Kiwanis Club of Miami helps fund McMillan MS robotics team trip
The Howard D. McMillan Middle School robotics teams from Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) recently traveled to Dallas, TX, to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship thanks to the generosity of the Kiwanis Club of Miami.
“This is exactly the type of function we get involved in,” said Bruce Ross, president of the 102-year Kiwanis Club of Miami, one of South Florida’s most active community service organizations. “We’re so happy you qualified for this international competition in Dallas that we wanted to help you with this journey.”
With that, Ross, Kiwanis treasurer Chuck Little and Kiwanis secretary Diana Morrell unwrapped a surprise oversized check for $6,000 that drew audible gasps from members of the robotics program.
The check topped off the year-around fundraising efforts of the West Kendall school and enabled it to send four four-person teams to compete, including the top team in Florida comprised of Ellis Lee, Rowan Liro, Andrew Rothen and Sirius Harmon. In addition, another four members of the program traveled with the competitors.
“We were so excited to welcome the Kiwanis Club of Miami,” said McMillan Middle School principal Dr. Justin Koren. “This was an incredible opportunity for 20 of our students to travel to Dallas for the World Championship. Without a doubt, this is another reason Howard D. McMillan Middle School is the best choice for education.”
Following the check presentation, members of the robotics teams demonstrated their robots to the Kiwanis officials and answered questions from the media.
As a way of saying “thank you” to the Kiwanis Club of Miami, the McMillan robotics teams placed Kiwanis International logos on their robots.
“What the Kiwanis Club of Miami has done is simply fantastic,” said robotics coach Dale Adamson. “Not only did it allow us to send more teams that qualified but overall showed the students that people in the community care. That is an invaluable lesson that will stick with them forever.”
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