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TEC team takes top spot in state auto repair competition

Two St. Clair County TEC students worked as a team to take first place at the state Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition, sponsored by AAA and the Ford Motor Co. Robert McLain, a senior at Yale High School, and Alex Super, a senior at St. Clair High School, will move on to the national contest June 22-24 in Dearborn. The students are seniors in TEC's Automotive Technology II program taught by Russ Cushion and Brian Hunter.

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Learn how to get into the college of your choice

A former admissions official at Dartmouth College will speak to parents and their 10th- and 11th-grade children May 21 about applying to the college of their choice. The program will discuss college application requirements, and how to prepare for the ACT/SAT and other pre-admission tests, among other topics. Admission is free, but registration is required.

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Special summer camps let kids play with, learn from robots

St. Clair County RESA again is sponsoring several week-long camps this summer that will let young people design and build LEGO robots. Students will work on programming and controlling their robots to perform specialized tasks. Cost is $50 per student, which includes lunches. Camps run 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. To register:

RESA, in Marysville:

• June 23-27 (for students who this fall will enter grades 5 or 6)
• July 14-18 (for students who this fall will enter grades 7 or 8)
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Port Huron

• July 7-11 (for students who this fall will enter grades 5 or 6)
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Capac

• July 7-11 (for students who this fall will enter grades 5 or 6)
  
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Spring wildflowers blooming at Pine River Nature Center

Wildflowers are a clear harbinger of spring, and the Pine River Nature Center has an abundance. Learn more about these early bloomers in the latest edition of the nature center's newsletter.

View the spring issue of the nature center's newsletter

Donated equipment to help collision repair students

Mark Pedersen of St. Clair Collision Center shows students at the St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency's (RESA) Technical Education Center how to use an automobile frame straightening rack system. Mark and his wife, Barb, donated the device to the collision repair program that operates out of the TEC building in Marysville. S&S Towing donated its time and equipment to transport the rack to TEC. Craig Richards, the school-to-work coordinator at TEC, estimated the value of the donated system at between $5,000 and $10,000.

At the demonstration are, from left, Cody Brown, a junior from Memphis High School, Mark Pedersen, JJ Lasky, a senior from Marysville High School, Terry Seaton, a junior from Yale High School, and Eric Smith, a senior from Yale.

Photo by Craig Richards, St. Clair County RESA

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