Clovis students win honors at Lego League competition

Liliana Castillo In five minutes, the 11 Gifted and Talented students from the Arts Academy at Bella Vista designed a diagram of the human heart with a clot inside. But it was their level-headed, cooperative and clear ability to explain the diagram that won them first place in Gracious Professionalism at the New Mexico First […]

Wednesday morning briefing: New beginnings, robot cash and the man who dared “Imagine”

Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing. Hats off There are 297 candidates for graduation at Eastern New Mexico University’s 119th Commencement Convocation 10 a.m. on Saturday in Greyhound Arena. The keynote speaker is Kenwyn Cradock, assistant professor of biology.

Clovis students’ robot takes third in competition

CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis High junior Rosstin Ahmadian, with the GEAR UP program, watches Tuesday as the class robot picks up a beach ball, one of many tasks the robot can perform. By Eric Butler: Freedom New Mexico Though making their first trip to the annual Boosting Engineering Science and Technology competition in […]

Ticket feature: Monster truck show features robots, races

Courtesy photo Bounty Hunter will be one of many trucks featured at this weekend’s Kicker Monster Truck Show. Freedom New Mexico The Curry County Fairgrounds will host races, robot battles and plenty of noise during this weekend’s Kicker Monster Truck Show. The event is scheduled Friday and Saturday with 7:30 p.m. shows both nights. The […]

Robot helps Cannon team with bank incident

By Tonya Garner: CNJ Staff Writer Like a scene from a science fiction movie, a robot rolled into the Hilltop Plaza branch of the New Mexico Bank & Trust on Friday. The robot — the REMOTECH F6 Remote Control Transport, or RCT — was brought onto the bank robbery scene to determine if the suspicious […]