Official Website of the Lindblom Alumni Association: A 1A-1D Design

A Note from Eagles Creating Change:

Dear Alumni Members,

First off I would like to thank the entire Alumni family for
allowing ECC to participate in the Alumni Meeting on Saturday, April
12 2008. It was a wonderful experience to meet people that have
traveled theough Lindblom and created a path of high achievement
which all aspiring eagles can look up to. This year ECC is
sponsoring the Y-Me Breast Cancer walk located at Grant Park on
Saturday, May 11 2008. We need your help to reach this years
fundraising goal of $2,000. ECC is currently selling pink wrist
bands at a price of $5.00 for adults and $2.00 for students. Any
members that would like to contribute in that way can come to the
school and purchase them through the counseling office. Another way
that alumni members can support ECC in our fight against Breast
cancer is by following the link below to register for the 1 to 3
mile Breast Cancer walk on Saturday, May 11th or making a donation.
I want to thank the alumni beforehand for recieving ECC in such a
warm and supportive manner and I look forward to building new
relations with ALA.

http://main.y-me.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=1241&team_id=65341

Sincerely
Tinia Harris
ECC Founder
LMSA C/O 2009
4/13/2008

Needed for Robotics Team: Engineers and Computer Programmers

posted 01.12.07

Lindblom's award-winning robotics team is back up and ready to go. We just learned this past Saturday of the specifications for this year's competition. Now the students have six weeks to construct a robot that will compete.

A little background: Last year, Lindblom freshmen only team, competed in two regional competitions, one at UIC and one in Milwaukee. In the Milwaukee Regional, our team, working with two high schools in Michigan, placed second overall! It was an outstanding accomplishment for our young team.

Since we are ramping up again, I want to put out the call for any mechanical or electrical engineers who would be able to work with/guide our students as they construct and fine-tune their robot. In addition, we could use some help from someone who is well versed in the "C" computer language. I'm not sure if this is C++ or something more broad.

Our students will be working on Saturday mornings and after school. If any of you could help at any time, either on Saturdays or certain days after school, that would be wonderful.

Again, thank you for your help. If you think you could give of your time, please let me know!

Alan
01.08.07
(via Lindblom Discussion Group)

Electric Eagles Bring Home Second Place Trophy

posted 04.03.06

Hello all,

The Electric Eagles, Lindblom Math & Science’s robotics team, came away with some hardware from this past weekend’s Milwaukee Regional Competition with robotics’ teams from seven states.

The Electric Eagles partnered with two schools from Wisconsin to form an alliance that took on seven other alliances in a dramatic competition. Napoleon, our robot! - named for his short stature as well as his great power and tenacity - brought home the alliance’s second place trophy!

There are so many people to thank, for we could not have taken part in this four-day event had it not been for many wonderful supporters. And I want to thank them all:

First, our students who built and drove the robot (in alphabetical order): Gamaliel Alarcon, Sharonda Barr, Jonathan Bass, William Carey, Chaz Donalson, Robin Hall, Carl Hicks, Adam Jiminez, Sacha Sims, and Tynisha Sudberry. Congrats! on your great run!

Next, we had great help from some students from IIT who came in and worked with our students on Saturdays: Adam Bain, James Pierce, Sam Solomon and Aleksandr Shnayder.

Also, we would be remiss if we did not mention that - at these competitions - there is an incredible amount of cooperation among teams. Our team wants to recognize the great help of Al Skierkiewicz, of WTTW, who works with Rolling Meadows High Schools’ Wildstang team that won the competition. His and their friendship and guidance was invaluable.

In addition to coach Hortense Brice who worked incredible hours with the students and organized our team, there were other faculty who helped a great deal with either chaperoning or working with the students on different aspects of the competition. Nathan Diamond designed the logo and worked on the Electric Eagles’ website. If you go to the site, you can see pictures of students building Napoleon. Danna Dotson accompanied Ms. Brice and team to Milwaukee from Wednesday - Saturday night. John Woods helped to program the robot’s movements.

Our students and staff had some outside help as well: Tinicko and Jennifer Griffin, who work at Daley Academy, spent many hours working with the team on Saturdays and offered their time in Milwaukee as well. Perhaps our greatest shout out goes to Tom Piette, the students’ mentor from Segway of Chicago where he is Vice-President of Sales, who gave so much time with our students and discovered not only how much he likes working on robots, but also how much fun our students can be!

Special thanks goes to two alumni: Larry McCune designed and donated Lindblom shirts and Electric Eagles’ caps. Jackie Moore is a FIRST senior mentor and won the mentoring award in Milwaukee for her work with our team. In addition, she brought the other Chicago team to Milwaukee! She’s the best!

Our greatest thanks goes to those who made our trip to Milwaukee possible! Had it not been for the generous financial support of the following companies and individuals, we would not have been able to make the trip:

Lindblom Alumni Association
CBR Consulting (Chenita Lawson)
Marquette Bank (Thom Bamford)
NASA
USAFIRST
Alumni: Tasha Clopton, Songie Milhouse