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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Competitive Robotic Team from Ballwin, Wildwood Visits Seniors

As part of preparing for a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotic competition to be held next month, local middle school students are demonstrating and interacting with senior citizens in West St. Louis and St. Charles counties.

Some Assembly Required—a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team of middle school students from Ballwin and Wildwood—recently visited with residents of Lutheran Senior Services' (LSS) Meramec Bluffs Senior Living Community in Ballwin. FIRST LEGO League is part of the FIRST Robotics group, which organizes robotics competitions to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. FLL tournament teams are judged in four areas: robot design and programming, robot game performance, research project presentation and teamwork (core values).  Some Assembly Required is comprised of students who attend Wildwood Middle School and Morgan Selvidge Middle School. They are preparing for a competition that will be held at St. Charles Community …

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Ballwin Government Center, City of Wildwood (in Eureka-Wildwood Patch), Lutheran Senior Services, and 2 more ›

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Rockwood Teacher Writes Fiction Novel

This Wildwood Middle School teacher and assistant band director at Eureka High School used writing to deal with her grandmother's fight with Alzheimer's.

Denise Dauw, a 1997 graduate of Marquette High School, has turned a difficult loss into the foundation for a new, young adult fiction:  If Music Be The Food Of Love. The story ties her experience of losing her grandmother to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease to music performance, family, romance and medicine. "In the final stages of her illness, talking to my grandmother didn't draw a response," Dauw said in a Rockwood School District announcement. "However, when I sang to her, she opened her eyes, turned to me and tried to speak. It was a special moment because she gave the gift of music to my mother, who in turn gave it to me.” While a Marquette student, Dauw was involved in numerous aspects of the fine arts program; from concert and …

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Marquette High School (in Chesterfield Patch), Rockwood School District -- Administrative Center (in Eureka-Wildwood Patch), Wildwood Middle School (in Eureka-Wildwood Patch), and 1 more ›

Maria Altrudo

8:46 am on Friday, May 17, 2013

Denise will be at 6 North Café on June 29, 2013 signing copies of "If Music Be The Food Of Love" http://ballwin-ellisville.patch.com/events/if-music-be-the-food-of-love   more ›

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