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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019
School youth help
community through
CommuniCare
The Astorian
Clatsop OGPC
RoboFruit Studios presents their video game Nukia to a panel of fi ve judges in the gym at Western Oregon University during
the Oregon Game Project Challenge.
Students participate in Oregon Game Project Challenge
The Astorian
Eleven students from
Clatsop County traveled to
participate in the Oregon
Game Project Challenge
(OGPC), hosted at Western
Oregon University in Mon-
mouth. Seventy-eight teams
of middle and high-school
aged students from all over
Oregon presented video
games they have been devel-
oping since November to
a panel of judges and their
peers.
Clatsop OGPC consists of
two teams who met at Clat-
sop Community College
nearly every Wednesday for
the last seven months. Stu-
dents from Seaside, War-
renton and Astoria middle
schools and Astoria High
School participated. The
RoboFruit Studios team
included an “honorary” fi fth-
grade member, as well.
Teams design the game,
rules and goals, write stories
and characters, create visual
art, record sound effects and
music and write computer
code to make it all work. In
addition, the students focus
on public speaking, presenta-
tions and marketing for their
game.
GRADUATES/
HONOR ROLL
The following students
have qualifi ed for the honor
roll by earning a 3.5 grade
point average or higher at
school.
Eastern New Mexico
University
Portales, New Mexico
Astoria: Clayne Williams.
RoboFruit Studios cre-
ated the game Nukia, and
because one of the members
is a freshman, they entered
the High School Division.
Game designers were Victor
Croddy, Noah Betts, Wyatt
Macdonald, Maia Fay, Eliot
Adams and Etienne Adams.
The team Potato Knights
— Ruben Saucedo, Logan
Milliron, Devon Sauer, Wyat
Handler and Eddie Tem-
pleton — also entered their
game, The Great Potato
Famine.
Both games tied into
this years theme of “Scar-
city.” Game creation through
OGPC encompasses the
entire STEAM focus (Sci-
ence, Technology, Engi-
neering, Art and design, and
Mathematics) in one unifi ed
program.
The Clatsop OGPC was
founded and facilitated by a
volunteer mother, and runs
entirely on volunteer-paren-
tal support. Clatsop Commu-
nity College provided admin-
istrative support, and funding
was donated by Soldier Sis-
ter LLC on behalf of the late
Staff Sgt. Curtis Fairless.
For information, go
to ogpc.info and fb.me/
clatsopogpc
Baked Alaska offers fundraiser luncheon
The Astorian
Baked Alaska will host
a pay-what-you-can lunch
in partnership with an Aus-
tralian chef next month at
its Nekst Event annex.
Baked Alaska chef
and co-owner Christo-
pher Holen, as part of
his Chef Outta Water
Chef exchange program,
is hosting Chef Michael
Brine of the Touch of
Salt restaurant in Towns-
ville, Queensland, Austra-
lia. The two are partnering
on the lunch June 13 with
culinary students from
Tongue Point Job Corps
Center. Profi ts from the
lunch will go to support
the United Way of Clatsop
County.
Holen and Brine will
also partner on a ticketed
Father’s Day dinner June
16. Nekst Event is located
at the foot of 12th Street
on the Astoria Riverwalk.
WARRENTON
—
CommuniCare closed out
its 22nd year with the
North Coast Grant Awards
Ceremony on May 15 at
the Astoria Golf & Coun-
try Club.
The
Communi-
Care program channels
the Harold and Arlene
Schnitzer CARE Foun-
dation’s commitment to
small, community giv-
ing through a school-
based youth philanthropy
program.
During the fall and win-
ter months, students are
challenged to raise up to
$1,500, which is matched
10:1 by the CARE Foun-
dation. In the spring, stu-
dents act as community
grantmakers by awarding
local nonprofi ts the funds
raised and matched for
their programs.
Local
participat-
ing high schools include
Seaside, Warrenton and
Astoria high schools,
which together will grant
$51,000 to help make the
community a better place.
For information, go to
communicareor.org
Astoria FFA installs
offi cers, raises $7,361
Melissa Linder-Cho
The Astoria Future Farmers of America held its 45th
Chapter Banquet on May 2, the fi rst as a chapter since
the program was shut down in 2011. During the event,
the 2019-20 chapter offi cer team was installed. Pictured,
the chapter offi cers from left to right: Sentinel Shelby
Rasmussen, Treasurer Jameson Linder, Vice President
Marcus Rasmussen, President Marlee Walter, Secretary Ali
Clark, Reporter Baylee McSwain and Adviser Tess Hamby.
The banquet celebrated the successes and achievements
of the members, and honored the loyal supporters and
alumni who have helped the program grow throughout
the year. Astoria High School Principal Lynn Jackson spoke
to the crowd, and FFA members receiving awards for
their achievements included Allison Keeling, Samantha
Davenport and Lacey Arwood. Almost 200 people were in
attendance, and $7,361 was raised from the silent and live
auctions run by the Astoria FFA Alumni.
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