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UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR
East Oregonian
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Robo camp ends with demo
By SEAN HART
East Oregonian
Children had the opportunity to build
a different set of skills at the Umatilla
County Fair this year.
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the fair, students entering grades six
through nine spent two days building
robots out of LEGOs and program-
ming the computers that controlled
them.
Members of Umatilla High School’s
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dential instructed the class Wednesday
and Thursday, and the children gave
a demonstration Saturday. Instructor
Megan Lorence said the participants
were very enthusiastic.
“At lunch, they scarfed down their
lunches and went right to work,” she
said. “I think they loved it.”
The participants had varying levels of
previous experience, Lorence said, but
none had worked with LEGO robotics
before. The robots could be built with
tracks or wheels and used sensors that
detected walls.
“We were able to give them that
exposure, and they caught on really
quickly,” she said. “It was fun to see
them get it.”
Keagan McCann, 11, from Herm-
iston, came into the camp with no
experience, but Lorence said he quickly
became one of the best programmers at
the camp.
“I’ve always looked at robotics
stuff,” he said. “I thought it would be
cool to do.”
McCann and Keston Depner, 12,
from Hermiston, created a robotic tank
with a variety of accessories.
Staff photo by Sean Hart
Allen Waggoner, from Pilot Rock, won the men’s di-
vision of the Umatilla County Fair watermelon seed
spitting contest Saturday with the longest distance
of the competition at 39 feet 2 inches. Waggoner is
the father of fair court princess Kaleigh Waggoner,
who helped measure the distances in the contest
with the other princesses.
Waggoner spits
seed nearly 40 ft.
to win contest
By SEAN HART
East Oregonian
More than 30 people
showed their watermelon
seed spitting skills in a
contest at the Umatilla
County Fair Saturday.
The fair court measured
the distances, and Allen
Waggoner, the father
of
princess
Kaleigh
Waggoner, spit the farthest
at 39 feet 2 inches.
The contest was split
into four divisions, and
each contestant had three
chances.
Eight
contestants
competed in the 7 and
younger children’s divi-
sion. Lincoln Zamudio,
a 6-year-old from Herm-
iston, took home the top
prize of a ribbon, a T-shirt
and a watermelon with
a distance of 24 feet 2
inches. Hermiston siblings
Brielle and Levi Bonzani
placed second and third
with distances of 19 feet
6 inches and 15 feet 8
inches, respectively.
Matthew Demianew,
a
14-year-old
from
Pendleton, won the youth
division, comprised of
8- through 15-year-olds,
with a distance of 33 feet
11 inches. In second place,
Andrew Demianew, 11,
Pendleton, spit 29 feet 5
inches, and Jack Bonzani,
from Hermiston, earned
third place with a distance
of 29 feet.
In the ladies division, six
competed, and Hermiston
resident Angela Bonzani
had the longest distance at
25 feet 9 inches. Fair court
princess Catie Krumbah
Kuhar, a 17-year-old from
Milton-Freewater, placed
second with a distance
of 22 feet 10 inches, and
Pendleton resident Tiffany
Legore placed third with
a distance of 19 feet 8
inches.
Five competed in the
men’s division, and Don
Legore, from Pendleton,
was just behind Waggoner
with a distance of 39 feet.
Pendleton resident Tom
Demianew placed third
with a distance of 37 feet.
Staff photo by Sean Hart
Keston Depner, left, and Keagan McCann work on a LEGO robot Saturday
they created during the robotics day camp at the Umatilla County Fair.
— Keston Depner,
Hermiston
“Originally, we just were using the
instruction manual to create a little car
with tank tracks, but we wanted some-
thing better because what’s the use of
having something called a tank if it’s
just tracks?” Depner said. “So we put
on the catapult, and later we added the
drill, and we put on all the sensors, and
we gave it the trailer.”
Depner, who had some experience
Pendleton teen
wins apple pie
eating contest
By SEAN HART
East Oregonian
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New eating contests at the Umatilla
County Fair offered fairgoers another
way to get in on the action this year.
At the apple pie eating contest
Saturday, Matthew Demianew, a
14-year-old from Pendleton, ate the most
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Kari Tripp, a 13-year-old from Weston,
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iston resident Steve Walker came in third.
Fiesta Foods also sponsored jalapeño
and mango eating contests earlier in the
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will be even bigger next year.
Matthew Demianew, left, and Kari Tripp, third from left, eat an apple pie
without using their hands in the pie eating contest at the Umatilla County
Fair Saturday. Demianew, a 14-year-old from Pendleton, won the contest,
and Tripp, a 13-year-old from Weston, placed second.
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with robotics, said he learned a lot at the
camp about programming and using the
“brain” of the robot.
“You gotta have patience because
sometimes it doesn’t work,” he said.
Lorence, who also teaches robotics
to younger students at the science,
technology, engineering and math
after school academy in Umatilla, said
working on robotics projects teaches
students many skills applicable in other
areas. Students learn how to complete
goals on deadlines and collaborate
within a team and with other teams, she
said.
“We always say it’s more than just
building robots,” she said. “It’s about
learning life skills that can get you
anywhere.”
“You gotta have patience
because sometimes it
doesn’t work.”
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