The following update was provided to the Owl by the Robotics Overlord known as Cary Gumbert. As we all know by now, the Owl does love a robotics team, especially one named Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect (GNCE): +++ GNCE Diamond, Weston’s 2nd-year WHS/WMS advanced STEM team, swept the inaugural FIRST New England Invitational on Friday, April 5. GNCE Diamond emerged
Read moreWhy yes, it IS another post about the Weston High School robotics teams. Scroll on by if you’re feeling crabby about that, but you will miss a fun story submitted by Cary Gumbert, and now copied in its entirety below. ++ It was an action-packed day for all three Weston Robotics teams at the MA State Championship this weekend. GNCE
Read moreFolks, Weston High School is totally going nuts this week. I cannot keep up. There are a bunch of runners from Weston High School Indoor track at nationals today, tomorrow and Sunday, there are bunches of students at the DECA state championships today and now our Robotics Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect team is also at states tomorrow (not on the
Read moreAs most Owl readers know, the Weston Owl is a MAJOR fan of our robotics teams which hang out under the umbrella name of Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect or GNCE. What some of you may not know is that the Weston Owl was honored by the team by having the Owl logo on the back of their team shirts. If I
Read moreThe following Robotics teams informational update was provided by Cary Gumbert, Overlord of Robotics programs, as well as Alyson Muzila, coach of the 6th grade Aquatic Chickens, which makes her the Oceanic Hen, or something like that. ++ Six of the Weston’s eight (8!!) robotics teams went to their first competitions of the season this weekend. The competitions were spread
Read moreAnd now for the latest in Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect news. I only wish I could add in the Muppet Show “Pigs in Space” theme song but it turns out all members of the GNCE have zero idea what or who the Muppet Show or Pigs in Space is. Sigh. This is fine cultural stuff, folks, just from the 70s
Read moreMark your calendar for the grand opening of the Robotics and Engineering Lab! Weston Elementary families are invited to join WEEFC on Sunday, November 19, from 2-3pm at Weston Middle School. As you probably know, the Owl is a big fan of the robotics team (now teams plural) and is always up for a viewing of the Chicken in action. You
Read moreThree of eight (!!!!) Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect (GNCE) robotics teams attended the Kickoff of Massachusetts STEM week at Boston University this morning. GNCE’s WHS seniors were able to invite the 6th grade GNCE Aquatic Chickens (mentored by Alyson Muzila) and the 7th grade Galactic Narwhals (mentored by Pary Fassihi and Tiao Xie) to join them at the event. Does
Read moreThis past weekend, four Weston High School clubs and teams dazzled the crowds at the Cambridge Science Festival, a fair devoted to showing off the impact of science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) in everyday life. The two clubs are the 3D Printing Club and the Innovation Invention Club and there were two teams from the Galactic Narwhal Chicken
Read more. On Tuesday this week, the Owl braved the microburst/macrodeluge/crazyclimatechange to get an insider’s tour of the newly-opened Robotics Lab at Weston Middle School. After wading across a rapidly rising lake at the front of the school (10 points to me for leaving my Bogs water boots in the car that morning), the Owl was transported into the somewhat crashy-bangy-zippy
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