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Bobby Theisen Park receives new playground BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
Shoreview residents will be able to utilize a new playground at Bobby Theisen Park in the future after council unanimously approved a design proposed by St. Croix Recreation at a recent City Council meeting. The new playground is part of the Bobby Theisen Park redevelopment project. Parks and Recreation Director Steve Benoit said the reason Bobby Theisen did not have a playground was due to the park’s location.
“Bobby Theisen is the one park in Shoreview that does not have a dedicated playground,” he said. “The reason why is that it is adjacent to both Island Lake (Elementary) School and St. Odilia School. So, the feeling was those playgrounds are available for the community.” However, Benoit added that the school playgrounds are not always available for public use, specifically during the school year when recess is in session and over the summer when there are SEE PLAYGROUND, PAGE 12
Robotics team returning to world championships
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Shoreview and surrounding communities will hold various egg hunts in the upcoming weeks to celebrate Easter. For more information on when and where they are happening, see page 3.
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The latest award-winning robot built by Potential Energy is named Levi, aka Leviathan.
High School on Feb. 14 and 15, and the Potential Energy team took first place, earning an Inspire award and the Winning Alliance— Captain title. Next up, the team will head to Houston on for the FIRST Championship, which will be held April 16 through 19. This is the second year that Potential Energy has advanced to the world championship. SEE ROBOTICS TEAM, PAGE 2
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A team of eight students from Mounds View High School are headed to the FIRST Robotics World Championships for the second year in a row. The robotics team, Potential Energy, have been building robots together since 2021 as part of the program called High Tech Kids. Their interest in robotics dates back further than that; they first started “doing robotics” in elementary school. In addition to the technical challenges of fabricating a robot, the team says that their participation in the High Tech Kids program also requires them to take on public speaking and outreach work and encourage other young people to pursue STEM activities. The team—which meets at member James ChowdhuryDinsmoor’s house in North Oaks and is coached by his mom, Rumna, along with Steve Whalen—had been preparing for months to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge state championships. This year’s state competition was held at Burnsville
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