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Vol. 22 Issue No. 20
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United States and Pacific Island leaders hold first U.S.-Pacific summit and agree to partnership By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press September 29, 2022 Washington D.C.—On September 29, 2022, the United States and fourteen Pacific Island nations announced the successful conclusion of the firstever U.S.-Pacific Islands Summit held at the White House in Washington D.C. on September 28 and 29, 2022. “Forged by shared history, sacrifice, and values, our partnership has contributed to prosperity, peace, and security in the Pacific Islands, the United States, and the world for generations. Today,
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Pohnpei students to represent Micronesia in International Robotics Championship a series of tasks in the “Carbon Capture Challenge,” a game built around A team of students from Pohnpei’s largest public high the tournament’s central theme of school is headed to Switzerland. These students represent cooperatively addressing climate change. the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the FIRST Global International robotics challenge. The PICS team has been carefully designing, building, and testing a robot The five students from Pohnpei Island Central School to navigate this challenge, which will (PICS), the island’s oldest public high school, will compete involve scooping up “Carbon Element” against robotics teams from 180 countries around the balls, and launching them through the air world. This will be the first team to represent the FSM into a “Sink” to store the captured carbon. at an international robotics competition, since Yap State Points are awarded throughout different carried the Micronesian flag at the inaugural FIRST Global stages of the game, and weighted by skill competition, held in Washington, DC in 2017. and technical achievement. Habele
In the Olympics-style competition, students from PICS will collaborate with teams from other nations to complete
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