Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus will host and compete in the 2018 VEX Robotics State Championship on Friday, March 2 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The competition will bring together over 40 high school teams and 15 college groups to further develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skills in students throughout Arizona.
Challenging students to learn and innovate new designs in robotics engineering and application, the match cultivates lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, and communication. Winning teams go on to participate in the VEX Robotics World Competition in Louisville, Ky., recognized by the Guinness World Records as the largest robotics competition on earth.
“With high school and college students being at the event, it allows for the high school student to see the college teams and what opportunities are out there,” said Geoffrey Winship, Robotics Outreach Mentor for Embry-Riddle.
This will be Embry-Riddle’s second consecutive year hosting the VEX Championship, and allows Embry-Riddle to increase its role as a state leader in STEM education by increasing K-12 interest in technology driven fields.
“Our university is committed to this community. We are a part of it as much as it is a part of us,” said Winship. “The structure of this event allows the college student in attendance to visit with the high school teams and pass on their knowledge.”
The event will take place at the Embry-Riddle Activity Center and is free and open to the public. Concessions will be available.
MEDIA CONTACT: Jason Kadah, Communications Director, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Ariz.; Office (928) 777-6731; jason.kadah@erau.edu.
About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 80 baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts & Sciences, Aviation, Business, Engineering and Security & Intelligence. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz.; online; and through the Worldwide Campus with more than 125 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu, follow us on Twitter (@EmbryRiddle) and facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity, and find expert videos at YouTube.com/EmbryRiddleUniv. For more about the Prescott Campus, follow on Twitter at @ERAU_Prescott and atfacebook.com/ERAUPrescott.
Embry-Riddle to Host VEX Robotics State Championship on Mar. 2 and 3
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Tickets are available at www.ycpac.com for the Kathy Mattea & Suzy Bogguss concert, which is coming up on March 2 at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center. If you're not familiar with their musical careers, here's some background from YCPAC. ![]()
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Prescott, Arizona (2/2/2023) – Two stars, no waiting. When longtime friends and Country music artists combine their impressive set lists and their love of live performance, everybody in the audience wins. Yavapai College Performing Arts Center invites you to join Country music hitmakers Kathy Mattea & Suzy Bogguss for a rousing and memorable ‘Together at Last’ performance, Thursday night, March 2 at 7 p.m. ![]()
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Two country music legends, with three Grammy awards between them, bring their prodigious talents, their solo hits, and their on-stage chemistry to the stage in ‘Together at Last.’ Friends since their early days in Nashville, Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss have each carved out careers in popular music with country chart hits spanning two decades. Kathy has had more than 30 singles in Billboard Magazine’s Hot Country Songs Charts, including “Goin’ Gone,” “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses,” and “Come From the Heart.” She won Grammy Awards for her 1990 single “Where’ve You Been?” and her 1993 Christmas Album Good News. Bogguss found stardom with her platinum-selling album Aces, which featured four hit singles: the title track, “Someday Soon,” “Outbound Plane,” and “Letting Go.” She won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Singer award in 1989 and the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award in 1992. ![]()
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Their busy solo careers allowed Kathy and Suzy few opportunities to collaborate musically, although they did perform a Grammy-nominated cover of “Teach Your Children” back in 1994. Their fans have clamored for a joint tour like this for years. And now, sporting new material developed for the tour, armed with two careers worth of stories and more hits than they can fit, Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss are together at last.![]()
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Tickets for Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss start at $32. Yavapai College Performing Arts Center is located at 1100 E. Sheldon Street, in Prescott. The YCPAC Ticket Office is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.; and Thursdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. For reservations or more information, please call: (928) 776.2000 or visit us online at: www.ycpac.com.![]()
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