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Ten Chimneys Foundation hosts director and author Sheldon Epps On Sunday, December 11, 2022, Ten Chimneys Foundation hosted a conversation with director and author Sheldon Epps at the Milwaukee County Historical Society, 910 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Epps discussed his life and journey as told in his book,"My Own Directions, A Black Man's Journey in American Theatre," highlights the successes and challenges of being the one, often the only, black on a project. From his life in the theater, having directed numerous plays around the US, in London, and on Broadway, he conceived and directed both the Duke Ellington musical, Play On (which received three Tony Award nominations) and the highly acclaimed musical revue, Blues in the Night (also nominated for a Tony Award), and has directed the plays Unchain My Heart, Purlie, Showtune, Blue, The Importance of Being Earnest, Les Photo by Yvonne Kemp Liaisons of Dangereuses, and As Bees In Honey Drown, among others. On the small screen, Sheldon directed many episodes of great hit shows of the 1990s and 2000s (Everyone Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friends, Sister/Sister, Girlfriends and more) and the current Netflix success, The Upshaws. He served as Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse for two decades and is currently Senior Artistic Advisor for Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. Pictured at the event (from left) are Celeste Gore, Cecelia Gore, Randy Bryant, Sheldon Epps, Tosha Freeman, Florida Perry-Smith and Adrienne Waters.
North Division High School competes in first-ever RoboFest Hackathon
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On Thursday, December 8, 2022, North Division Community High School in partnership with Milwaukee Robotics Academy (The Academy) hosted the first annual RoboFest Hackathon. Thirty North Division scholars (grades 9-12) received four hours of engineering design education at Messmer Preparatory School, 3027 N. Fratney St. The mid-day field trip was supported by NDHS Alumni Association, school staff, and fourteen Academy volunteers in Science, Technology, Arts, and Math (STEAM) professions across Milwaukee’s Fortune 500 firms.
athon-style" competition, where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time.
The Academy was founded in 2021 with the mission to deliver hands-on learning through “Robotics” and most importantly, it allowed North students a peek into what it could be like to start a North Division Robotics team in 2023. The collective goal is that this experience will give North students the inspiration that physics, science communication, project management, manufacturing, engineering design, programming, and robotics can become a routine The goal of the event is to inspire and kick- (and fun) part of their curriculum. For more instart the career of future mechanical engineers, formation on The Academy visit their website at industrial designers, computer scientists, and https://www.milwaukeeroboticsacademy.org. entrepreneurs in the North Division student body. In four hours, North scholars built, tested, and improved on 50+ prototypes in a "hackAn HTGroup, LLC Publication
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