astoria Transit Center
Conference Room, 900 Marine
Drive.
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killed in February trying to
arrest a man on a felony assault
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The county’s approval fol-
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allows counties to grant prop-
erty tax breaks up to $250,000
to a surviving spouse.
It could benefi t Seaside
Police Sgt. Jason Goodding’s
wife .
Goodding was shot and
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Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.09"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.82"
Year to date .................................... 37.31"
Normal year to date ........................ 34.43"
First
The Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners passed a
resolution Wednesday sup-
porting a property tax break to
the surviving spouses of police
offi cers and fi refi ghters killed
in the line of duty.
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Wednesday.
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Normal high/low ........................... 63°/49°
Record high ............................ 82° in 1932
Record low ............................. 39° in 1933
The formation of the cur-
rent team started when Larsen,
a homeschooler, came to the
college for an orientation.
“I saw (Larsen) and said
‘that kid’s mine,’” Keefe
joked.
By the end of orientation,
Larsen was helping Keefe
untangle a tether to the old
underwater robot. Larsen
reconnected with Diare, a
childhood friend, at a vol-
unteer event creating elec-
tric cars for children with dis-
abilities and talked him into
joining.
Cullen, who is helping
Larsen build another robot to
search for shipwrecks off the
Oregon Coast with the Mari-
time Archaeological Society,
said he met her in an engi-
neering class, saw her man-
ufacturing abilities and said
he needed someone com-
petent to build props. Goy-
ena was friends with Cul-
len, squeezed her way into
the team’s weekly meetings
and has taken charge of the
group’s fundraising.
Only Diare is returning
next year, while Larsen heads
to Portland State University to
study theoretical mathemat-
ics. Goyena and Cullen are
attending Oregon State Uni-
versity to study pharmacol-
ogy and mechanical engineer-
ing, respectively.
The team estimates more
than 2,300 hours spent
between them designing Mag-
gie, fundraising and readying
for the regional and now inter-
national competitions.
“This is our second home,
pretty much,” Goyena said.
If the team wins at NASA,
Keefe said, all they get is
a plaque. But for the team
members, the competition has
been more about their bud-
ding friendships and getting
to NASA.
“I don’t think it’s as much
about winning this as it is
about the opportunity,” Cul-
len said. “I’m excited about
the doors it will open.”
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