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From here...: High School student Max Gordin phoenix airport and car rental (far right) of Detroit, phoenix airport and car rental launches a disk with his team's project as part of the Operation Catapult program Tuesday on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Have shower, will travel: High school student Sean Gardner of Dallas maintains the pressure of a handmade shower as fellow student, Jacob Norman of Oxnard, Calif., rinses off his soap suds with the contraption Tuesday on the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology campus.
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Among them is Lucas Peoples, a student at Terre Haute South Vigo High School, who helped develop a Walk-on-Water device called Fish Feed. It included two wooden, not-so-airtight skis, outriggers made of PVC pipe and a hinged fishtail for propulsion.
Hartung also has enjoyed his time at Operation Catapult, including a field trip to Marathon Petroleum in Robinson, Ill. Everyone here is great, he said. I ve learned engineering takes a lot more writing than you would think.
Things got a little testy at times as they quickly assembled their contraption, but in the end, it worked, and Norman showered using water from Speed Lake. Don t drink the water, said Patsy Brackin, director of Operation Catapult.
At Operation Catapult, I m getting an experience at Rose and trying to figure out if it s the right school for me, she said. She s also learning a new programming language and she s getting experience working on a team.
Brackin said the goal of the program is to encourage students interest in science, engineering and mathematics. Students get hands-on experience working with Rose-Hulman faculty and they get to use Rose-Hulman facilities.
Vigo County is one of 26 Indiana counties yet to submit an assessment study, the first step in a process used to determine tax bills payable in 2013, according to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
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Or so members of the Board of Public Works and Safety may be thinking after they learned Monday that the city s two gasoline-electric hybrid buses, phoenix airport and car rental purchased with federal stimulus money two years ago, have been maintenance nightmares.
Now Anzure Dynamics, the Canada-based company that made the buses, has filed for bankruptcy protection, meaning phoenix airport and car rental future repairs to the buses will likely be at the city s expense, said Brad Miller, Terre Haute s transportation director.
phoenix airport and car rental The buses were painted red and green to symbolize the transition from the conventional buses to new green technology. But they were never on the road long enough to accomplish that, Miller told the Board of Public Works and Safety Monday.
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Now the city is looking at buying another hybrid bus. But this one will be manufactured by Gillig, a California-based company. Miller expects this bus to be much more reliable than the two current buses have been.
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Azure Dynamics remains in business, but has laid off 120 of 160 employees and closed operations in Michigan, Massachusetts and the United Kingdom. Company officials have said they are optimistic they can rebuild the business, which traded on the Toronto stock exchange and was formed in 2008. It filed for bankruptcy protection in March.