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Press release submitted by University of Illinois Extension Rock Island County 4-H seeks volunteers to help take a National Youth Science Day project to schools and youth agencies October 10th is 4-H National Youth Science Day. In celebration, University of Illinois Extension, Rock Island County 4-H is offering the Eco-Bot Challenge to 5th grade classrooms and youth agencies between the dates of October 10 through mid November. The goal is to help youth enhance their engineering skills by learning to think like a robotics engineer, assembling their own robots, also known as Eco-bots, and control surfaces in order to manage an environmental clean-up. Youth will then test the interaction between the Eco-Bot's environmental engineering design features and various control surface configurations to determine the most effective environmental clean-up solution for a simulated toxic spill. Volunteers are sought to attend an upcoming training so they can help 4-H take the program out to schools and youth agencies in the Illinois Quad Cities. The volunteers will be given supplies and can then select a classroom or community youth group to work with based on the volunteers schedule. The volunteers will help youth assemble their own Eco-Bots. Volunteers can choose to attend one of the following sessions: Trainings to be held at Rock Island County Extension, 321 West 2nd Ave., Milan, IL are on Monday, October 1 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, October 4th from Noon – 1:00 p.m.; and Wednesday, October 10th from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. There will be an additional training from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm at Augustana College on Wednesday, October 10th. Depending on need and sizes of volunteer groups, other training sites can be offered. Register for the training online at U of I Extension, Rock Island County's website: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/hmrs or call (309) 756-9978. Today, more than 400,000 4-H youth participate in robotics and engineering programs through 4-H clubs. Our comprehensive robotics curriculum engages youth in grades 4-12 in the discovery of science concepts related to robotics, the engineering design process and exploration of careers in the field. Thanks to ongoing partnerships with leading engineering and technology-based innovators like Lockheed Martin, Toyota, John Deere and FIRST Robotics, 4-H can provide valuable insight into scientific advances of today—engaging 4-H'ers in solving the world's issues just might mean we find the solutions of tomorrow. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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