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EDUCATION
Umatilla Robotics
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championships
Team will compete
for 3rd time
By JENNIFER COLTON
Staff Writer
STAFF PHOTO BY JENNIFER COLTON
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OSU awards siblings with twin scholarships
OSU award
totals $80,000
By JENNIFER COLTON
Staff Writer
Hermiston twins were
surprised with $80,000 in
scholarships, Wednesday
at Hermiston High School.
“I didn’t know this was
going on. My dad said he
was picking us up, and I
thought we were going
somewhere else,” Andrea
Gispert-Tello said. “I had
no idea.”
Gispert-Tello and her
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surprised the twins with
the formal award, adding
the scholarship is awarded
to less than 1 percent of
OSU admitted freshmen.
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shown tremendous leader-
ship and academic excel-
lence,” Hutchinson said.
“They should really be
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accomplished.”
To be considered for a
Presidential Scholarship,
students must be a cur-
rent Oregon high school
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3.85 unweighted GPA and
a minimum score of 1900
SAT or 29 ACT. Appli-
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on accomplishments per-
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within the context of so-
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intellectual and leadership
abilities.
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a year for four years, for
a total of $40,000 per stu-
dent.
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college list, and the twins
said if they do not attend
OSU, they likely will not
attend the same college. An-
drea hopes to study chemi-
cal engineering and pre-med
to become a dermatologist;
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national business.
Each student has also
been accepted into pres-
tigious programs for the
spring and summer, in-
cluding a two-week pro-
gram at NYU Shanghai
for Andrea and a program
at Occidental College in
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“I am really proud,” fa-
ther Gabino Gispert said.
“Really proud.”
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years, Umatilla Robotics
will compete at the World
Championships.
This weekend, Umatilla’s
FIRST Robotics Competi-
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Northwest District Champi-
onships in Portland against
159 teams from Oregon and
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brought home the Engineer-
ing Inspiration Award, an
honor celebrating outstand-
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respect and appreciation for
engineering within a team’s
school and community.
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lead robotics clubs and class-
es at McNary Heights Ele-
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“It’s really cool this year
because we’re going to the
championships on a complete-
ly different path. This isn’t just
about the efforts of the robot,
this is a whole team award,”
team mentor Kyle Sipe said
Monday. “This award reflects
what the whole team does in
this community.”
Only one team from each
regional competition can win
the Engineering Inspiration
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Umatilla Robotics to com-
pete at the world champi-
onships, April 27-30 in St.
Louis, Mo. At the champion-
ship, 900 teams and 20,000
students from 39 countries
will compete. Among those
students will be the 48 mem-
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and hotels and talking to
Mid-Columbia about bus-
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out the logistics of how
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there,” Sipe said.
Team Confidential com-
peted in two Pacific Northwest
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The team qualified for the
regional competition by win-
ning the Chairman’s Award at
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and the Engineering Inspira-
tion Award at the other.
Umatilla Robotics is ac-
cepting donations to help the
team during the trip to St. Lou-
is. For more information or to
donate, contact Umatilla High
School at 541-922-6525.
For a full breakdown of
how Umatilla’s team fared
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