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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2,2012
‘Brother Wolf ’ returns
to North
Friday show sets stage for state conference
By Jennifer Sami
]sami@forsythnews.corn
f or those who missed the show's
run in the fall. North Forsyth High is
offering one more performance of
“Brother Wolf.”
The show, set for 7 p.m. Friday at
the school, will serve as a sendoff of
sorts for the 35-member cast and
crew before they head to the Georgia
State Thespian Conference next week.
The performance earned the school
first place for best one-act play at the
Georgia Theatre Conference in
October.
Based on "Beowulf,” the play fol¬
lows Preacher Brother Wolf as he bat¬
tles the evil Grin Dell and his mother
to save his mountain community.
“1 was just looking around for
something new and different and 1
happened to see it on a Web site,”
said Mary Hayes Ernst, director. "I
FROM 1A
Measure
The measure would reduce the subsi¬
dy to ‘ 9 million this year, $6 million in
2013 and $3 million in 2014.
Hamilton said the local phone compa¬
nies have lost customers to cell phone,
cable and other competitors. Still, there
are 10 firms in the state that have man¬
aged to stay relevant without the subsi
dy.
“There are other telecommunication
companies out there that aren’t asking
for this money, so obviously there’s a
business model out there that works,”
Hamilton said. “They don’t want to
compete with a company that’s being
subsidized by other companies, so we’re
trying to make this a fair competition.
"The market has changed dramatically
over the years ... we’re just saying these
rural telecommunications companies
need to change their business model to
reflect that."
Part of the problem is the way some of
the Tier 2 companies are reporting infor¬
mation.
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thought it was so interesting and so
different and so many of my students
here at North really identify with
bluegrass music and the storytelling
aspect."
The bluegrass music makes the
show unique and "it’s Wen a really,
really fun production," Ernst said.
The production is one of just 15
from around the state selected to per¬
form during the Georgia State
Thespian Conference, set for Feb. 9-11
in Columbus.
In addition to performing the one
act, more than half of the 41 North
Forsyth students attending the confer¬
ence will compete in a judged event,
including individual acting and sing¬
ing competitions.
Others will attend workshops to help
improve their craft.
“We’re very excited,” Ernst said.
Tickets for Friday night’s show are
$5 and available at the door.
line, the companies might install fiber
lines, which can provide support for
cable and other services. But the profit
made from the additional services is not
being reported as phone line earnings.
“We feel like that revenue is not being
considered in the equation,” Hamilton
said.
AT&T Spokeswoman Stephanie
Walker said the company supports the
measure “because it will end, once and
for all, the state subsidies that our cus¬
tomers pay to rural phone providers.”
“This subsidy fund has been misused
and should be sunset by the legislature,"
she said.
Hamilton noted there will be opposi¬
tion to his measure, largely from those
rural telecommunications companies
that stand to lose the subsidy.
He said they likely will appeal to leg¬
islators and ask them not to support the
measure “saying this is going to cost
them revenue.”
The local companies can try to pass
along the cost to consumers, but rates
are regulated by the PSC.
“My intension is not to hurt anybody,”
Hamilton said. “My intent with this leg¬
islation is to truly make it a fair, compet¬
itive situation and protect the consumer."
Young teams fare well
at robotics competition
By Jennifer Sami
|sami@forsythnews.com
Seven teams of stu¬
dents from Forsyth
County competed and
many placed — in the
recent annual First Lego
League State
Championship.
“It’s very involved,”
said Christi Phillips,
horizons teacher at Haw
Creek Elementary
School. “I’m sure we
spent over 150 hours
after school preparing
this, practicing with the
robot, researching, writ¬
ing scripts, building and
painting backdrops.
“And what’s fun is
these kids are so creative
in so many different
ways.”
All the hard work paid
off for Phillips’ team,
the Mean Green Helping
Machines, which earned
the Best Project Award.
The Haw Creek par¬
ent-led team, the
Baconeaters, received
the Best Robotics
Performance and Score
Award during the com¬
petition, held last week¬
end at Georgia Tech.
It was a huge victory
for Taylor Sobczak, a
fifth-grader on the
Baconeaters. His favor¬
ite part was the robot
runs, where students
worked to program
robots to perform certain
tasks.
“There’s a lot of
excitement because the
robot does its missions
on the table,” he said.
The theme for the
competition was Food
Factor, focusing on food
and food safety.
The teams were
judged on a research
project, their robots and
core values, because at
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eighth-grade level, it's a
friendly competition,
explained Phillips.
Seven of the 48 teams,
which had up to 10 stu¬
dents each, hailed from
Forsyth County.
In addition to the Haw
Creek teams, the Daves
Creek Elementary
Engineering Squad took
the Judges Award, while
a team of home
schooled students. Team
Super Awesome, won
the Inspiration award.
The Volunteer Award
went to James Trobaugh,
who heads the Forsyth
Alliance, which helps
guide schools in the
county to prepare them
for robotics competi¬
tions.
Radio Active Gummy
Bears from Lakeside
Middle, Sharon
Elementary’s
Cantaloupe-ateers and
Vickery Creek Middle’s
Revolutionary Lego
Vipers also took part.
The event is open to
middle school students,
as well as fourth- arid
fifth-graders.
With her fourth-grad¬
ers and other local ele¬
mentary teams placing
at the state level,
Phillips said the sky's
the limit for them in
middle school.
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“They say that Lego
building is one of the
highest forms of educa¬
tion tools you can have,”
she said. “It teaches log¬
ical problem solving,
creative problem solv¬
ing, it teaches collabora¬
tive or team workers, it
helps with research
skills”
In preparation,
Phillips said her students
met with an alternative
pesticide company,
which “gave us some
really good ideas on his
alternatives to pesticides
and how to get those out
into the community."
The students also met
with a doctor, who
taught them about the
effects of toxins to the
human body.
Students in the parent
led Haw Creek team
“visited Publix and they
went to a farm where
they grew organic food,”
explained Taylor
Sobczak’s father,
Martin.
“It’s gratifying to me
that they get these
opportunities,” he said.
“It’s instilling science
and technology at the
grassroots level.”
Next up on the local
robotics radar is the
regional high school
competition in March.